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ecommerce market with TikTok Shops, delivering the most complete socialcommerce experience to date. Shein uses user data insights to predict what products customers will want in the future, effectively taking fastfashion to the next level. Finally, TikTok has rapidly entered the U.S.
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TikTok and Instagram are volume platforms, they’re like the fastfashion of social media,” Dulay explained. YouTube lags behind the others but comes in at number three in popularity, with 19% of influencers offering paid content services on the site, which is capturing 6% of advertisers’ influencer marketing spend.
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We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some socialcommerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). 31:44] Socialcommerce still has a bunch of avenues like live streaming does not appear to be a high volume one in the US and then later in the month.
12:35] Look it was an early socialcommerce player as far as leveraging Pinterest and things that you could do with. Order management system warehouse management system all the way down to the call center and the warehouse it was, um pretty pioneering on the web services side as far as. [12:35]
No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. For 2023, live streaming commerce, still not meaningful in the US. I think Shein is actually taking share from the fastfashion.
From the integration of socialcommerce and innovative AI applications to the establishment of trade organizations and interfacing with government, its clear why resale is seeing accelerated growth and has such a promising growth trajectory.
34:37] Okay and then the inverse of that is I think one of the things that there’s been a lot of talk about that is going to have substance is live streaming of kind of video live video e-commerce integration so I think that one is going to be more mainstream there’s there’s a little.
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