What Amazon's 75-Character Title Limit and New Item Highlights Field Mean for Your Listings
Amazon's title format changed for good this year. As of July 27, product titles are capped at 75 characters, and a new Item Highlights field picks up the next 125 characters right behind it on the detail page. If you manage an Amazon catalog, this isn't a one-time cleanup task, it's a new standard you'll be working within on every future listing and every existing one you touch.
The reason this matters more than a typical formatting change is what's reading your titles now. A rushed cut strips your keywords, breaks your AI visibility, and gives Alexa for Shopping less to work with at the exact moment more shoppers are letting it make purchase decisions for them. The 75 characters you keep in the title field and the 125 you move into Item Highlights aren't interchangeable in how they get weighted, so which keywords go where is worth real thought rather than a quick trim.
Start by pulling your current titles and separating what's actually doing work. Your core product identifier, brand, and top one or two search terms need to survive inside that first 75 characters, since that's what shows in search results and what carries the most weight for ranking. Everything else, secondary attributes, size and color variations, use-case language, belongs in Item Highlights, where it still feeds the detail page and AI-driven surfaces without competing for space in the truncated title.
We'd treat this the same way we treat any catalog-wide policy shift: audit first, then prioritize. Your top revenue SKUs should get hand-reviewed titles and Item Highlights, not an automated truncation. Lower-volume SKUs can follow a template based on what worked for your top performers. And because new products keep launching and Amazon keeps tuning how AI surfaces read structured data, this is worth revisiting every few months rather than treating it as done once your current catalog is compliant.
The brands that get ahead of this keep both their search visibility and their AI visibility intact. The ones that treat it as a one-time character count exercise usually find out later that the keywords they lost were the ones actually driving traffic.





