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Leading E-commerce Platforms Brands in AI Search in China

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only AI Mode answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Shein leads AI search visibility in E-commerce Platforms on AI Mode in China with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, ahead of JD.com (77.1) and Amazon Fresh (76.0). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 75.6, and a score above 73.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is on-demand-app.com at 3.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 19.8%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.6m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · E-commerce Platforms · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
75.6
Half of the 10 ranked e-commerce platforms brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
73.5
Clearing 73.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.1 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.8
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 6%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 2%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 86%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding e-commerce platforms answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
19.8%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
69/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.6m
319k in October · ▲ 7.0% vs September
Citations parsed
11.6m
1m in October · ▼ 2.6% vs September
Brands observed
1,176
10 ranked here · 1,166 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for E-commerce Platforms, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Shein
77.7
10.3%AI Mode—64alsendo.com
02JD.com
77.1
10.2%AI Mode▼ 1.779zhihu.com
03Amazon Fresh
76.0
10.1%AI Mode—72fortune.com
04Amazon
75.8
10.0%AI Mode—67cnbc.com
05TikTok Shop
75.7
10.0%AI Mode—73gelato.com
06PetSmart
75.6
10.0%AI Mode—53zooplus.com
07Chewy
75.5
10.0%AI Mode—71zooplus.com
08Walmart
75.1
9.9%AI Mode—71cnet.com
09PayPal
74.3
9.8%AI Mode—77cnbc.com
10Zalando
73.5
9.7%AI Mode—65percentotech.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for E-commerce Platforms
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01on-demand-app.com
3.6%
—
02returnprime.com
3.6%
—
03jploft.com
3.2%
—
04outvio.com
2.7%
—
05statista.com
2.7%
—
06zhihu.com
2.7%
▲ 3.7
07icoderzsolutions.com
2.7%
—
08ripenapps.com
2.7%
—
09cnet.com
2.4%
—
10claimlane.com
2.4%
—
Top 10 of 2k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for E-commerce Platforms, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Online marketplaces for pet supplies4988
02Grocery delivery apps with reliable service1873
03Fashion e commerce sites trending this year3162
04Platforms offering easy returns and refunds4257
05网上给猫狗买东西,去哪家不容易买到坑货?113
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
JD.comscore 77.1
▼ 1.7
1 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.7/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
1,690,649 searches sampled
Tracked markets for E-commerce Platforms, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.1M
02United Kingdom182K
03Germany116K
04France76K
05Australia67K
06Canada65K
07Egypt48K
08Saudi Arabia36K
09Italy19K
10United Arab Emirates11K
11Singapore9K
12Japan8K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Shein leads E-commerce Platforms this edition with a visibility score of 77.7, ahead of JD.com at 77.1.

on-demand-app.com is the most-cited source grounding e-commerce platforms answers, at roughly 3.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 19.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 75.6, and a score above 73.5 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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Shein currently leads AI search visibility in e-commerce platforms with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

on-demand-app.com is the most-cited source in e-commerce platforms AI answers, grounding roughly 3.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked e-commerce platforms brands is 75.6. A score above 73.5 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.