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We knew Black Friday Cyber Monday would be different this year, but different how? Every BFCM, we follow our merchants’ online sales in real-time. This year, we wanted to see exactly how COVID-19 accelerated broader trends in commerce.

We completely re-imagined our Live Map for Black Friday Cyber Monday 2020, a real-time view of global sales trends happening across Shopify.

With 97% of North American BFCM shoppers planning to shop online this year, it may feel downright impossible trying to stay one step ahead of everything happening in your store this weekend. That’s why we’ve re-imagined Live View to help you track your store’s performance in real-time—from any device. Every 10 minutes, Live View will present a visual of your customers’ behavior throughout their checkout process.

As a small business owner, you're the expert on your business. But it can be challenging to also be an expert on everything that goes into setting up and growing your business. That's why the Shopify Experts Marketplace exists: to help connect you with highly-skilled professionals who can work with you to bring your business to the next level. In this article, learn how to use the Experts Marketplace to grow your business.

It’s been a year. We’ve all been hit by one crisis after another, and it’s fair to feel pretty burnt out.

We need inspiration. We need stories. We need something to help us hold it together in the middle of these interlocking crises.

Enter: Resilient Retail. Shopify’s brand new virtual event series is all about connecting retail industry experts and operators to share the tips, tactics, and cutting-edge knowledge they’re using to weather the current storm.

Creating a great shopping experience online isn’t just about features—it’s also about speed. That’s why we built a new report to help improve awareness of your Shopify store’s speed and measure it against businesses like yours.

In this and future blog posts, we'll dive deeper to explain the strategy behind our first consumer-facing product, the Shop app. Here, we’ll answer the questions why we made Shop an app and how Shop works with (and for) your business.

Racing bikes, coffee machines, energy drinks, dining chairs, camping cookers, hockey sticks, diamond rings, and even Hot Wheels toy cars. You can find them in Shopify stores, and now with the latest advances in file standards and web rendering, you can see these exact products in 3D on your own laptop screen. Even more, with iPhone and Android augmented reality, you can see them in your own home. Welcome to 2020.

If you couldn't catch the live event or want to get more details on what we announced, here are all the highlights from Reunite 2020.

A thank you from me to entrepreneurs for the resiliency they've shown during this time.