New Ecommerce Tools: December 31, 2025

Since 2016 I’ve published a weekly rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This final 2025 installment includes updates on mobile apps, hosting, ecommerce accelerators, avatars, review management, email marketing, agentic commerce, and video creation.

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New Tools for Merchants

MobiLoud launches analytics dashboard for mobile apps. MobiLoud, a mobile app builder, has launched an AI-powered analytics dashboard. According to MobiLoud, the dashboard provides merchants with real-time, actionable insights into their mobile apps’ performance and incremental value. The dashboard centralizes data into a single view, including revenue, conversions, user engagement,  retention, app versus website, and more.

Hosted.com launches infrastructure enhancements for WordPress. Hosted.com has updated its WordPress hosting platform. Per Hosted.com, the improvements include advanced server architecture, enhanced processing and resource allocation, and refined caching and database systems to maintain performance and uptime. The update also provides database configurations that support WordPress, handle content-heavy websites, and improve querying and page responsiveness.

Ecommerce accelerator CPGIO expands footprint with marketplace launches. CPGIO, an ecommerce accelerator for consumer brands, has announced new marketplace partnerships with Nordstrom, Chewy, Lowe’s, Faire, and Best Buy. CPGIO says these additions give brands access to more than 40 retail channels, reinforcing the company’s ecommerce position and enabling it to deliver actionable insights and performance controls.

Lemon Slice launches platform for real-time interactive avatars. Lemon Slice, an AI research and product lab, has launched Lemon Slice-2, a real-time avatar model that turns any image into a live conversational video call. Lemon Slice-2 is launching in two forms: an API for developers building interactive avatars into products, and an embeddable widget for a video chat bubble.

Aarav Solutions launches AI-powered CPQ chatbot on Odoo. Aarav Solutions, specializing in AI-driven accelerators, has launched a configure, price, quote chatbot on Odoo. This new conversational tool enables customers to configure products, receive real-time pricing, apply eligible discounts, and complete orders through a guided experience. Per Aarav Solutions, the Odoo-native chatbot (i) helps businesses move beyond form-driven CPQ workflows and (ii) operates within product catalogs, customer-specific price lists, discount rules, and fulfillment constraints.

NewMedia.com launches agency services for ChatGPT. NewMedia.com, an ecommerce marketing agency, has announced its ChatGPT visibility services to help brands optimize for generative search and large-language-model discovery. NewMedia.com helps businesses improve visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Gemini, and conversational search systems.

GBPPromote launches Google reviews management software. GBPPromote, a platform focused on Google Business Profiles for agencies and businesses, has launched its Google reviews management software to help companies manage reviews, protect their online reputation, and build trust with consumers. Per GBPPromote, features include one-click review replies, custom QR codes to help customers easily leave reviews, automated review requests, negative-review flagging, sentiment analysis and insights, instant review alerts, multi-location management, and a central dashboard for reviews from all locations.

Joyz Cloudtech launches customer service chatbot for businesses. India-based Joyz Cloudtech has launched a custom AI chatbot that helps businesses manage customer queries and support across websites, WhatsApp, Instagram, and custom apps. JoyzAI aims to handle customer queries, reducing the operational load on human support teams by automating routine and repetitive tasks. Joyz states businesses can train the new tool on specific information to deliver responses aligned with their products, services, and policies.

MuleRun launches Creator Studio for AI agent monetization. MuleRun, an AI agent marketplace, has launched a platform to help creators build, publish, and monetize AI agents. The new Creator Studio can develop agents using various tools or models and provide access to multiple LLMs and multimodal APIs. MuleRun also announced its upcoming agent builder, a natural-language-powered tool that enables users without coding experience to create agents using ideas and plain language and publish them directly on MuleRun.

Optimove updates email marketing tool. Optimove, an AI-powered marketing platform, has released an update to its email marketing tool. New features include an open data structure to sync templates with external data sources, AI content recommendation agents, an engine to trigger custom emails based on external events, interactive components via email widgets, and a Liquid-based syntax to insert data, apply logic, and structure dynamic content at scale.

TemVideo launches AI video creator for marketing. TemVideo has launched its platform to create marketing videos without requiring complex prompts. Users upload a product image, and TemVideo’s AI analyzes features, audience, and scenarios, then generates a story-driven 45-to-90-second marketing video.

Buzzy launches platform to generate video ideas from social trends. Buzzy, an AI video generator, has launched a platform to help creators and brands generate content ideas by analyzing social media trends. The platform’s goal is to structure creativity around real-time data, providing marketers with guidance on video content and publishing it directly on social media platforms through Buzzy.