Earnest, which tracks credit-and-debit-card transactions, found that around 27% of TikTok shoppers came back to make another purchase after five months of their first buy.
On this measure, TikTok Shop outperformed other e-commerce platforms, including Temu, Shein, and Etsy, as well as fellow social-commerce channels Whatnot, Flip, and Instagram Checkout.
Amazon was the only e-commerce platform that beat TikTok Shop in Earnest's dataset, which looked at customer-retention data between January 2022 and February 2024.
"The second I bought my first TikTok Shop product, which was probably a year and a half ago, from that moment on, I started to get more TikTok Shop content."
TikTok Shop seems to have become a place for impulse purchases, as well.
Persons:
Michael Maloof, Temu, TikTok, Maloof, —, they've, Nicole Rechtszaid
Organizations:
Walmart, Business, Facebook, Ghost Agency