Tik Tok is a social media platform that collaborated with another platform, Musical.ly as of in 2018. It is a platform where users could share videos worth 15 seconds to a minute of contents like dancing, education, or comedy. A lot of challenges were made on Tik Tok making it a trend worldwide.
For instance, one of the latest challenges would be 'Runaway Aurora Challenge’. In 2018, it was reported that there was 680M active users per month. By 2021, it was estimated to increase mover than 1.1B per month with the age range of 16 to 24 years old.
If you have seen Tik Tok videos, but never actually use it, here’s a step-by-step of using Tik Tok for beginners.
Step 1: Setting Up
To use Tik Tok you should install the application on your device first from Google Play or the App Store. When you open the app, you'll be sent to Tik Tok's homepage. On the lower right-hand side of the screen, tap on the 'Me' button.
That will lead you to the page where you can sign up. Using your phone number or email address or your pre-existing social media accounts, like Facebook.
When you have signed yourself up, it's now easier for you to edit your profile- username, bio, profile photo, or a personal link.
Step 2: "Discover" Page
Just like other social media platforms, Tik Tok also has a page where users can explore videos of other people that may relate to them or interest them. The discover page also lets you see what trending is based on the hashtag used.
There is another page on Tik Tok "For You" where algorithmically associated with previous videos that you may like, share, or commented on. And a page for “Following” showing videos of the ones you have followed.
Step 3: Following And Engaging
If you're a business owner an already have a target audience, it is better to follow and engage with Tik Tok creators that have the potential to enhance with your brand or already has. Engaging with them is easy as you can see, there's different icons on the right side.
Starting from the top, it's an icon where you can go to their profile and follow. The rest are basic engagements- like, comment, share. The last icon is a rotating icon showing you what song/music is used in the video.
Step 4: Creating Contents
Tik Tok is all about having a strong and creative concept. Production quality is the least thing that you should be worried, but of course it does help make the video look better and pleasing. To start your Tik Tok video, tap on the "+" button at the bottom-center of your screen.
You will see different icons and features. At the bottom, you can see ‘Effects’, ‘Upload’, ‘Templates’ buttons and the duration buttons (60s and 15s). When you finish recording a video on spot or use the ‘Upload’ button to insert different videos/pictures, you can sound, text, effects (like transitions), or stickers.
The most used button is the 'Effects' button as a lot of Tik Tok's trendy videos or challenges circled around these effects.
Step 5: Uploading Your Video
After finalizing your video, you just need to insert in some captions and relevant hashtags to your video to increase your reach.
How To Advertise On Tik Tok?
After learning how to use Tik Tok, it is now time to learn how to advertise using this app! Unlike other social media like Facebook or Twitter, Tik Tok is still quite new. To get started, you need to go to Tik Tok’s Ad Homepage.
Step 1: Creating Tik Tok’s Ad Account
After getting to the homepage, click on the ‘Get Started’ button.
It will lead you to the sign-up page where you can sign up using your email or phone number.
Once you signed in, a representative from Tik Tok will let you know if your business is qualified for the ad, and you will receive this kind of page.
Step 2: Creating An Ad Campaign
From here on, its steps are quite like Facebook Ads Manager if you have used them. If not, it's okay, we will go through it.
When you got in, click on the 'Campaign' button at the top and then click 'Create'. If you could see, there are three options- Campaign, Ad Group, or Ads. The campaign is the overall activity and both Ad Group and Ads functions in the campaign.
Step 3: Choose Your Objectives
Tik Tok gives you three different options to choose from- traffic, conversions, or app install. There's also a budget type in which you must choose for the whole campaign- daily or total budget.
Step 4: Setting Up The Ad Group
Like said before, the ad group is in the campaign itself. So, this is where the choices of placements and target audience takes place. There's an 'Automatic Placement' and 'Select Placement' in which you can choose from.
Then, the 'Targeting' section, allowing you to choose your target audience based on gender, location, age, languages, and more.
Step 5: Customizing Your Ad
After settling down with the steps above, customizing your ad is your last step. Tik Tok ads could be in horizontal, vertical, or a square format. To make it easier, a tool called Video Creation Kit is there to help you customize video templates and images.
You can now advertise on Tik Tok after learning how to use the app itself and creating the ad campaigns. If your business lacks creativity, there are always other businesses to inspire you and see how they have successfully put their brands on the platform!
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