Social Shopping Site Bestie to Begin Curating Over 100,000 Items per Day

Social shopping community aims to aggregate all the world's ecommerce products and stores

TORONTO, Oct. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Bestie, the social shopping community, announced today that the company will begin curating over 100,000 ecommerce products per day by November. Planning to catalog 36 million products within a year, Bestie has set off on a long-term mission to aggregate all the world's products and stores in one social network.

Launched in July 2014, Bestie transforms online shopping from a solitary experience into a collaborative and fun activity. Users can like, save, share and comment on cool apparel, home & office goods, pet accessories and tech products. Bestie shows which products are trending and also allows users to personalize their shopping feed by following stores and friends. Shoppers can discover products, @ mention friends for advice and then click through to the seller's store to make a purchase. Essentially, Bestie aims to blend the best parts of ecommerce, shopping at the mall with friends and social networking in one site.

Since July, Bestie's database has grown from 60,000 items to over 500,000. By November, Bestie will reach its target of curating 100,000 products per day. The social shopping site will be able to offer roughly 36 million products by its one year anniversary.

Statistics on user activity illustrate that Bestie is driving purchases and rapidly increasing shopper engagement. During Q3, revenue per registered Bestie user tripled, and average daily revenue on Bestie quadrupled. Over the past month, average time on site per visit doubled, and average page views per visit quadrupled.

"Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive social shopping site on the web," said Gary Lipovetsky, co-founder of Bestie. "Although we encourage retailers and shoppers to add items, building our database of products should not be their responsibility. We've taken the lead in this effort and it will allow us to scale very quickly."

"We're providing a service to users who want to shop online with friends and retailers that want to make it easier for shoppers to discover, purchase, discuss and recommend their products," added co-founder Mike Tulman. "Bestie can make a positive impact on ecommerce by becoming the world's largest online 'mall'."

While Bestie has taken the lead in curating products, shopper activity ultimately determines which products gain popularity. Social algorithms organize and rank products based on individual shopper behavior, and Bestie makes it easy to discover products with personalized feeds, a trending page and powerful search capabilities.  

To learn more about Bestie, visit www.bestie.com

About Bestie

Bestie is a social shopping community that makes ecommerce collaborative and fun. Consumers can collect, organize, shop, share, find deals and buy any item on the Internet – all in one place. The company was co-founded by Gary Lipovetsky and Mike Tulman, serial entrepreneurs who previously launched Canadian restaurant guide MenuPalace and leading Canadian daily deal site Dealfind. For more information, visit www.bestie.com.

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