In today’s consumer-first marketplace, having an active Product Experience Management (PXM) strategy is essential for brand success. Shoppers are already immersed in digital channels – mobile, desktop, tablet, TV – and expect seamless, engaging product experiences wherever they browse or buy.
The days of relying solely on basic PIM/DAM data for product listings or in-store planograms are over. Today’s content must be contextual, interactive, and omnichannel-ready, delivering more than just images and labels, it must tell a story, answer questions, and drive conversion.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce sales in Q1 2025 reached $300.2 billion, accounting for 16.2% of total retail sales, and growing 6.1% year-over-year. This underscores the urgency for brands to elevate their digital product content strategy.
At Syndigo, we’ve developed this guide to help brands navigate the evolving landscape of digital product content for CPT and retail. The strategy is divided into four key areas: Build & Organize, Enhance, Syndicate, and Optimize.
Lay the foundation for scalable, high-performing product experiences.
As a brand, your product content is more than just data; it’s your voice across the digital shelf. To win in today’s omnichannel marketplace, you need to take control of your product experience from the ground up. This is where Syndigo comes in:
- Content Creation & Collection: Capture product data from internal teams, suppliers, and third-party sources. Syndigo supports structured and unstructured inputs, including images, videos, and marketing copy.
- Data Validation & Governance: Ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with retailer-specific requirements. Syndigo’s validation engine flags missing attributes, incorrect formats, and outdated content.
- Nutrition & Regulatory Compliance: For CPG brands, Syndigo supports nutrition labeling, allergen declarations, and regulatory metadata to meet FDA, EU, and retailer standards.
- Centralized Management: Unify your PIM, DAM, and syndication workflows into a single platform. This ensures consistency across channels and reduces manual effort.
- Retailer-Specific Readiness: Automatically format and tag content to meet the requirements of each retailer, marketplace, or distributor.
GDSN and Core Content – What’s the difference?
While both types of product content may contain similar attributes, their uses are different. Core content is the information that can be captured from a product’s label or by inspection, including product brand names, descriptions, images, feature sets, specifications, weight and dimensions, ingredients or nutrition labels (for food items), etc. Core content is used in many applications, with publishing requirements based on each data recipient’s need. In contrast, GDSN content is an agreed-upon descriptive framework from the participating members of GS1 – an international standards association.
Transform Product Content into Conversion-Driving Experiences
Your product page is your brand’s moment of truth. It’s where shoppers decide whether to engage, trust, and ultimately buy. As a brand, you have the opportunity to turn every product page into a compelling story.
According to Syndigo’s real customer data, product pages with Enhanced Content, such as videos, interactive hotspots, and lifestyle imagery, can boost conversion rate by an average of 39% compared to standard listings. This impact is even greater for CPG brands, where rich media helps reduce returns and increase shopper confidence.
To elevate your product experiences, start by:
- Embedding rich media: Use videos, 360° views, and interactive hotspots to showcase product features and usage.
- Customizing for each retailer: Tailor your content layout and assets to match the PDP requirements of Amazon, Walmart, Target, and others.
- Highlighting key attributes: Surface nutritional info, certifications, and benefits in a scannable format that supports quick decision-making.
- Optimizing for mobile: Ensure your content loads fast and displays beautifully across devices—especially mobile, where most browsing begins.
Syndigo Enhanced Content is built to help brands:
- Scale rich content across hundreds of retailer PDPs.
- Maintain brand consistency while adapting to channel-specific formats.
- Track performance metrics to refine content strategy over time.
Deliver Consistent, Retail-Ready Content Everywhere It Matters
You’ve invested in building and enhancing your product content, now it’s time to get it in front of shoppers. But syndicating content across dozens (or hundreds) of retail partners, each with their own formats, requirements, and update cycles, is no small feat.
As a brand, your goal is to ensure that your product content is accurate, consistent, and optimized, everywhere it appears. That means delivering the right content to the right place at the right time, whether it’s a major retailer or a regional grocer in a niche marketplace.
Inconsistent or outdated content can lead to lost sales, compliance issues, and a fractured brand experience. According to the 2025 Syndigo State of Product Experience survey, 75% of shoppers will think negatively of a brand if their products are not accurately and consistently represented online.
To streamline syndication and scale your reach:
- Map your retailer ecosystem: Identify your key retail partners and understand their content requirements, update frequencies, and taxonomy structures.
- Automate content delivery: Use syndication tools to push updates in real time, ensuring your content is always current and compliant.
- Localize and customize: Tailor content for each retailer’s PDP layout, audience, and merchandising strategy.
- Monitor delivery success: Track where your content has been published, what’s missing, and what needs attention.
Syndigo helps brands:
- Distribute content to 1,750+ global retailers and distributors.
- Automate updates and reduce manual rework.
- Ensure compliance with each retailer’s requirement and format.
- Gain visibility into syndication status and performance.
Turn Performance Data into Strategic Advantage
Your product content is live across retailers, but how is it performing? Are shoppers engaging? Are you winning the Buy Box? Are your products showing up in search results?
As a brand, you need to go beyond publishing content; you need to measure, analyze, and act. Optimization is where your product experience strategy becomes a competitive advantage.
Here are some steps to consider:
- Track digital shelf metrics: Monitor visibility, availability, pricing, and content compliance across retailers.
- Benchmark against competitors: See how your products stack up in search rankings, content quality, and shopper engagement.
- Respond to shopper signals: Use review and Q&A insights to refine messaging, imagery, and product attributes.
- Close performance gaps: Identify where content is missing, outdated, or underperforming—and fix it fast.
Syndigo’s analytics suite helps brands:
- Visualize performance across retailers and marketplaces
- Identify content gaps and compliance issues
- Benchmark against category leaders
- Automate alerts and recommendations for continuous improvement
Building Your Success
Understanding these four key elements of a successful approach to digital product content – Build & Organize, Enhance, Syndicate and Optimize – will help to create product content that meets trading partner specifications, enables more efficient sharing and updating of information, and increased engagement, conversion and sales lift.
Syndigo provides many tools and capabilities for our clients to optimize their product content across the ecosystem. If you are looking to implement or improve your product content strategy, consider Syndigo’s free content health checkup. It will provide a no-obligation look into the areas your content is succeeding and where there are gaps. To schedule your free content health checkup, just click the button below and we will have one of our account representatives connect with you.
