# How Mercari uses Photoroom

**10%**: “with an adoption rate of 10% of users, we are aiming to raise the amount of listings on the marketplace by 1%”

As published on [photoroom.com](https://www.photoroom.com/customer-stories/mercari), October 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-09.

- Company: [Mercari](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/mercari.md)
- Tool: [Photoroom](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/photoroom.md)
- Industry: [Marketplace](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/marketplace.md)
- Teams: Product, Engineering

## What the story says

Mercari integrated Photoroom's API into its seller listing flow so sellers can blur the background of item photos with a single button in the live camera. This lets sellers avoid showing messy or private spaces, which had caused some to postpone or abandon listings.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Photoroom and Mercari, not ours.

> After launching the ability to blur listings' backgrounds, there was very significant boost in average number of items published by casual sellers, and a positive impact across all segments

- **2-3 months**: “A small team of 3-4 engineers at Mercari brought the feature from initial discussion to production in 2-3 months.”

> Photoroom helps sellers build confidence to showcase the products they're most passionate about. By boosting sellers' confidence when taking listing photos, anyone can list anything, anywhere, at any time.
>
> Nick Pittoni, AI/LLM Consumer Product Lead

Source: [photoroom.com](https://www.photoroom.com/customer-stories/mercari), captured 2026-10-09.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-09.

- Checked: the figure 10% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Mercari.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Mercari.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Mercari uses Photoroom. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-09.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/mercari-photoroom · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology