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92% -- consumer trust in ugc vs traditional advertising for consumers (2025)
92% of consumers trust organic, user-generated content more than traditional advertising.
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92%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Nielsen
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Tier C
https://www.libautech.com/post/how-kylie-cosmetics-dominates-with-ugc-a-case-study-and-blueprint-for… ↗
Source Article
How Kylie Cosmetics Uses UGC: A Shopify Blueprint
How Kylie Cosmetics Uses UGC: A Shopify Blueprint
User-generated content (UGC) has become the secret weapon behind some of the most successful e-commerce brands, and no one exemplifies this better than Kylie Cosmetics. Since launching in 2015, Kylie Jenner's beauty empire has leveraged authentic cus…
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consumers: 92% consumer trust in ugc vs traditional advertising. Source: Nielsen (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ugc-trust-over-traditional-ads
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