E-Commerce Trends

2018 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report Findings

Rising Competition Among Key Findings In Sidecar’s 2018 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report

Google Shopping’s swift expansion and heightening competition raises new questions. We analyzed e-commerce data across a sample of 300-plus U.S. retailer websites to find answers and reveal the defi...

Kristin Maranki

Top 5 AI-Powered Retail Trends You Should Care About

E-commerce retail is abuzz about artificial intelligence (AI), and for good reason: Revenue generated from the direct and indirect application of AI software will grow from $1.38 billion in 2016 to $5...

Janelle Kozyra

Voice Search in Retail: Evolving the Customer Experience

Voice search stands to live at the heart of how retail marketers guide the customer experience into the future.
Behind every voice query lies data riper with real-time intent and context than ...

Steve Tutelman

Prepare for the Discovery-Driven, Visual-Obsessed Shopper This Holiday

Retail marketers often use “visual search” and “visual discovery” interchangeably to refer to the use of images and videos to find products. But as the visual world evolves, these terms are di...

Steve Tutelman

The Future of Search for Retail Marketers? Google Shopping Ads

Google Shopping ads have never been so conspicuous to consumers — nor so successful for retailers.
Search for "black sunglasses," and it's hard to miss the Google Shopping ads monopolizing th...

Andre Golsorkhi

Sidecar’s 2017 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report Reveals New Growth Metrics

Google is constantly giving Google Shopping ads more real estate on its SERP. And new retailers are joining the party -- or upping their Shopping investments -- every day.

With such rapi...

Mike Perekupka