AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

4M AI shopping shelf share

🧸 Toys · 🇦🇺 AU · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#58

Toys · AU

#40 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.3%

of AU answers

0.5% 0.3%

Sentiment

100%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the toys shelf

1 LEGO
17.1%
2 Connetix Tiles
5.3%
3 Magna-Tiles
4.6%
4 Step2
4.3%
5 Springfree Trampoline
3.5%
6 Vuly
3.2%
⋯
58 4M
0.3%

The shoppers 4M wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where 4M ranks best.

Where 4M wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

—

not surfaced

Research

#14

1.2%

Comparison

#57

0.1%

Validation

—

not surfaced

Purchase

—

not surfaced

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.0%
Google AI Mode
0.5%

What AI says about 4M

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

100% budget

“The 4M Crystal Growing Experimental Kit or a gemstone/fossil excavation dig kit lets them grow brilliant display pieces or unearth hidden treasures.”

Google AI Mode

“Science & Discovery Kits:** Crystal-growing kits (like _4M Crystal Growing)_ or introductory coding and robotics kits (like _Johnco_ ) make hands-on learning genuinely exciting.”

Google AI Mode

“4M Crystal Growing Experimental Kit :** A brilliant STEAM-focused science kit that lets them grow and display their own sparkling custom crystals.”

Google AI Mode

“The 4M Crystal Growing Kit is listed by an Australian retailer, with the kit's age recommendation and included materials worth checking before purchase.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific 4M items the engines put in front of AU shoppers.

  • Crystal Growing Experimental Kit 0.2%
  • Crystal Growing 0.0%
  • Crystal Growing Kit 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as 4M.

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as 4M, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with 4M.