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A weekly breakdown for ecommerce leaders scaling TikTok Shop. The creator systems, benchmarks, and data driving GMV for top brands and client accounts - ready for you to replicate and use. Every Tuesday.
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Hey Reader, Josh from AmpliSell here. Quick opportunity for you before we start. Reply with your #1 TikTok question and brand, and I will donate $5 to St. Jude's, send you the receipt, and answer your question personally. Offer stands through Friday. If we get a lot of responses, that will be a big check to charity! Your questions help me figure out what I write next. Now, today’s issue: The Immeasurable Benefits of TikTokLet's map a few common paths to purchase that start on TikTok. A guy sees a nonstick pan on TikTok. He reads the Amazon reviews on his lunch break, gets pulled into a meeting, and forgets it. Two weeks later he spots the same pan at Target and buys it. <- This one was me. A college kid sees a wallet video and forwards it to his roommate. The roommate buys one on Amazon that night. A husband sees a greens powder on TikTok and mentions it to his wife. She orders it from the brand’s site the next morning. You have 3 different conversions sparked by TikTok at the top of the funnel. But last-touch hands the credit to retail, Amazon, and direct. To be fair, there are under-attributed benefits to TikTok, but the same goes for lots of other channels. So why does TikTok deserve special attention and incremental investment? What are these "immeasurable" benefits? TikTok Delivers the Unreachable CustomerBy TikTok’s own numbers, 61% of its users are not on Facebook and 45% are not on Instagram. Those two groups overlap, so the share on neither app is smaller than either number. But that group is real, and your Facebook and Instagram placements will never find them. TikTok Provides More Attention than Other ChannelsThe average TikTok user spends over an hour per day on the platform. This is almost 2x the time they spend on Instagram and 3x the time they spend on Facebook. TikTok Builds Trust with Your Future Customers49% of consumers name TikTok their top platform for product discovery, more than double Instagram or Facebook, per Sprout Social. And 76% of users said they are likely to purchase a brand because of content they saw on TikTok. Don't Trust Me, Trust This GuyHere's what your peer, Joel Contartese, VP of Global Growth at Bloom, says: "...in the first half of 2026. Our creators published 200,000+ videos, and TikTok Shop content alone drove over a billion impressions." So TikTok reaches customers Meta can't find, captures their attention for longer, and builds trust that other channels don't (PS - It's the creator authenticity doing that work). Brands like Bloom are running TikTok at massive scale and we all know that's working because I can't open my phone without seeing a Bloom product. More Immeasurable BenefitsMy buddy (and subscriber) Scott Needham at SmartScout looked at the top 10,000 Amazon brands and found the ones with a TikTok Shop grow 5.2x faster. Growth-minded brands adopt new channels so there may be some selection bias here. How about incrementality studies then? And Haus found the same pattern across hundreds of incrementality experiments: measured across every channel, TikTok delivered 1.9x the value that DTC numbers alone gave it credit for. For brands in retail, every $1 captured in ecommerce came with another 57 cents of incremental sales in stores like Target and Sephora, plus 34 cents on Amazon. Back to the question: why does TikTok deserve special attention and incremental investment? Special attention because these are customers Meta ads can't reach, who spend more time on the app, and build an opinion on your brand before they ever hit a checkout. Incremental investment because the sales are being driven by TikTok, even if they aren't captured there. Each of those paths to purchase above, the pan at Target, the roommate on Amazon, the wife on the brand's site, all discovered on TikTok. Your TikTok Channel Deserves a Measure of SuccessIf you or leadership judge TikTok purely on Shop GMV or last-click, the channel gets launched in Q1 and killed by Feb. Score it on the full value it creates instead: Shop GMV + Halo sales (geo holdouts, post-purchase surveys, Amazon branded search when your videos spike, post-purchase survey results) + Saved creative costs (your best TikTok videos become your Meta ads) + Share of voice where 49% of consumers now discover products That presents a radically different, but far more accurate picture of the "immeasurable" benefits of TikTok. We help ecommerce leaders who don't have the time and team to scale TikTok Shop.
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AmpliSell
A weekly breakdown for ecommerce leaders scaling TikTok Shop. The creator systems, benchmarks, and data driving GMV for top brands and client accounts - ready for you to replicate and use. Every Tuesday.