AI Doesn’t See Your Org Chart. It Sees Your Signals.
Once AI moves from finding information to comparing products, making recommendations and facilitating actions, GEO can no longer belong exclusively to SEO, content or ecommerce. Every team that creates a signal the agent can use influences the outcome. This is Part 8 of an 8-part deep… Read More
Product content & syndication Insight
Generative engine optimization for product data: what your PIM controls
Generative engine optimization (GEO) for products depends on product data. The signals your PIM controls, why consistency matters and a five-point check for your catalog. Read More
From Answers to Actions: What Changed in GEO
When this series began, the goal was getting into the answer. Less than a year later, the answer is becoming an intermediate step. AI agents increasingly compare, decide and help shoppers act. This is Part 7 of an 8-part deep dive series exploring how brands win when search… Read More
What’s New in Salsify: AI Agents, Agentic Discovery, and a Bigger Network
Salsify has shipped a dense run of updates this quarter, and the throughline across nearly all of them is the same one we’ve been tracking for a while now: product data has to serve two audiences at once, the human shopper scanning a page and the AI agent summarizing… Read More
The Sell Sheet Bottleneck Nobody Talks About, and How Catalog Sites Fixes It
For years, a “product catalog” meant a PDF, or worse, a spreadsheet attached to an email. Someone would ask for updated product information, wait for a reply, download a file, and hope it was the current version. Multiply that across dozens of brands, hundreds of SKUs, and every internal… Read More
Product content & syndication Insight
What Actually Makes a Product Image Convert?
For most of digital commerce’s history, “Is this a good product image?” was answered by whoever had the most seniority in the room. Brand managers had taste. Creative directors had instincts. Nobody had a number, so nothing shipped against a standard. It shipped against an opinion. That’s starting… Read More
Your DAM and Your PIM Are Probably Not Talking. Here’s Why That Costs You.
A product manager updates a spec sheet in the PIM. Three weeks later, the product image on the retailer site still shows the old packaging. Nobody did anything wrong. The two systems that should have kept each other in sync simply never had a conversation. This happens constantly,… Read More
Digital shelf & retail media Insight
Live Shopping and Influencer Buys Are Declining. Fundamentals Are Back.
For the last few years, the advice to brands was consistent: get on social, find the right influencers, chase the viral moment. Salsify’s newest consumer research suggests that advice is starting to run out of road. According to Salsify’s 2026 Consumer Research report, the… Read More
What Product Data Teams are Really Dealing With
At this year’s GS1 Connect 2026 in Las Vegas, Sitation surveyed product data and supply chain professionals to take the temperature on master data management. Taking a look at the challenges, the team dynamics, the tools, and the state of AI adoption, the results paint a clear picture: the… Read More
Digital shelf & retail media Insight
Shoppers Are Using AI to Shop. They Still Don’t Trust It Alone.
A shopper asks ChatGPT what blender to buy. It gives a confident answer. Then, more often than not, that same shopper opens a browser tab and checks the product page anyway. That habit, adopt the AI tool, then verify with something else, is the clearest signal in Salsify’s… Read More
