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Pattern

Pattern was named in 2 of the 8 TikTok Shop agency questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 16 of the 76 AI responses sampled across those questions (21.1%).

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2 / 8Questions named in
16Responses naming it
21%Of 76 sampled
2Best tier reached

Pattern is strongest on Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand?, where it was named in 12 of 43 responses (27.9%), placing it in tier 2 of that report.

Where Pattern was named

One row per report in which Pattern 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
Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand?212 of 4327.9%
Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?24 of 3312.1%

What Pattern gets named for

Across the 8 TikTok Shop agency questions measured, Pattern is named most often on Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand? — it appears in 12 of the 43 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 27.9% of them. Its next strongest question is “Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?”, where it appears in 4 of 33 responses (12.1%).

Pattern clears the reporting threshold on 2 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 Pattern’s tier placings mean

On Who can help me set up and manage a TikTok Shop for my brand?, Pattern sits in tier 2 of 3, named in 12 of 43 responses (27.9%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 44.2% of responses against Pattern’s 27.9%. It shares tier 2 with BA Media, Social Tale, MomentIQ, TikSale, TokFusion and MediaLabs, 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 Pattern from them.

On Which agencies specialize in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator programs?, Pattern sits in tier 2 of 2, named in 4 of 33 responses (12.1%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 57.6% of responses against Pattern’s 12.1%. It shares tier 2 with Maverick Creative, Creatify, DotcomMax, Social Tale, Trendr Media, Hamster Garage, Sociallyin and Advertise Purple, which the sample cannot separate from it.

Where Pattern does not appear

Pattern was not named often enough to clear the reporting threshold on 6 of the 8 questions: “What are the best TikTok Shop agencies?”, “What are the best agencies for TikTok Shop creator sourcing and management?”, “What are the best US-based TikTok Shop agencies?”, “What are the best TikTok Shop agencies for a small brand with a limited budget?”, “Which agencies work with supplement, apparel, food and home goods brands on TikTok Shop?” and “Our TikTok Shop sales stalled after a strong first month. Who can we hire to fix it?”.

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, Pattern 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 Pattern

When ChatGPT names Pattern, these firms most often turn up on the same questions: MediaLabs (2 shared questions) and Social Tale (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 Pattern. It says nothing about which of them is the better fit.

MediaLabs · Social Tale

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