On this week's episode of The Weekly Buzz, we have updates to listing Armageddon, and Walmart is now

tying its online offerings to their retail stores, and our brand new YouTube channel has just

launched this and more on this week's episode of The Weekly Buzz.

How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of this series

Sellers podcast by Helium 10.

This is the show that is our Helium 10 weekly buzz

where we give you a rundown of all the goings on in the Amazon TikTok shop and e-commerce world.

We let you know what new features that Helium 10 has, as well as give

you a training tip of the week that will give you serious strategies for serious sellers of any level

in the e-commerce world. Today's host is actually going to be Carrie Miller, so Carrie, take it

away and let us know what's buzzing. Okay, so first up, we actually have an update to Amazon's irrelevant or redundant

variation theme removal. I know a lot of people are really upset about this when we announced

it. I think it was last week, but Amazon actually sent out a little bit of a message in Seller Central

to clarify some things about the variation cleanup because, you know, obviously people who

have variations don't want their size color variations to be completely deleted out of the catalog so this is what

amazon actually said they said on august 20th 2025 we announced that irrelevant or redundant

variation themes would be removed from our listing experiences these variation themes are marked

as depreciated do not use in our new product templates we also published a list of variation themes are marked as depreciated do not use in our new product templates.

We also published a list of variation themes and product types affected by this change.

This change was only intended to impact variation themes that were not needed.

We've revised the list to only remove variation themes that had no sales in the past 12 months.

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