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Worth knowingGoogle · Changelog· 2 days ago

Google promotions can no longer include dates in the title

What they said

“Redemption dates: Don’t include dates in any format.”

In plain English

Google has updated its rules for Merchant Center promotions. Promotion titles must not include redemption dates in any format; the dates go in the promotion's own date fields instead. The only exception is a short month name, such as "Jan".

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Worth knowingShopify

Shopify customer accounts now show store credit and product recommendations

When customers sign in to their account on your store, their store credit balance now shows at the top of every account page. Signed-in customers who haven't ordered yet also see product recommendations from your catalogue, chosen by Shopify based on what it knows about their preferences.

3 days ago · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingKlaviyo

Klaviyo's AI assistant Composer is out of preview and available to every account

Klaviyo's AI assistant, Composer, is now out of preview. Klaviyo says it can answer harder questions across your data, run analyses and audits on a schedule, and turn workflows that work into reusable skills. You can open it from a bar that appears throughout Klaviyo.

13 Oct · For marketers, founders
Worth knowingShopify

You can now add your own notes to Shopify Analytics charts

You can now add your own annotations to time-series reports in Shopify Analytics. Each note can have a title, description, date or date range and a type, so you can mark things like a campaign launch, an influencer post, a supplier change or a promotion right on the chart.

1 Oct · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingShopify

Stores that don't use Shopify Payments can now appear on Shop

Until now, only stores using Shopify Payments could appear on Shop, Shopify's shopping app and Shop.com. Stores using other payment providers can now appear too, as long as they meet Shop's eligibility requirements. Shopify has also updated those requirements for every store.

5 days ago · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingKlaviyo

Klaviyo: switch off click tracking and see every channel in one dashboard

You can now turn off email click tracking for your whole account, for certain people, or for individual links. The old SMS dashboard now shows email, SMS, WhatsApp and push together in one view. SMS campaigns can also wait until a customer's local quiet hours are over before sending.

5 Oct · For marketers
Worth knowingShopify

Shopify Canvas lets you design your store by chatting with Sidekick

Canvas is a new way to design your Shopify store. You see every page of your store laid out together, click to edit anything, or ask Sidekick, Shopify's AI assistant, to make changes for you. You'll find it under Online Store > Themes, where you can start a new theme or duplicate an existing one into Canvas.

1 Oct · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingShopify

Shopify changed how it counts sessions, so your conversion rate may have moved

From 21 September 2026, Shopify Analytics counts sessions differently. It now focuses on human visitors and classifies bot traffic more consistently, and it keeps genuine shopper journeys that don't include a normal pageview. Session-based numbers like conversion rate will look different, but orders, sales and customer counts aren't affected.

21 Sept · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingKlaviyo

Klaviyo can now tailor flow texts to each shopper, and test them for you

Klaviyo has added a feature that uses AI to adjust the tone and product names in the SMS and RCS messages your flows send, based on how each shopper engages. Each version is automatically A/B tested against your original copy. Separately, email flows can now show or hide blocks and add content using details from the event that started the flow, with no code.

6 days ago · For marketers
FYIKlaviyo

Klaviyo sign-up forms can now ask for email tracking consent

Klaviyo sign-up forms can now collect explicit marketing consent and email tracking consent from new subscribers. Klaviyo says the aim is to keep measuring email engagement while staying compliant with EU privacy rules.

14 Oct · For marketers
Worth knowingShopify

Shopify Rollouts can now schedule and A/B test discounts

You can now add discounts to Rollouts, Shopify's built-in tool for scheduling and testing store changes. That means you can show a new offer to part of your online store traffic, compare it against your current offer using conversion results, or launch a discount alongside theme and checkout changes in one go.

2 Oct · For founders, marketers
Worth knowingTrustpilot

Trustpilot adds product review pages, AI search insights and QR code reviews

Trustpilot's September release adds product review pages, a way to group product variants under one rating, printable QR codes for collecting reviews, and AI Search Market Insights, which shows how often AI tools cite your Trustpilot profile compared with competitors.

24 Sept · For marketers, founders
Action neededGoogle

Google Shopping will reject product images smaller than 500 x 500 pixels

From 31 January 2027, Google wants every product image in Merchant Center to be at least 500 x 500 pixels. Until then the old minimums still work: 100 x 100, or 250 x 250 for clothing. Google has been showing warnings on smaller images since July 2026.

21 Aug · For founders, marketers, ops78 days left