AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

PUMA AI shopping shelf share

🏃 Fitness & Outdoor · 🇦🇺 AU · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#122

Fitness & Outdoor · AU

#33 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.1%

of AU answers

0.2% 0.1%

Sentiment

83%

positive

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

Who's on the fitness & outdoor shelf

1 HOKA
6.2%
2 Asics
5.9%
3 LSKD
4.3%
4 Everfit
3.8%
5 Brooks
3.7%
6 Coleman
3.5%
⋯
122 PUMA
0.1%

The shoppers PUMA wins

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

Where PUMA wins the journey

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

Awareness

—

not surfaced

Research

—

not surfaced

Comparison

—

not surfaced

Validation

#85

0.2%

Purchase

#18

1.4%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.2%
Google AI Mode
0.4%

What AI says about PUMA

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

83% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed mid

33% budget, 67% mid

“Puma Velocity Nitro 4 — $126: a particularly good all-rounder.”

ChatGPT

“Puma Velocity Nitro 5 at $100 (50% off), ASICS Gel Nimbus 27 at $130 (35% off) and Nike Vomero 18 at $176 (32% off).”

ChatGPT

“_(Note: Pure road shoes can feel a touch unstable on lateral gym work, but crush running legs)._ * Puma has quietly taken over performance-to-weight ratios with incredible grip on indoor turf (crucial for HYROX sleds).”

Google AI Mode

“Best running shoes in Australia 🇦🇺 — Reddit recommendations If I were narrowing it down using runner discussions on Reddit, I’d start with ASICS Novablast, Nike Pegasus, Saucony Ride and Puma Velocity Nitro for everyd...”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

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

  • Deviate Nitro 0.2%
  • HYROX range 0.0%
  • Magnify Nitro 2 Women's 0.0%
  • Velocity Nitro 3 0.0%
  • Velocity Nitro 4 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as PUMA.

How to read this

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

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