Blog

E-commerce intelligence insights, digital shelf guides, and engineering updates.

March 14, 2026

Crawlbot vs Edge by Ascential: Digital Shelf Intelligence Compared

Where Edge wins on strategic market intelligence, and where Crawlbot wins on operational shelf visibility for CE brands.

Comparison
March 13, 2026

Share of Voice Tracking: Organic vs Sponsored Explained

Why tracking organic and sponsored SoV separately is essential, and how retail media is reshaping the digital shelf.

Guide
March 12, 2026

E-Commerce Intelligence Tools Compared: 2026 Guide

Profitero, Edge, e.fundamentals, DataWeave, Crawlbot, and more — compared on coverage, features, and pricing.

Comparison
March 11, 2026

How to Track Competitor Prices on UK Retailers

Manual spot-checks vs automated monitoring: what 4,500+ price changes in two weeks actually look like.

Guide
March 10, 2026

How a Brand Lost 22 Points of Share of Voice in One Week

An anonymised case study: a major CE brand dropped from 64% to 42% SoV in 7 days. Here's what happened.

Case Study
March 9, 2026

The Real Cost of NOT Monitoring Your Digital Shelf

300 price changes per day, content gaps, SoV shifts — here's what you miss when you check quarterly.

Strategy
March 8, 2026

Why South African Brands Are Flying Blind on the Digital Shelf

No analytics platform covers Game, Incredible, or HiFi Corp. We built the first one. Here's the data.

South Africa
March 7, 2026

How Much of the UK Digital Shelf Is Sponsored? We Measured It.

521,507 product appearances across 22 retailers in one week. Here's the sponsored vs organic breakdown.

Research
March 6, 2026

We Track 8,197 Products Across 13 Retailers Every Day. Here's What We've Learned.

Content gaps, sponsored patterns, price volatility, and the South Africa blind spot — all from our proprietary data.

Data
March 3, 2026

Retail Media in the UK: Who's Winning the Sponsored Shelf?

An analysis of sponsored product placements across UK retailers and what it means for your brand strategy.

Market Intelligence
March 2, 2026

The Complete Guide to Currys Marketplace for Brands

Everything brands need to know about optimizing their presence on Currys.co.uk.

Retailer Guide
March 1, 2026

Price Monitoring Across UK Retailers: Track Every Change, Every Day

How to track competitor pricing, detect promotional cycles, and maintain price parity across retailers.

Product Update
February 28, 2026

How Product Content Quality Impacts Sales on Currys, Amazon, and Argos

Data-driven insights on why image count, video, specs, and A+ content directly affect your conversion rates.

Data Insight
February 27, 2026

Why UK and South African Brands Need Local E-Commerce Intelligence

Global tools miss local nuances. Here's why purpose-built UK and ZA coverage matters.

Market Insight
February 26, 2026

Profitero vs e.fundamentals vs Crawlbot: Digital Shelf Tools Compared

An honest comparison of three digital shelf analytics platforms and where each one shines.

Comparison
February 25, 2026

Sponsored vs Organic Products: Understanding Retailer Search Results

How sponsored placements work on Currys, Amazon, and Argos — and why brands need to track both.

Market Intelligence
February 24, 2026

How to Measure Brand Visibility on Retailer Websites

A practical guide to tracking your brand's position on category pages across UK and South African retailers.

Guide
February 23, 2026

Digital Shelf Analytics: What It Is and Why Brands Need It

Everything you need to know about monitoring your product presence across online retailers.

Guide
February 22, 2026

What Is Share of Voice in E-Commerce? A Complete Guide

A definitive guide to understanding and measuring your brand's share of voice on retailer websites.

Guide
February 21, 2026

Bypassing Cloudflare, Amazon Bot Detection, and More

How we adapted our scraping infrastructure to beat the latest anti-bot defenses across 18 retailers.

Engineering
February 15, 2026

Always On: Building Reliability Into Every Layer

NSSM services, watchdogs, memory ceilings, and Discord alerts that keep our scrapers running 24/7.

Engineering
February 10, 2026

Content Inspection: 62 Fields, 5 Retailers, Every Day

How we built a system that scrapes and parses every detail of every product page, every day.

Product Deep Dive
February 1, 2026

Tracking 14 Retailers Across Two Countries

Expanding Share of Voice monitoring from one retailer to 14, across the UK and South Africa.

Product Update
January 15, 2026

From Cloud to Local: Building a Distributed Scraping Network

How and why we migrated from cloud-based Octoparse to a self-hosted distributed queue system.

Engineering
How much does Crawlbot cost?
December 15, 2025

How Much Does Crawlbot Cost?

No clear pricing? It's intentional. We're looking for partners, not just customers.

Pricing & Partnerships
Criteo vs Crawlbot
December 14, 2025

Criteo Retail Media vs Crawlbot

Why relying solely on ad platform data might leave you guessing about your true market visibility.

Market Intelligence