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MediaLabs was named in 7 of the 8 TikTok Shop agency questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 105 of the 289 AI responses sampled across those questions (36.3%).

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MediaLabs is strongest on Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?, where it was named in 19 of 33 responses (57.6%), placing it in tier 1 of that report.

Where MediaLabs was named

One row per report in which MediaLabs cleared the reporting threshold. Reports where it was not named often enough to clear that threshold are not listed. Each report states its own sample size and collection window.
QuestionTierResponsesShare
Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?119 of 3357.6%
What are the best TikTok Shop agencies?139 of 8545.9%
Which agencies work with supplement, apparel, food and home goods brands on TikTok Shop?118 of 4242.9%
What are the best agencies for TikTok Shop creator sourcing and management?19 of 2733.3%
What are the best TikTok Shop agencies for a small brand with a limited budget?17 of 3122.6%
Our TikTok Shop sales stalled after a strong first month. Who can we hire to fix it?16 of 2821.4%
Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand?27 of 4316.3%

What MediaLabs gets named for

Across the 8 TikTok Shop agency questions measured, MediaLabs is named most often on Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs? — it appears in 19 of the 33 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 57.6% of them. Its next strongest question is “What are the best TikTok Shop agencies?”, where it appears in 39 of 85 responses (45.9%).

MediaLabs clears the reporting threshold on 7 of the 8 questions. The spread matters as much as the peak: a firm named across several different questions is one an assistant reaches for generally, where a firm named on one is attached to a single specialism.

What MediaLabs’s tier placings mean

On Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 19 of 33 responses (57.6%). It holds tier 1 alone: no other firm on this question was named often enough to be grouped with it, so on this question the sample does put one firm clearly ahead. 9 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

On What are the best TikTok Shop agencies?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 39 of 85 responses (45.9%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 85 responses, the gap between MediaLabs and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. MediaLabs shares tier 1 with Outlandish and MuteSix, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 12 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

On Which agencies work with supplement, apparel, food and home goods brands on TikTok Shop?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 3, named in 18 of 42 responses (42.9%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 42 responses, the gap between MediaLabs and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. MediaLabs shares tier 1 with Social Tale and TokShop Agency, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 9 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

On What are the best agencies for TikTok Shop creator sourcing and management?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 9 of 27 responses (33.3%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 27 responses, the gap between MediaLabs and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. MediaLabs shares tier 1 with WE Marketing and MomentIQ, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 7 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

On What are the best TikTok Shop agencies for a small brand with a limited budget?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 1, named in 7 of 31 responses (22.6%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 31 responses, the gap between MediaLabs and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. MediaLabs shares tier 1 with TokShop Agency, The Brand Buddies, BA Media, Boundless, Campfire, Digital Media Team, Dimension 6, Elevation PR and GEN Z MEDIA, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary.

On Our TikTok Shop sales stalled after a strong first month. Who can we hire to fix it?, MediaLabs sits in tier 1 of 2, named in 6 of 28 responses (21.4%). Tier 1 does not mean it was ranked first. It means that at 28 responses, the gap between MediaLabs and the most-named firm in that sample is inside the margin of error, so the two cannot be told apart. MediaLabs shares tier 1 with WE Marketing, Social Tale, MomentIQ, Creatify and TBAR Partners, and the order they are listed in is arbitrary. 4 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

On Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand?, MediaLabs sits in tier 2 of 3, named in 7 of 43 responses (16.3%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 44.2% of responses against MediaLabs’s 16.3%. It shares tier 2 with Pattern, BA Media, Social Tale, MomentIQ, TikSale and TokFusion, which the sample cannot separate from it. 2 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate MediaLabs from them.

Where MediaLabs does not appear

MediaLabs was not named often enough to clear the reporting threshold on 1 of the 8 questions: “What are the best US-based TikTok Shop agencies?”.

An absence here is a fact about visibility, not about capability. It means that when buyers put that question to ChatGPT during the sampling window, MediaLabs was not among the firms it reached for — which is worth knowing if that question describes the work you are hiring for, and worth nothing as a judgement of how well the firm does that work.

Firms named alongside MediaLabs

When ChatGPT names MediaLabs, these firms most often turn up on the same questions: BA Media (5 shared questions), Creatify (5 shared questions), Social Tale (5 shared questions), MomentIQ (4 shared questions), Campfire (3 shared questions), Digital Media Team (3 shared questions), WE Marketing (3 shared questions) and Boundless (2 shared questions).

That overlap is the closest thing this data holds to a shortlist: these are the firms a buyer asking the same questions is most likely to see beside MediaLabs. It says nothing about which of them is the better fit.

BA Media · Creatify · Social Tale · MomentIQ · Campfire · Digital Media Team · WE Marketing · Boundless

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