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Ulta Beauty enters TikTok Shop with Rithum as integration partner 

 
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Ulta Beauty is now live on TikTok Shop, bringing one of retail’s most recognized beauty retailers into a channel where discovery and purchase increasingly happen side by side. 

For a retailer built on experience, assortment, and community, the move feels like a natural next step. TikTok Shop gives Ulta Beauty a new way to reach shoppers in the moment, when they are discovering a product for the first time, following a trend in real time, or ready to buy without leaving the platform. 

A new channel for beauty discovery, shopping, and growth 

The launch reflects a broader shift in how people shop. More consumers are finding products through content and expecting a faster path from inspiration to purchase. For Ulta Beauty, TikTok Shop offers a more direct path from discovery to checkout in a channel that is already shaping how beauty shoppers browse and buy. 

Rithum served as Ulta Beauty’s integration partner for the launch and ongoing management, supporting the work behind the scenes to bring the new channel to market. The launch builds on the long-standing relationship between the two companies. 

Ulta Beauty’s launch on TikTok Shop reflects how retailers are bringing discovery and purchase closer together. We’re proud to support Ulta Beauty as they expand into this channel and to build on the strong partnership we’ve established over time.

Blaine Nielsen, President, Retailers at Rithum

The move gives Ulta Beauty a new way to connect with shoppers as they discover and buy on TikTok Shop. It also gives the retailer another way to reach new shoppers while deepening engagement with existing ones. 

A curated experience built for TikTok Shop 

Ulta Beauty’s TikTok Shop launch reflects that strategy through a curated experience designed for the platform, including exclusive bundles, early-access moments, and creator-led discovery. The result is a shop experience that feels native to TikTok while staying grounded in what customers already expect from Ulta Beauty. 

TikTok Shop is an exciting extension of Ulta Beauty’s discovery-led ecosystem, giving us another way to meet guests where the beauty conversation is happening and bring our trusted curation to life in a TikTok-native format. We see this as a complementary, incremental channel, and we appreciate Rithum’s partnership in bringing it to market.

Josh Friedman, SVP, Digital and Ecommerce, Ulta Beauty

As social commerce continues to grow, TikTok Shop is becoming an increasingly important channel for retailers and brands that want to connect discovery and purchase more closely. Ulta Beauty’s launch extends its discovery-led approach into a new environment.