The Channel3 Blog
Latest news, updates, and insights from the team.
I Tested Whether AI Can Actually Sell Your Products. Mostly, It Can't.
I shopped the way my generation does, by asking AI. It got products wrong, dead, and missing. Here's why your brand keeps losing the sale, and how to fix it.
AI Shopping Visibility: How to Track When ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity Recommend Your Products
See when AI assistants recommend your products, find the data gaps that keep you out of answers, and fix them — a guide to tracking AI shopping visibility.
How to Search Products by Color with the Channel3 API (Color Filters, Now in Beta)
Add one or more hex colors to your Channel3 POST /v1/search call to get products that match. How color filters work, with examples. Live in beta.
Google's Conversational Attributes, Explained — and How to Get AI-Ready Product Data Fast
Google added conversational attributes to Merchant Center so AI can understand your products. Here are the six new fields, why they matter, and how to get AI-ready product data in minutes.
I Tested Every Product Data API So You Don't Have To
My first week as a Channel3 intern, Alex handed me a task: figure out why other APIs don't work for AI shopping agents. Here's my full research breakdown — and why Channel3 wins.
Channel3 recognized in the Awin Power 100
Channel3 named to the Awin Power 100 after competition from over one million partners—commended for value and innovation among the world’s most innovative affiliate partners.
Add product search to your AI agent with the Channel3 MCP
The Channel3 MCP gives your AI agents real-time access to tens of millions of products. Get started in under a minute.
Building with a product search API: a developer's guide
How to integrate real-time product search into your app. Compare approaches and get started with a unified product search API.
AI shopping and product discovery: what's changing
How AI is changing the way people discover products. From conversational search to agentic shopping and why product data matters.
How to earn commission with affiliate product data
Monetize your AI or app with product recommendations. Use affiliate-ready product data to earn commission on sales you drive.
How to build a shopping AI agent that finds real products
Step-by-step guide to building an AI agent that can search and recommend real products with live prices and affiliate links.
Why real-time product data matters for AI and apps
Stale product data breaks trust. Learn why real-time prices, availability, and catalog updates are essential for AI shopping and recommendations.
Semantic product search: beyond keyword matching
How semantic search understands intent and returns better product results. Compare keyword vs. semantic product search for your app.
How to add product recommendations to your app
Integrate product recommendations into any app: step-by-step with filters, limits, and optional image search. Use the Channel3 SDK or API.
Product catalog API for e-commerce and AI: what to look for
Evaluate product catalog APIs for e-commerce and AI use cases. Coverage, freshness, search quality, and monetization.
Channel3 raises $6M to build a database of every product on the internet
Humans shop on Google; AIs shop on Channel3. We're excited to announce our $6M seed round led by Matrix Partners.
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