Your product catalog is the definitive source of truth for your online presence, especially when managing User-Generated Content (UGC) like ratings and reviews. For Bazaarvoice clients, a meticulously maintained catalog is vital for seamless integration and flawless display. This post explores three key best practices—from precise product naming and consistent category data to optimal naming conventions—that will unlock the full…
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12 posts
29 Jan
6 May 2024
Bazaarvoice has thousands of clients including brands and retailers. Bazaarvoice has billions of records of product catalog and User Generated Content(UGC)from Bazaarvoice clients. When a shopper visits a brand or retailer site/app powered by Bazaarvoice, our APIs are triggered. In 2023,Bazaarvoice UGC APIs recorded peak traffic of over 3+ billion calls per day with zero […]
27 Apr 2016
Today we are announcing an important change to our Conversations API service: On April 30, 2017 service will end for Conversations API versions 5.2 and 5.3 By deprecating older versions of our API service, we can refocus our energies on the current and future API services, which we feel offer the most benefits to our […]
9 Apr 2015
This blog post only applies to the Conversations API and does not apply to any other Bazaarvoice product. You are able to identify the Bazaarvoice Conversations API by the following: Path includes ‘data’: http://api.bazaarvoice.com/data/reviews.json? Code related to the Bazaarvoice Hosted Display does not need modification. It can be identified by the following: References ‘bvapi.js’: http://display.ugc.bazaarvoice.com/static/ClientName/en_US/bvapi.js […]
18 Sept 2013
An all too familiar scenario Imagine you’re a developer working for Widgets n’More. The marketing team just came up with a new cross platform social media promotion. It’s going to involve collecting user generated content in the form of ratings and reviews. As luck would have it you remember your friend on the Ecom Team […]
1 Mar 2013
Welcome to the Mashery-powered Bazaarvoice Developer portal. We strive to give you the tools you need to develop cutting-edge applications on the Bazaarvoice platform. Some changes you’ll notice: You no longer have to login to see documentation. Just click the Expand icon () to drill down to the information you need. If you want to […]
15 Jan 2013
We are pleased to announce that the following functionality has been developed for version 5.4: Submission forms pre-filled for non-anonymous users Full text search on all UGC and on includes Product family queries Photo upload accepts URLs Brightcove Smart Player Javascript integration Story rating field exposed in the response Special product attributes exposed in the response […]
4 Aug 2012
We are pleased to announce that the following functionality has been developed for version 5.3: Hosted authentication – email Feedback submission for comments RatingDistribution (Histogram data) and SecondaryRatingsAverages added to review statistics Time zone changed to UTC Error codes added to form errors Syndication attribution on reviews More detailed information on each of these items […]
2 Jun 2012
We are pleased to announce that the following functionality has been developed for version 5.2: Helpfulness and inappropriate content feedback submission enabled ContentLocale no longer filtered implicitly by default Product and category attributes populated as a map Hosted video submission and display updated Inline ratings data exposed for product-based review statistics More detailed information on […]
5 Apr 2012
We recently released our new Bazaarvoice Platform API. This is a new RESTful API that allows access to much more data and provides responses in XML and JSON. We are really excited to see the types of applications our clients will be building on the API. For a quick introduction to the API, we created […]
27 Mar 2012
Clients like the Home Depot are using ideas from our Inspiration Gallery to find innovative ways to show off their user-generated content (UGC) and demonstrate the importance of listening to their customers. The following image is taken from a Home Depot Store Managers meeting which had all store managers as well as suppliers in attendance. […]
15 Feb 2012
We are pleased to announce that the following functionality has been developed for version 5.1: ReviewStats updated Moderator Codes for user-generated content (UGC) exposed Wildcard character in ContentLocale filter enabled IP address in Content Display exposed API key creation and management added to the client portal More detailed information on each of these items is […]