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Amazon limiting written reviews for customers to read, Helium 10 MCP hackathon contest with big prizes, and new Helium 10 ChatGPT plugin.

We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s Manager of Education and Strategy, Carrie Miller. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium 10’s newest features, and provide a training tip for the week for serious sellers of any level.

Amazon Limits How Many Reviews Shoppers Can Read

That’s a wrap for this week’s Weekly Buzz! We hope you found these updates helpful and are ready to put them into action. Be sure to check back next week for the latest Amazon, e-commerce, and Helium 10 news. Until then, we’ll see you next week to find out what’s buzzing!

In episode 547 of the AM/PM Podcast and Weekly Buzz, Carrie talks about:

In this episode, Bradley shares 10 new tools and strategies for Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Walmart sellers, covering AI research, ad tactics, inventory, indexing, and smarter profit tracking.

What if you could uncover keyword indexing problems, research entire Amazon niches with AI, monitor sales across marketplaces, and find new advertising opportunities in a fraction of the time? In this episode, Bradley Sutton breaks down 10 new Helium 10 tools and strategies, plus 2 bonuses, built to help Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Walmart sellers make faster, more informed decisions.

The episode dives heavily into new Helium 10 MCP capabilities, including Black Box Niche research, historical price, BSR, review, and search volume data, Index Checker, Product Targeting, and competitor research. Bradley demonstrates how these tools can work together with Claude to uncover niche opportunities, analyze competitors, identify keyword gaps, and find potential product targets without jumping manually between multiple reports.

There are also updates designed to improve everyday operations. Sellers can now check keyword indexing directly from Keyword Tracker, use prebuilt advertising tactics and bid rules, monitor TikTok Shop performance through Seller Pulse, view Walmart inventory levels, account for indirect business costs inside Profits, and gain greater visibility into AWD inventory. Each feature is connected to a practical strategy for protecting profitability, improving advertising, or spotting problems before they become bigger issues.

The biggest takeaway is that these aren't just new buttons to click. They're opportunities to combine AI, automation, and better data into smarter workflows for your e-commerce business. Whether you're researching your next product, optimizing PPC, watching inventory, or figuring out why a keyword suddenly stopped ranking, the right data can help you act faster and make better decisions before your competitors do.

In episode 546 of the AM/PM Podcast, Bradley covers:

TikTok Shop USA sales are booming. There are some new regulations for packaging if you're selling in Europe, and the most-requested tool for MCP for Helium 10 is now available. These stories and more on today's weekly buzz!

We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s VP of Education and Strategy, Bradley Sutton. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium 10’s newest features, and provide a training tip for the week for serious sellers of any level.

TikTok Shop’s U.S. GMV Nearly Doubles to $11.8B in H1 2026

How Amazon's AI shopping assistant makes hundreds of millions of products feel personal

What if one overlooked Amazon metric is quietly costing you sales? Discover how keyword tracking, rank data, and smarter PPC decisions can uncover hidden revenue and stop wasted ad spend.

Amazon sellers spend countless hours researching products, optimizing listings, and managing PPC, but one important metric can easily get overlooked: keyword rank. In this episode, Bradley Sutton breaks down why tracking where your products appear for important search terms can reveal whether your advertising is actually helping your business grow or simply burning through your budget.

In episode 544 of the AM/PM Podcast, Bradley discusses:

New sponsored product creator campaigns, TikTok Shop now has MCF, and how Walmart is using AI to increase delivery speeds. These and more buzzing news on this week's episode!

TikTok Enters the Multichannel Fulfillment Race with FBT MCF

In episode 543 of the AM/PM Podcast and Weekly Buzz, Carrie covers:

What if Amazon sellers could turn Helium 10 data into instant AI reports? Learn about MCP workflows for keyword research, PPC, competitor analysis, listings, and faster decisions.

Amazon sellers have access to enormous amounts of valuable data, but turning that information into clear decisions can take hours of filtering, exporting, and spreadsheet work. In this episode, Carrie Miller, Bradley Sutton, Jason McLellan, and Vincent Lan demonstrate how the new Helium 10 MCP connects Amazon data with AI platforms such as Claude and ChatGPT, allowing sellers to analyze their businesses through simple, conversational prompts.

The episode explores practical workflows for Amazon competitor research, keyword ranking, PPC optimization, product research, and listing improvement. Sellers can compare a competitor’s strongest and weakest sales months, identify the keyword-ranking changes that may have influenced performance, uncover valuable keywords they are not tracking, and connect changes in page traffic with historical keyword movement. The Helium 10 MCP can also combine information from Cerebro, Black Box, Search Query Performance, Profits, Keyword Tracker, Brand Analytics, and Helium 10 Ads into one customized report.

Carrie shares how her listing analysis skill compares a product with its competitors, identifies keyword gaps, evaluates listing quality, and prioritizes search terms that may be close enough to page one for a strategic PPC push. Jason reveals how his agency combines Product Opportunity Explorer data with Helium 10 insights to create detailed market intelligence reports, while Vincent explains how he centralizes weekly performance data to understand how changes to pricing, images, rankings, and advertising affect the entire business.

The real power of the Helium 10 MCP is not simply having more data—it is being able to ask better questions and receive an actionable plan in minutes. Sellers who learn how to build effective prompts and reusable AI skills can replace hours of repetitive analysis with faster, smarter decisions. The tools are evolving quickly, but the sellers who begin experimenting now may gain an important advantage in how they research, optimize, and grow their Amazon businesses.

In episode 542 of the AM/PM Podcast, Bradley, Carrie, and Vincent discuss:

Will there be a TikTok Prime soon? Some of Amazon's new titles are being seen out in the wild. Amazon Product Opportunity Explorer has a new AI feature. These stories and more on today's Weekly Buzz.

We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s VP of Education and Strategy, Bradley Sutton. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium 10’s newest features, and provide a training tip for the week for serious sellers of any level.

TikTok Tests Prime-Style Shopping Membership Service

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-news/articles/QVRWUERLSUtYMERFUiNHRzdUVDNTMkFRRlBTQUtV

Amazon Product Opportunity Explorer New Feature - Validate Product Ideas

In episode 541 of the AM/PM Podcast and Weekly Buzz, Bradley covers:

Amazon title limits are changing. Learn how to protect your most important keywords, update listings faster, and keep Amazon’s AI from making costly changes to your product titles.

Amazon is introducing a major product title update beginning July 27, and sellers need to understand what is changing before Amazon’s AI starts rewriting their listings. Most product titles will be limited to 75 characters, while an additional 125 characters can be placed in a new Item Highlights field. Although Amazon says the split should not affect indexing, advertising relevance, or searchability, sellers should still carefully review which keywords remain in their titles and how important phrases are structured.

For sellers managing hundreds or thousands of listings, manually reviewing every title is not practical. That is where Helium 10’s new Bulk Optimize Titles feature inside Listing Builder becomes especially valuable. Diamond Plan members can select multiple active listings, generate AI-recommended titles and Item Highlights, review the suggestions from one screen, and sync the optimized content directly to Amazon. The tool is designed to preserve valuable keyword phrases while keeping listings compliant with Amazon’s new character limits.

Amazon’s update does not need to become a last-minute emergency. Review your titles, protect your most valuable search terms, and use the right tools to update your catalog efficiently. Sellers who want access to Bulk Optimize Titles can use coupon code SSP20 to save 20% on the Helium 10 Diamond Plan for six months. Do not wait for Amazon’s AI to decide how your products should be presented. Take control of your listings before the changes take effect.

In episode 540 of the AM/PM Podcast, Bradley talks about:

The deadline for Amazon title updates is fast approaching. Walmart announces negative targeting, and AI images must now be tagged in the metadata.

We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s Manager of Education and Strategy, Carrie Miller. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium 10’s newest features, and provide a training tip for the week for serious sellers of any level.

Amazon Seller Central News: Updates to improve your product titles begin on July 27

Helium 10’s New Bulk Optimize Titles feature inside the Listing Builder tool lets sellers quickly generate, review, and sync updated Amazon titles and item highlights across multiple listings. It also helps preserve important keywords that Amazon’s automated suggestions may remove.

Watch Bradley’s full step-by-step training at http://h10.me/bulktitles

Walmart is launching negative keyword targeting for all Sponsored Products advertisers on July 29, giving sellers more control over irrelevant search terms, ad spend, and campaign performance.

Amazon Seller Central News: Add to existing variation families from the Add Products page

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-news/articles/QVRWUERLSUtYMERFUiNHWUpSM0Q3SkVBNFpMVkE5

Amazon Ads News: Brand+ and Performance+ expand AI, keep advertiser control

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-news/articles/QVRWUERLSUtYMERFUiNHR0Y1MkJCWkdGSjgyR0oy

Amazon MCF Discount for TikTok Shop Orders

In episode 539 of the AM/PM Podcast and Weekly Buzz, Carrie covers:

Most sellers waste ad spend without realizing why. Discover the Amazon PPC strategies, budget shifts, and Amazon Ads features that could make your campaigns more profitable.

Amazon PPC can quickly become overwhelming. Sellers are constantly choosing between more keywords, more products, higher bids, new ad formats, and increasingly complex targeting options. But according to Paige Plevyak, Senior Retail Media Manager at Pacvue, better advertising does not begin with more tactics. It begins with a stronger foundation.

In this episode of the AM/PM Podcast, host Carrie Miller and Paige break down some of the biggest advertising mistakes sellers make, including spreading budgets across too many keywords and ASINs, adjusting bids too frequently, and launching campaigns without a clearly defined goal. Paige explains why sellers with limited budgets should often concentrate on five to ten priority keywords, focus spending on hero products, and use long-tail search terms to build momentum in competitive categories.

The conversation also explores when sellers should use Sponsored Products versus Sponsored Brands video, how Amazon Marketing Cloud audiences can improve targeting, and which newer Amazon advertising features may be worth testing. Paige also shares practical advice for recovering after a long stockout, increasing keyword impression share, managing product variations, and deciding when to prioritize immediate profitability over broader visibility.

The biggest takeaway is that strong PPC performance rarely comes from constantly chasing the newest feature. It comes from understanding your goals, focusing your resources, and giving your campaigns enough time and data to work. Build the right foundation first, and every optimization you make afterward becomes more intentional, measurable, and scalable.

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In episode 538 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Carrie and Paige discuss: