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7.8%

7.8% -- share of shopping queries for ChatGPT (2025)

2025  · Bain & Company and Sensor Tower

Shopping-related queries accounted for 7.8% of all ChatGPT searches prior to increasing to 9.8%.

  • Represents baseline before growing to 9.8%
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Bain & Company and Sensor Tower Primary Tier B
https://kahunam.com/articles/seo/do-people-actually-buy-through-ai-search-what-the-research-shows/ ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Do People Actually Buy Through AI Search? What the Research Shows
Everyone’s talking about AI shopping features. But do they actually lead to sales? The research tells conflicting stories. Some studies show AI visitors convert 23 times better than organic search. Others show they convert worse than almost every other channel. Both claims have data behind them. Her…
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Up from 7.8%; a 25% category increase

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ChatGPT: 7.8% share of shopping queries. Source: Bain & Company and Sensor Tower (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-shopping-query-share
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