TikTok integrates an AI assistant and one-click purchasing within its feed
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TikTok has made a move in the e-commerce arena with two features designed to keep shopping from escaping the application: a conversational assistant based on artificial intelligence and an integrated payment system. The announcement was presented at Advertising Week New York and fits into the strategy the company calls agentic commerce, meaning putting an AI agent to accompany the user from the moment they see a product until they pay. The underlying idea is simple: to reduce the steps between discovery and transaction. Until now, someone could see a video, become interested in an item, go out to search for information on Google, ask another chatbot, or end up on the brand's website. TikTok wants that conversation and payment to happen within its own environment, without so much back and forth. The most striking piece for the user is Buy Direct, a native checkout solution that allows products to be purchased directly from a brand without leaving TikTok. The company ensures that the purchase can be completed from the "For You" feed with a single click, which reduces the friction previously involved in opening an external link and filling out data on another page. The system takes advantage of already saved payment methods and addresses, and includes order tracking within the app. In this scheme, the brand remains the Merchant of Record, or merchant responsible for the...
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TikTok has also introduced Agentic Leads, an AI agent aimed at capturing and qualifying potential customers.
