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Amazon Listing Changes Are Rewriting Your Product Data: Here’s What to Track

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  Amazon is changing how product information appears on its listings. Alongside a new 75-character title limit and a separate Item Highlights field, some listings now display a product provenance tag below the brand name. Amazon is also updating its product bundling policy, with new requirements scheduled to take effect on January 11, 2027. For ecommerce businesses tracking large catalogs, each update adds a field to watch. A title revision, a new provenance label, or a change in bundle listings can alter how a product is represented across a marketplace. The challenge is keeping these details organised across hundreds or thousands of ASINs, not checking listings one by one. Amazon Listing Updates at a Glance: What Changed and Which Data Field It Affects Update What's changing? Data fields to capture Product titles A 75-character title limit for most categories, with a separate Item Highlights field Title versions, Item Highlights, product attributes Provenance tags A sourcing-rel...

Why Traditional Reddit Scrapers Are Failing (And How TagX’s API-Based Data Extraction Helps)

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Reddit has become a valuable source of public discussions about products, brands, customer experiences, and industry trends. Businesses use these conversations for social listening, customer feedback analysis, and market research, often relying on automated data collection to track discussions at scale. However, changes to Reddit's data access rules can disrupt collection methods that have worked for years. For teams depending on Reddit posts and comments, the challenge is maintaining a consistent, structured data pipeline as access requirements evolve. THE SHORT ANSWER Reddit's changes to unauthenticated .json endpoints have disrupted traditional collection workflows. API-based extraction can help teams manage structured Reddit data more efficiently, provided the access method and intended use comply with Reddit's requirements. Why Reddit Scrapers That Used the JSON Trick Stopped Working For years, developers could append .json to certain Reddit URLs to retrieve structured...

How a News API Powers Risk Insights for Proactive Due Diligence

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  A supplier clears screening in January. In March, a regulator opens an inquiry. In May, the CEO resigns. In August, a local paper reports unpaid salaries at one of its plants. The company's name never changed. Its risk profile changed four times. This is the weak spot in most due diligence. A report is accurate on the day it is signed off, and then it starts to age. The real question isn't " What do we know about this company? " It is " What has changed since we last looked? " A News API helps answer that. It turns the constant flow of global news into structured data that your monitoring systems can use. Why One-Time Checks Leave You Exposed Most due diligence is tied to a milestone, such as onboarding a vendor, signing a partner, backing an investment or renewing a contract. At each point, someone searches, reads and documents. Then the report is filed, and nobody is watching. This creates three problems: Manual searches don't scale - Checking hund...