
New Modes 2025: How AI Rewires Shopping
Survey of 1,000 consumers in the US, UK, and AUS shows half of shoppers are in a constant shopping state. Learn where discovery starts and where purchase ends.
In our latest survey of 1,000 consumers across the US, UK, and AUS/NZ, we explore how shoppers are broadening their use of different digital channels, platforms, and apps to seek inspiration and information about brands, products, and trends.
This report reaffirms that consumers are embracing mode-centric shopping experiences and that AI platforms specifically are empowering them to get the contextual ideas and recommendations they expect.
How can brands embrace this shift and orchestrate interactions that align with consumers’ in-the-moment needs?

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Proven: Half of consumers are in a constant state of shopping
The Shopping Consciousness Spectrum
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An insights report mapping how AI and new platforms reshape discovery, comparison, and purchase, based on a 2025 survey of 1,000 consumers across the US, UK, and AUS or NZ. 
Future Commerce, with Commerce.com as a presenting partner.
n=1,000 consumers, balanced across the included countries (US, CA, UK, AUS, NZ)
Half of consumers are in a constant state of shopping. Younger cohorts, especially Millennials and Gen Z, are most likely to stay in perpetual consideration.
Discovery and research now include social and YouTube alongside search and assistants like ChatGPT. Purchases concentrate on utility platforms such as Amazon, with value marketplaces rising.
A framework that maps active and passive shopping mindsets across generations, including perpetual consideration.
Two in three Millennials, with Gen Z roughly twice as likely as Boomers to wake up thinking about commerce.
Search still leads at 34%, but YouTube 16% plus ChatGPT 13% equals 29% combined. Assistants and video are now near-parity with search for research.
People use agents (assistants) to research products, compare options and pricing, and get contextual guidance alongside search and video.
The report covers social, video, utility marketplaces, and AI assistants, reflecting daily app use for shopping tasks.
Shoppers switch into modes based on context and intent, so brands should orchestrate interactions that meet in-the-moment needs.
CMOs, eCommerce and product leaders, growth and SEO teams, and data and CX teams planning for AI, AEO, and GEO.
Publish structured product and brand data, answer comparison questions directly, and build content that assistants can parse.
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Future Commerce authored and published the report. Commerce is a presenting partner.