New Social Caption Generator Uses AI to Help Sellers Post More Easily

Summary

For eBay sellers, social media promotion can make listings more visible, but composing effective captions may be difficult. Its new generative AI feature adds a “Use AI Caption” button in the Social page of Seller Hub, where it drafts item-focused posts with hashtags and emojis. Sellers can ask for rewrites, manually keep or remove those extras, and publish posts containing listing links and item images. The capability is fully available in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia for sharing individual listings, categories, promotions, and stores, while an announced auto-posting option will later automatically publish new listings when they go live. The company reports a positive response from early users.

Takeaways

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   The “Use AI Caption” button appears next to the caption text box in Seller Hub’s Social page and generates item-focused copy with hashtags and emojis.

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   Sellers can prompt the AI to rewrite captions and manually include, modify, or omit the generated hashtags and emojis.

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   The feature is fully available in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia; planned auto-posting will publish listings to social media when they are published.