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Automation

New Social Caption Generator Uses AI to Help Sellers Post More Easily

eBay sellers now have a new tool to make social sharing easier, all powered by AI.

By: eBay News Team
Machine Learning

eBay’s first Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov Recognized in Insider’s AI 100 List

Nitzan’s work ensures that eBay can magically and responsibly deliver AI-powered experiences.

By: eBay News Team
Machine Learning

eBay Exec on How Artificial Intelligence Will Bring a ‘Paradigm Shift’ to Ecommerce

Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov predicts how AI will transform the online shopping experience.

By: eBay News Team
Advertising

Expanding the eBay Ads Portfolio with Promoted Listings Express

Sellers can now promote their auction listings on eBay.

By: Courtney Mayeda and Brendan Cleary
User Experience

Faster Shipping Speeds for Cross-Border Orders

eBay is making it easier for our customers to ship items faster and know when their items will arrive.

By: Kunal Goel, Senior Product Manager, Technical
Shipping Signals Image with Green Shopping Icons
User Experience

Simplifying Shipping Signals on eBay

eBay is making it easier for our customers to know when their items will arrive with the new streamlined interface.

By: Shuja Rahman, Director of Product Management
Advertising

eBay's Enhanced Advertising Dashboard

This upgrade to the Advertising dashboard enables sellers to easily check their Promoted Listings performance and leverage valuable insights to scale their businesses.

By: Licy Ambrose, Gokulnath Palanivel and Courtney Mayeda

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User Experience

New Sellers: Getting Started on eBay is Now Even Easier

eBay’s new seller registration process enables anyone to start selling on our modern marketplace with all the necessary tools to reach customers around the world.

By: Anand Ramasubramanian and Shikha Khanna
Advertising

Introducing eBay's Automated Promoted Listings Campaigns

Sellers can now use rule-based technologies to both automate how they promote new listings and adjust their ad rates to stay competitive.

By: Courtney Mayeda, Lead Product Manager
User Experience

eBay Introduces Its New Seamless Unified Listing Experience

The new unified listing experience offers an intuitive and cohesive design across all platforms, simplifying the listing flow and enhancing seller benefits.

By: Harry Temkin and Vivian Gledhill
User Experience

Consumer Sellers: Getting Paid on eBay Just Got Easier

eBay is expanding its management of payments to consumer sellers over the next year.

By: Ragesh Chettiary, Lead Product Manager, Payments
User Experience

eBay’s Offers to Buyers Feature Hits $1B GMV

Offers to Buyers reaches new milestone this month.

By: Harry Temkin and Parin Jogani
Mobile

Introducing QR Codes for eBay Shipping Labels

With our new QR codes feature, sellers will no longer need a printer to use eBay shipping labels.

By: Manuela Misani and Stephan Kraus
Mobile

Expanding the eBay Stores Experience to Our Mobile App

The eBay Stores experience is now available on our mobile app for Android and iOS.

By: Minh Tran-Lee, Senior Manager, Product Marketing
User Experience

Introducing eBay’s New Time Away Feature to Help Sellers Manage Selling on eBay While on a Break

Time Away is now available to all Sellers and automatically updates the shipping date to make the experience more seamless.

By: Vikram Shandilya, Senior Technical Product Manager
Mobile

eBay Partners with Google Assistant to Bring Voice Control to eBay’s Android App

A new partnership launches voice control capabilities on our marketplace to meet the needs of our customers by creating a more seamless, modern experience.

By: Evan Thomas
Search Science

eBay Helps Buyers More Easily Discover Competitively Priced Items

eBay recently launched a new feature that helps buyers find things easily on the Search page by highlighting competitively priced items from trusted sellers.

By: Prerna Dubey and Manoj Kannadasan
Mobile

eBay Motors: Accelerating With Flutter™

The UI software development kit enables a consistent user experience across iOS and Android.

By: Corey Sprague and Larry McKenzie
User Experience

eBay Virtual Tracking Number Now Live in the UK and Australia

eBay’s unique code flows through Royal Mail and Australia Post networks, automating provision of eligible tracking and event data for buyers and sellers.

By: Brian Pao, Shuja Rahman and Irene Keay
Charity Fundraising

An eBay Charity Perspective for Developers

This article explores charity support in Public APIs and hypothetical integration scenario walkthroughs for developers who wish to integrate with eBay for Charity in their eBay-powered experiences.

By: Shekhar Banerjee and Diana Dukart
Android

eBay’s Image Clean-Up Feature Brings the Power of Image Processing Algorithms to Android

This feature enables our sellers to create cleaner listings.

By: Dzmitry Lebedzeu, Software Engineer
Search Science

eBay Makes Promoted Listings in Search Results More Relevant and Dynamic

The Promoted Listing algorithm continues to build revenue for the marketplace and makes sellers happy.

By: Shreya Raval, Yi Liu and Gajanan Adalinge
Mobile

eBay Launches Secure Local Pickup To Simplify The Shipping Experience

The enhanced feature enables buyers to purchase items online and pick up directly from sellers in their vicinity.

By: Shuja Rahman, Director of Product Management
Search Science

eBay Makes Search More Efficient Through Personalization

eBay introduces Best Match to personalize buyers’ search feeds.

By: Shreya Raval
Mobile

Dark Mode Now Live on eBay Native Apps

eBay becomes one of the first ecommerce companies to launch Dark Mode on iOS and Dark Theme on Android.

By: Bradford Shellhammer
Mobile

eBay Integrates Video into the eBay Motors App

The eBay Video Platform will allow sellers to add in videos of the cars they are selling on the eBay Motors App.

By: Geetanjali Gupta and Gilbert Bouzeid
Machine Learning

Building a Product Catalog: What we Learned from our University Machine Learning Competition

We challenged more than 100 college students at seven universities to structure listing data using AI and machine learning.

By: Senthil Padmanabhan
Deep Learning

A Learning Culture to Propel Innovation

A test-and-learn culture is key to building the best experiences for our customers.

By: Mazen Rawashdeh
Computer Vision

eBay Uses Computer Vision to Enable Sellers to Create Cleaner Images

We built an algorithm that lets users change the background of their listing photos.

By: Ellis Luk, Product Manager, C2C Selling