Product Data Weekly is a short, practical podcast about the realities of product data operations.
Each week, we explore the challenges that sit behind growing catalogues, evolving systems and ever increasing data demands.
No theory.
No vendor hype.
Just grounded conversations about what it really takes to manage product data at scale.
If you’re involved in ecommerce, product information, supplier onboarding, ERP, PIM, marketplace feeds or anything connected to product data, this is for you.
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Episode 27: When Is Product Data Actually Good Enough?
Most teams measure product data quality with a fill rate.
But a 98% complete product can still be worse than one sitting at 75%.
In this episode, we break down why completeness is a vanity metric, where "good enough" really comes from, and the trap that catches almost every distributor, retailer and DTC brand we work with.
We also share a practical way to work out what good looks like for your catalogue, using information you almost certainly already have but probably aren't looking at.
Episode Breakdown
01:53 – Why completeness is not quality
04:06 – The vicious circle most teams are stuck in
06:08 – Can you have too much product data?
09:31 – The investment nobody wants to make
11:48 – How to work out what good looks like
Keywords: product data, e-commerce, data quality, completeness, fill rate, attribute modelling, product taxonomy, PIM, customer experience, data governance
Resources
Product Data Weekly Newsletter – https://productdataweekly.com (https://productdataweekly.com)
3 Sept 2026
Episode 26: Is Your Product Data Strategy a Spreadsheet?
Most businesses manage their product data in spreadsheets.
Even the ones that have already bought a PIM.
In this episode, we break down why spreadsheets are so hard to give up and where they quietly stop being a strategy and start being a risk: no governance, no validation, version upon version, and business-critical processes that live in one person's head.
If your master spreadsheet is called "USE THIS ONE v1.1", this one's for you.
Episode Breakdown
02:28 – Why everyone reaches for a spreadsheet
04:53 – No guardrails: version upon version, all wrong
06:15 – Spreadsheets as shadow middleware
09:09 – Why businesses persevere for so long
Keywords: product data, e-commerce, spreadsheets, Excel, PIM, data governance, data quality, product information management, data validation, digital transformation
Resources
Product Data Weekly Newsletter – https://productdataweekly.com (https://productdataweekly.com)
27 Aug 2026
Episode 25: Product Data Regulation (Part 2) Digital Product Passports
Digital product passports sound like a sustainability project.
Which is why they usually land on the sustainability team's desk, and why a lot of businesses are getting ready for the wrong thing.
In this second part of our product data regulation series, we break down what the EU actually expects you to hold against every product, who carries the responsibility when you import or sell under your own label, and why most of this information cannot be enriched the way spec data can.
We also cover why collecting it now is the cheapest it will ever be.
If you sell into the EU and this has been sitting in the too hard pile since 2024, start here.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 – Why digital product passports are finally happening
03:48 – Who is responsible when you import or sell own label
06:39 – What you actually have to hold against every product
08:27 – Why almost nobody has this information today
12:26 – The part of this you cannot enrich your way out of
15:21 – Vendor noise and what to actually look for
17:29 – Why this is a product data problem, not a sustainability one
Keywords: product data, e-commerce, digital product passport, ESPR, EU regulation, product compliance, supplier data, data enrichment, product traceability, PIM, data governance, digital transformation
Resources
Product Data Weekly Newsletter – https://productdataweekly.com (https://productdataweekly.com)
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