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  "id": "tiktok-shop-100-billion-ecommerce-searches-2025",
  "slug": "tiktok-shop-100-billion-ecommerce-searches-2025",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/tiktok-shop-100-billion-ecommerce-searches-2025/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/tiktok-shop-100-billion-ecommerce-searches-2025.json",
  "claim": "TikTok Shop saw more than 100 billion searches with e-commerce intent in the US in 2025",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"People search TikTok to shop\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "TikTok",
    "title": "TikTok Newsroom (US)",
    "year": "2026"
  },
  "quote": "in 2025, there were more than 100 billion searches with e-commerce intent on TikTok Shop in the U.S.",
  "method": "Company-reported; 'e-commerce intent' is TikTok's own classification.",
  "drift": [
    "Unit: searches, not users or purchases"
  ],
  "interest": "TikTok promotes its own shopping product.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "TikTok says there were more than 100 billion e-commerce-intent searches on TikTok Shop in the US in 2025 (its own classification).",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "TikTok Newsroom US",
      "url": "https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Calendar year 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}