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Creators Narrow Search’s Lead in Gen Z Discovery
· New York time
Creator posts trail online search by four percentage points as Gen Z’s leading method of finding new products, according to a Morning Consult survey of 6,283 U.S. adults reported by Net Influencer. The figures were 33% for creator posts and 37% for search. The shopping journey increasingly includes a person explaining a product before a search box gets its turn. The survey also found that 67% of Gen Z respondents and 60% of millennials reported buying a product in the past year because an influencer endorsed it. Those are reported purchasing experiences, rather than experimentally measured campaign effects. For brands, the findings make creator recommendations difficult to treat as a marginal discovery channel. They also leave important buying decisions open: which creator, which product and which campaign still matter. A broad survey is not a personalized media plan delivered with complimentary shipping. The cultural shift is less that shoppers have stopped asking questions than that some now ask people they follow. Search supplies links; creators supply a familiar face and a demonstration. The household budget must then perform its traditional role as the stern, unverified account replying that perhaps this purchase can wait.
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