Topic
Selling physical goods inside social and short-video platforms, where entertainment content drives product discovery and checkout.
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Korea's registered social-media sellers reported 33.31 billion won of business income in 2024, more than 18 times the 2020 figure. The tax agency says it has limited means to check those sales, so the total counts only what sellers chose to declare.
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Bloomberg found references to peer-to-peer transfers on TikTok Pay inside the US iPhone app. The interesting part is where they sit: DMs, not the storefront TikTok already outsources.
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Euka built its business running TikTok Shop affiliate programs for 17,000 brands. Its Instagram launch moves that work onto a second platform, and Shopify carries the orders and the commission payouts that make an affiliate program run.
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Merchants put Amazon at about half of sales and TikTok Shop at 5 to 15 percent, while crediting TikTok for the growth in every other channel.
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