This insight brief reveals how different age groups prioritize aspects of user-generated content (UGC) on product pages. While value for money and product description accuracy gain importance with age, the interest in material quality remains consistent across ages. Younger shoppers focus more on the real-life appearance of products.

This insight brief examines how shoppers value user-generated content (UGC) on product pages, focusing on aspects like value for money, material quality, product description accuracy, and real-life appearance. Highlighting UGC’s critical role in e-commerce, it emphasizes the need for brands to feature authentic customer experiences to build trust and guide purchase decisions.

This insight brief explores the critical role of shopper-generated content in online purchasing decisions. It highlights that shoppers trust and engage deeply with user-generated content, spending significant time on it, especially for costly items. The data suggests that incorporating both user and brand-generated content on product detail pages can enhance trust and relatability, influencing shopper behavior.

High-quality reviews and ratings dominate shopper focus, with visual content and timely feedback playing key roles in product page engagement, underscoring the importance of user-generated content in e-commerce strategies for customer retention.

The insight brief analyzes how age affects reliance on User Generated Content (UGC) in shopping, revealing that under 35s significantly use UGC, with a marked decrease in this trend among older age groups, impacting how brands should target their UGC strategies.