It also introduced a suite of solutions and features under the brand TikTok Shopping, which includes ways to integrate products into videos, ads and LIVE shopping support.įacebook also ran its own series of live shopping events this spring and summer, and now offers dedicated live shopping sections inside both its Facebook and Instagram apps’ Shop sections. At an event last month, the company said it was expanding shopping with new partners Square, Ecwid, PrestaShop, Wix, SHOPLINE, OpenCart and BASE.
In the meantime, however, rival TikTok has moved forward with live shopping features of its own.Įarlier this year, TikTok began piloting TikTok Shopping in the U.S., U.K. Free Yourself Lyrics: Baby, you don't pay me no mind / You act like you don't love me no more / Maybe you need space or some time / Your attitude is unpredictable / And I don't want to make you. Instead, it’s continuing to test live shopping with individual creators.
(Walmart had earlier experimented with live shopping on TikTok across multiple events.)ĭespite the steps it’s been making toward livestream shopping, YouTube hasn’t yet made the feature broadly available. Since then, a number of YouTube creators have tried out livestream shopping with their fans, including Simply Nailogical, who launched her nail polish collection to 2.8 million fans on her Simply Not Logical channel Hyram, who launched his “ Selfless” skincare line to his 4.5 million fans and Raven Elyse, who ran a livestream shopping session where she sold products in partnership with Walmart. The initial tests had been focused on videos on demand before the livestream pilot kicked off this summer. The company first unveiled its plans to invest in live shopping at the beginning of 2021, as part of a larger initiative around integrated shopping on YouTube. The event will allow viewers to shop new products, unlock limited-time offers and engage with creators and other viewers via Q&As and polls, the company says. Now, the company is ready for a larger test of its live shopping platform, with plans to host a week-long live shopping event, “YouTube Holiday Stream and Shop,” starting on November 15. TheGrio is now on Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Roku.YouTube announced earlier this year it would begin pilot testing livestream shopping with a handful of select creators.
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