AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season
Medicube AI shopping shelf share
🧴 Skincare · 🇬🇧 UK · updated 12 Oct 2026
Standing
#19
Skincare · UK
Shelf-share
0.7%
of UK answers
Sentiment
56%
positive
No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.
Who's on the skincare shelf
La Roche-Posay
12.9%
CeraVe
10.2%
COSRX
4.3%
Avène
4.1%
The Ordinary
3.5%
Beauty of Joseon
3.4%
Medicube
0.7%
The shoppers Medicube wins
The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where Medicube ranks best.
Where Medicube wins the journey
Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.
Awareness
#15
1.0%
Research
—
not surfaced
Comparison
#45
0.1%
Validation
—
not surfaced
Purchase
#10
2.7%
Where the engines differ
What AI says about Medicube
Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.
Sentiment
56% positive · no negative mentions
Price framing
framed premium
14% budget, 29% mid, 57% premium
“Current UK guides consistently highlight COSRX, Beauty of Joseon, SKIN1004, Purito, ANUA and Medicube.”
ChatGPT
“(Beauty Bay) - Medicube — I'd put this in the "wait for a big discount" category.”
ChatGPT
“For example, Medicube already has 2026 promotional pricing appearing, while Boots has also launched a £89.90 K-beauty advent calendar containing 26 products from brands including Medicube, COSRX and Beauty of Joseon.”
ChatGPT
“It contains 13 products, seven full-size, including products from Medicube, Anua, LANEIGE, Biodance and Beauty of Joseon.”
ChatGPT
Products AI names
The specific Medicube items the engines put in front of UK shoppers.
Shelved alongside
Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Medicube.
How to read this
Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as Medicube, relative to the rest.
Medicube on other shelves
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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with Medicube.