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Practical guides for Shopify merchants on SEO, content marketing, and AI workflows — written and edited by Aman Bedi, Founder of Obsess AI.
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How to Make an AI Commercial for Your Product: A Practical Walkthrough
An AI commercial is a short video ad generated from your product photos, a script, and a presenter (real or synthetic). This walkthrough covers the brief, the three styles worth knowing, why reference photos matter more than prompts, script structure for 15 and 30 seconds, disclosure rules, a QA checklist, and the platform specs for YouTube, TikTok, and Google Ads.Published Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026Read More - AI & Automation11 min
What Are AI Tokens? The September 2026 Cost Guide to Claude and GPT
AI tokens are the unit every Claude and GPT bill is measured in. This guide explains what a token is, what the current models cost as of September 2026, where the money goes in a real request, and the nine levers that cut the bill, with measured numbers from our own product-description and collection-page runs.Published Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026Read More - AI & Automation18 min
GPT-6 Astra for Ecommerce Content: Pricing, Specs, and What It Actually Wrote on Real Store Pages
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026 at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with a 1,050,000-token context window. On September 9 the API opened to standard organizations and we ran it head to head against GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.4 on our production product-description and collection-page prompts, on real products from stores on our platform. This guide covers the specs, the pricing, what OpenAI claims about writing, and what Astra actually wrote: where it tied, where it won, where it slipped, and what each page cost.Published Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 9, 2026Read More - AI & Automation15 min
Seedance 2.5 for Product Video: Use Cases, Dos and Don'ts, and How We Use It
Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's video model: 4 to 30 seconds in one generation, 480p or 720p with native audio and lip sync, and up to 50 reference inputs. This guide covers the specs and pricing as of September 2026, the use cases that work for online stores, the reference grammar that decides whether your product survives the render, the dos and don'ts we learned running it in production, and real examples from our own studio.Published Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026Read More - AI & Automation14 min
Nano Banana 2 for Product Photography: Pro vs 2, Pricing, Dos and Don'ts, and How We Use It
Nano Banana 2 is Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model: 512px to 4K output, up to 14 reference images, legible text rendering and search grounding, at $0.067 per 1K image. This guide covers the specs, how it compares with Nano Banana Pro and Lite, what it costs, the use cases that work for online stores, and the dos and don'ts we learned running it as the still camera behind our product photography and try-on features.Published Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026Read More - AI & Automation9 min
Virtual Fitting Rooms: What They Actually Solve for an Online Store (and What They Don’t)
The phrase "virtual fitting room" covers two very different products: widgets that let shoppers see clothes on themselves, and studios that put your catalog on a model for your galleries and ads. Most merchants evaluating one actually need the other. Here is what each solves, how to choose, and the quality bar both must clear.Published Sep 1, 2026Updated Sep 1, 2026Read More - AI & Automation14 min
Best AI SEO Tools in 2026: What Actually Works
"AI SEO tools" is one search phrase covering four different jobs — optimizing content against the SERP, deciding what to write, fixing technical SEO at scale, and producing catalog-grounded ecommerce content. Nine tools organized by the job you are hiring for, every description verified against the vendor's own pages, and our own product disclosed up front.Published Aug 29, 2026Updated Aug 29, 2026Read More - AI & Automation9 min
AI Product Videos: How to Turn the Photos You Already Have Into Video That Sells
Most Shopify products are photographed but never filmed — a video shoot costs more than most catalogs justify. AI product video generation closes that gap by animating the photos you already have. Here is how it works, what separates a good result from an embarrassing one, and where product video actually lifts conversion.Published Aug 27, 2026Updated Sep 1, 2026Read More - AI & Automation10 min
AI Landing Page Generator: Why Generic Tools Fail Shopify Merchants
Most AI landing page generators hand you a page that lives outside your store — a different template system, a different editor, no connection to your catalog or SEO strategy. Here is what an AI landing page generator should actually do for a Shopify merchant, and why theme-native beats generic.Published Jul 1, 2026Updated Jul 1, 2026Read More - AI & Automation14 min
Best AI Content Tools for Ecommerce in 2026: An Honest Category-by-Category Guide
Practical guide to AI content tools for ecommerce. Six tool categories explained, honest picks for each, and when consolidating into one tool makes sense versus picking best-in-class.Published Feb 4, 2026Updated May 20, 2026Read More - AI & Automation15 min
Best AI Writers for Shopify in 2026: An Honest Tool-by-Tool Roundup
A practical evaluation of AI writing tools for Shopify stores — what each tool actually does well, where it falls short, and which is the right choice for which kind of merchant. Conflict of interest disclosed.Published Feb 1, 2026Updated May 10, 2026Read More - AI & Automation14 min
AI Content for Ecommerce: An Honest Guide to What Works (And What Doesn't)
A practical guide to using AI for ecommerce content. What AI is good at, what still needs human writers, the editorial workflow that protects quality, and Google's actual policy on AI content.Published Feb 1, 2025Updated May 20, 2026Read More
About this blog
Every post here is written or edited by Aman Bedi, who works with Shopify merchants daily on keyword strategy, on-product SEO, content workflows, and the integrations that connect them.
Where a post references Obsess AI (our Shopify content app), that conflict is disclosed inline so you can weigh the recommendation accordingly. Numerical claims are cited; if a claim has no source, we cut it.
We refresh top posts on a recurring cadence as the Shopify platform and Google's ranking systems change. The “Updated” date on each post reflects the last meaningful content change, not a freshness tweak.
Full details on how content is researched, edited, and updated — including how we use AI in our own writing — are in the editorial policy.