Instagram rolls out shoppable posts for more merchants (FB)

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Merchants using BigCommerce, an e-commerce platform with 50,000 small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), 2,000 mid-market businesses, and 25 Fortune 1000 companies, can now create shoppable posts on Instagram, TechCrunch reports. Shoppable posts allow merchants to tag […]

Amazon has launched a shoppable social network called Spark — here’s how it works

Shona Ghosh/Amazon Amazon would really like you to buy more stuff, ideally through Amazon. The company has launched Amazon Spark, an Instagram-style shoppable feed that appears inside the Amazon app to showcase products. We first saw Spark on TechCrunch. The experience is similar to scrolling through your Instagram feed, except in this case everything is […]

Google begins showing Pinterest-like shoppable photos in image search

Google is starting to turn its handy image search tool into a way to shop. In some instances, tapping on an image result will now pull up a shoppable list of products featured inside the photo. So if, for example, you’re looking at a picture of a model wearing sunglasses and holding a handbag, Google […]