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Merchant Centre expands its AI performance insights to four more markets
Merchant Centre’s AI performance insights now cover Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand alongside the US, according to Google’s updated eligibility guidance.
What changed
The updated Merchant Center guidance lists Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand alongside the United States for English-language AI performance insights. Barry Schwartz's Search Engine Roundtable report documents the geographic expansion. Google's underlying report concerns shopping-related conversational queries in AI Mode and AI Overviews, with paid advertising traffic explicitly excluded from the described scope.
The report offers category-level views of visibility and shopper interest. Google's listed measures include share of voice, products appearing and the relative popularity of terms or attributes. This can help a retailer identify a specific information gap, such as a frequently sought product characteristic missing from its catalogue. It does not prove that inserting a popular phrase will produce sales, and product descriptions should only include attributes that are accurate.
The definitions also matter when presenting results internally. Google says a zero share of voice can reflect insufficient impressions, while a dash indicates no impression data. An account without the competitor data used for this report can show 100% share of voice. A high percentage therefore requires context before it becomes a claim about market leadership. Treat changes in the comparison set and reporting lag as possible explanations to investigate, rather than assuming every movement was caused by a feed edit.
Why it matters for advertisers
For retail media teams, the immediate use is a better discussion with the people responsible for product information and organic discovery. Keep these visibility measures in their own reporting section so that stakeholders do not read them as Shopping campaign reach, paid clicks or incremental revenue. A focused category review can produce a manageable list of factual feed improvements that can then be evaluated over time.
What to check next
- Open the AI performance view under Merchant Center product analytics where it is available and note the country, category and period used.
- Select one well-understood product category, compare visible shopper interests with actual product attributes, and prioritise accurate missing information.
- Annotate catalogue changes and review the same scope later. Check data sufficiency and competitor context before attributing a visibility shift to the changes.
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Merchant Centre expands its AI performance insights to four more markets
Merchant Centre’s AI performance insights now cover Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand alongside the US, according to Google’s updated eligibility guidance. The reports concern product visibility in Google’s generative AI experiences and currently support English queries, rather than providing a new paid-media conversion report. For you, this means retailers in these markets can assess their AI visibility while keeping those measures separate from Shopping campaign performance.
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