This page records material consumer-facing changes to Australian Product Guide's experience, coverage, evidence and governance. Dates reflect real review or release events rather than automated freshness.
17 August 2026 — editorial, compliance and discovery review
APG’s current catalogue, discovery architecture and trust content were reviewed against the live operating model. Site-wide copy now distinguishes starter evidence from deeper manufacturer-backed research, uses current evidence dates where available, strengthens Amazon paid-link disclosures, clarifies optional account and analytics practices, and avoids presenting the maintained catalogue as whole-of-market coverage.
Current scope: 482 maintained products, 90 populated categories, 178 represented brands and 272 prepared head-to-head comparison routes. These figures are derived from the current structured catalogue rather than manually maintained marketing claims.
23 August 2026 - Trust Centre and company-information reconciliation
Australian Product Guide consolidated its eleven Trust Centre and company-information pages into a single authoritative content source. Catalogue scope on these pages now comes from the live structured catalogue rather than separately typed totals. Privacy, Amazon affiliate, comparison-scope, contact, corrections and Terms wording were reconciled to the current operating model, and a dedicated release gate now checks all eleven pages for superseded statements.
Current maintained scope: 482 products, 90 populated categories and 178 represented brands. This is curated Australian Product Guide coverage and is not a claim of whole-of-market comparison.
23 August 2026 - Consumer-language reconciliation
Decision and product-research surfaces were reviewed to reduce implementation language in consumer-facing copy while preserving explainable recommendations, evidence visibility and affiliate independence.
17 August 2026 - Editorial, compliance and discovery review
Australian Product Guide reviewed catalogue, discovery and trust content against the operating model, strengthened disclosure of evidence depth and retailer-link types, clarified account and analytics practices, and reinforced that the maintained catalogue is not whole-of-market coverage.
16 August 2026 - Site-wide navigation and product-research update
Australian Product Guide upgraded navigation, search presentation, comparison journeys, trust navigation and retailer-record controls while retaining its lightweight server-rendered architecture.
Amazon product links and content
Australian Product Guide uses exact Amazon Australia product destinations only when the relevant product or variant identity is verified; otherwise it may use a transparent model-specific search fallback. Amazon Program Content is used only through mechanisms permitted by the applicable Amazon Associates programme terms and policies, with product identity and usage basis checked before publication.
Ongoing maintenance principles
- Material product changes are made in the structured product record first.
- Recommendations and comparisons are checked after relevant data or logic changes.
- Pricing, seller and availability information are treated as volatile.
- Third-party imagery requires an appropriate source, product match and usage basis.
- Commercial relationships remain outside product-fit scoring.
- Trust Centre review dates advance only after substantive review or change.
Current evidence priorities
Current priorities remain deeper evidence in thinner categories, lawful genuine product imagery, stronger exact Australian retailer coverage, better freshness controls and clearer decision attributes where they materially improve shopper outcomes.