Converse's top 10 neighbors span six distinct subcategories — apparel, footwear, accessories, dining, beauty, and music retail — with no single category dominating the set, a textbook broad-shape pattern.

Audience similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. GUESS Factory leads at 0.85, followed by Tommy Hilfiger at 0.80 and Calvin Klein at 0.79 — all Apparel: General neighbors, forming the densest cluster in the top 10. Cole Haan (0.78) and LIDS (0.78) extend that apparel core, though LIDS sits in Jewelry and Accessories rather than General. The two fellow Footwear neighbors — Journeys at 0.76 and Vans at 0.75 — rank sixth and eighth, meaning Converse's own subcategory is present but not dominant in the top 10.

The more telling structural detail is what fills the remaining positions: Samsonite (0.75, Jewelry and Accessories), Hollister (0.75, General), and Panda Express (0.73, Fast Casual Dining). A fast-casual restaurant reaching position 10 — ahead of MAC Cosmetics at 0.73 and Guitar Center at 0.71 just outside the top 10 — signals that the audience shape here is genuinely cross-category, not anchored to footwear or even apparel alone.

The broad shape reflects an audience that overlaps widely across mall-adjacent retail and dining, rather than clustering tightly around any single brand type.