People come to TikTok to watch their favorite creators, discover fresh ideas and connect with their communities. We've built a full-funnel platform that enables brands to show up in those moments. At Advertising Week New York 2026, we're unveiling agentic solutions across every stage of the customer journey and expanding creative potential both on-and-off the platform.

The opportunity is significant: PF Global's TikTok's Economic Impact Report published last week found that economic activity on TikTok helped generate $81 billion in GDP for US businesses [1], with 54 million Americans purchasing a product after watching a TikTok video [2]. When content is culturally relevant, audiences connect, explore, and take action – turning attention into scalable business growth, increasingly powered by AI. That momentum is reflected in the latest findings from Kantar's Media Reactions 2026 report, which ranked TikTok as the #1 platform where marketers plan to increase ad spend in 2027 [3], with 84% of marketers placing advertising on TikTok [4].

"AI is transforming how advertiser content is created and scaled," says David Kaufman, Global Head of Monetization Product Partnerships at TikTok. "With our suite of solutions, we bringing together AI, automation, and creativity to help advertisers improve performance while reducing effort. We are enabling advertisers to create work that feels relevant, move at the speed of culture, and drive meaningful business impact."

Turning Discovery into Action

TikTok is where discovery starts. It takes people from their first scroll to a spark of curiosity to an active search for a product or inspiration. Now more than ever, discovery drives action.

TikTok is building new Agentic Commerce shopping experiences that support easy product discovery and frictionless transactions on the platform, starting with Buy Direct and Shopping Assistant. To help fuel these experiences, we are building with trusted commerce platforms and payment providers including Salesforce, Shopify, Shoplazza, Stripe, and more.

• Buy Direct is a seamless in-app checkout solution that allows users to make purchases directly from a brand, without leaving TikTok. The solution simplifies the purchase journey, allowing users to make purchases directly from the For You feed with just one click.
• Shopping Assistant is a conversational AI agent that guides users through their shopping journey. It understands context, remembers user needs, and finds the right products just for them, faster. Built into several TikTok touchpoints, Shopping Assistant provides realtime AI-powered shopping guidance like product details, shipping, sizing, availability and purchasing all within one conversation.

We are also introducing Agentic Leads, an AI Agent for lead generation that, via AI-guided conversations, enables businesses to capture, qualify and convert high-intent, actionable consumer prospects. The solution will be available across multiple surfaces including Lead Agent in TikTok Direct Message and Lead Agent in lead form on advertiser-owned websites.

Extending Campaign Reach

TikTok gives brands new ways to connect with audiences through storytelling, creators and culture, driving performance beyond the core TikTok experience. We are excited to introduce TikTok Ad Network (TTAN) to US advertisers, enabling them to seamlessly extend their campaigns beyond TikTok and reach audiences across a premium network of nearly 400,000 apps worldwide. Fully integrated into TikTok Ads Manager, TTAN has built-in brand safety and placement controls to help brands safely extend campaigns, connect with the right audiences and drive measurable business outcomes.

Building with Industry Leading Partners

We are building tools alongside our partners so brands can plan, build, and execute their TikTok advertising campaigns in the workflow of their choice. TikTok for Business Model Context Protocol (MCP), built on the open Model Context Protocol, allows developers to build AI agents and tools directly on top of TikTok Ads ecosystem to plan, launch, and manage advertising workflows with fewer manual steps. Since launch, the TikTok for Business MCP has seen over 200% increase in advertisers using our MCP for campaign activation and management [5]. We are excited to announce that the TikTok for Business MCP is now available as a connector across several AI platforms and registries, including Claude, Kimi, Manus, Perplexity, Replit, Snowflake, Tencent WorkBuddy, and the IAB Tech Lab Agent Registry.

"The TikTok MCP is indispensable to our AI-powered campaign workflows including how we build campaigns, upload creative, and analyze performance. TikTok is a leader in helping brands leverage AI to grow," states George Velonias, Head of Growth Marketing, Wayfair Canada

Expanding AI Automated Capabilities

We're making it easier to run TikTok Search Ads Campaigns by bringing advanced automation to the search ads buying process with the power of Smart+. Search Ads Campaign, powered by Smart+ gives advertisers the flexibility to automate their search ads across keywords and creative, helping to deliver the right ad to the right person to offer the best performance. With extensive keyword targeting, bidding capabilities, and search budget management, advertisers can capture diverse users' intent across vast search queries and meet them where they are.

We're also introducing Smart+ Creative Selection, a new Smart+ feature that brings together every creative source – from advertisers' own assets to Symphony's AI-generated creatives and even creator content – into one approval workflow, so advertisers can easily approve and activate creative to fuel their performance campaign. The solution surfaces the recommended groups of creatives tailored for the business and campaign objective and gives advertisers full control of what goes live.

We’re expanding on GMV Max, our TikTok Shop automated ad solution that helps sellers grow their TikTok Shop gross merchandise value by automating campaign creation and automatically pushing spend behind content that is performing well. It will further improve advertiser profitability by factoring in key business costs – like affiliate commissions, coupons, and referral fees – so advertisers can optimize for a true return on investment.

Innovation Forward

TikTok is the place to connect with audiences through storytelling, and we have the right AI tools to help you do it. With agentic commerce solutions, TikTok Ad Network, Smart+, GMV Max, and the ability to build with the agents already part of your workflow, TikTok is offering marketers the tools to identify the right audiences, translate interest into action, and drive measurable business outcomes.

We'll see you at Advertising Week!

Sources:

1. PF Global, TikTok’s Economic Impact in the United States.
2. PF Global, TikTok’s Economic Impact in the United States.
3. Kantar Media Reactions 2026
4. Kantar Media Reactions 2026
5. TikTok Internal Data, July-September 2026

TikTok is helping Swifties® dive deeper into "Patient Zero"

Taylor Swift is drawing the curtain back on The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore on TikTok with a new dedicated in-app experience giving fans even more ways to explore and celebrate the release of the single "Patient Zero." As The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore dropped, fans could search “Taylor Swift” on TikTok to navigate to the dedicated Search Hub.

Step inside Patient Zero

The experience began through a curtain-inspired Easter egg. But that’s only the first reveal.

Over the coming week, the Patient Zero experience will continue to unfold in phases, with three behind-the-scenes unlocks giving fans more to discover along the way. Every Swiftie®s will be able to return to the hub as new moments are revealed.

Fans will be able to unlock an exclusive Taylor Swift profile frame by completing a series of actions across TikTok, including following @taylorswift and @taylornation, saving “Patient Zero” to their music app, posting a video using the song, and listening to full tracks on TikTok.

Some moments will take the whole fandom: Fans can team up to reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes music video clips by gathering friends, sharing the experience and working together toward a collective goal.

The experience will also feature official videos, the full tracklist and Fan Spotlight, giving Swifties another way to take part in the moment as The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore continues to unfold on TikTok.

Taylor Swift’s music has long inspired creativity, conversation and connection across TikTok, where Swifties come together to celebrate new releases, rediscover her catalog, decode clues and share theories with fans around the world. Since first joining TikTok in 2021, Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) has cultivated one of the platform’s most passionate fanbases with over 33.4M followers and 278.6M likes. The numbers don’t lie: TikTok has become a place where fans experience her eras in real-time. From "The Fate of Ophelia" and "Opalite" viral dance trends to folklore cardigan unboxings to Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour edits, TikTok is where Swifties gather to decode & duet.

Search “Taylor Swift” or “Patient Zero” plus follow @TaylorSwift and @TaylorNation on TikTok to get started.

On TikTok, the comment section isn't just a place to react — It's where a video's story keeps going: where jokes get funnier, reactions get bigger, and total strangers connect in real time.

Features like text, photo, and video sticker comments give people new ways to say more than words ever could, turning the comment section into an experience of its own. Every day, that adds up to more than 1.7 billion comments shared across the platform. Today, we're building on that innovation with a series of new updates:

React out loud with Voice Comments

Sound and music have shaped TikTok from the very beginning, turning songs into trends and audio clips into jokes shared across the app. Now, we're bringing that same energy to the comment section with Voice Comments, a new way to post and listen to audio messages directly under any video.

To leave a voice comment, just tap the microphone icon in the comment box and record a message up to 60 seconds long. Once posted, anyone can tap to listen, turning the comment section into a place people can hear as much as read. Whether you’re laughing at a meme, singing with a creator, or reacting to a sudden plot twist, Voice Comments make it easy to say what you’re feeling — no typing required. Voice Comments are rolling out globally over the next month to accounts 18 and older.

Let viewers vote directly in the comments with Comment Polls

Creators have always found creative ways to turn the comment section into a conversation with their audience. To make that easier, we're announcing Comment Polls, a new way for creators to put decisions directly in their followers' hands. Whether it's picking an outfit, deciding what to cook, or voting on the next video idea.

To create a Comment Poll, creators can add a poll when commenting on their own video. Just tap the poll icon in the comment box, choose up to 5 options for followers to vote on, and set a timeframe for how long voting will last. As votes come in, creators can track results directly in the comment section, making it easy to see how the conversation is trending in real time. Comment Polls are now available globally.

Take photo comments to the next level with Photo Carousel and Live Photo Comments

Photo comments have become one of the most loved ways people express themselves on TikTok. And we're making the feature even more useful with two updates: Photo Carousel Comments and Live Photo Comments.

With Photo Carousel Comments, people can now add up to 9 photos in a single comment, making it easy to share a full moment instead of just one frame. For instance, if someone wants to react to a travel video with their own vacation photos, they no longer have to pick just one, they can drop the whole album in a single comment.

Live Photos capture more than a static image, they capture a moment. With Live Photo Comments, people can upload Live Photos directly from their camera roll, giving the photo comment a brief burst of motion so others get a quick preview of the moment before diving into the full image. Live Photo Comments are now available globally, and Photo Carousel Comments are rolling out globally over the next month.

We’re excited to see how creators and fans take reactions to the next level with these updates.

Fans can unlock an exclusive Tyla profile frame and discover exclusive content as TikTok celebrates the release of one of music’s biggest global stars.

TikTok is celebrating the release of South African superstar Tyla’s (17.6m followers) eagerly-anticipated new album A*POP with an exclusive in-app experience, giving fans new ways to discover the new album, celebrate with fellow fans and connect with one of the platform’s biggest global stars.

Launching today, the experience features challenges through which fans can unlock an exclusive Tyla profile frame, a dedicated Search Hub bringing together the latest videos and album content, and a Fan Spotlight where Tyla will showcase standout creations from the TikTok community.

Tyla’s rise has been closely intertwined with TikTok. Hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, her breakout hit Water became one of the defining viral music moments of 2024, inspiring millions of creators around the world to take part in the iconic #WaterChallenge dance and helping turn a distinctly South African sound into a global cultural phenomenon. Tyla has now won two Grammy Awards, cementing her place as one of the world’s most exciting and most successful new artists.

Through her music, Tyla has helped introduce 'amapiano' to millions of music fans around the world, proving that on TikTok, great music knows no borders.

Today, Tyla has more than 17 million followers on TikTok and over 30 million monthly listeners on Spotify, while Water has amassed more than 1.4 billion streams on Spotify alone. Known as the “Queen of Popiano” for her irresistible fusion of amapiano and pop, Tyla continues to bring new audiences to the genre through music that effortlessly crosses cultures and continents. Her new album, A*POP, and lead single, THAT GIRL, mark the next chapter in that journey.

Tyla said: “Watching people all over the world connect with my music, dance to it and make it their own on TikTok, has been incredible. I’m so excited for everyone to experience A*POP, and I can’t wait to see how my fans celebrate the album.”

Katrina Kernaghan, Artist Partnerships Director at TikTok, said: “Few artists have shown the global power of TikTok quite like Tyla. She has introduced the unmistakable sound of amapiano from South Africa to audiences around the world, inspiring millions of fans to discover, celebrate and create along the way. That’s exactly what makes TikTok such a unique place for music: great songs can travel anywhere. We’re excited to celebrate the release of A*POP with an experience that brings fans even closer to Tyla and her music.”

The TikTok x Tyla in-app experience includes:

• Profile Frame: Fans can complete a series of in-app challenges to unlock an exclusive Tyla Profile Frame.
• Search Hub: A dedicated destination where fans can discover videos celebrating A*POP, explore the latest album content and connect with Tyla’s global fan community.
• Fan Spotlight: A curated showcase celebrating standout fan videos inspired by Tyla and the new album.

Fans can explore the the APOP experience on TikTok by searching for "Tyla APOP" starting today.

Convert audiences into new subscribers with TikTok Streaming Ads.

TikTok is more than a platform—it's a cultural engine, shaping trends and redefining how people discover and engage with content. 4 in 5 users say TikTok inspires their streaming choices and encourages them to explore more content.¹

As the latest addition to TikTok's entertainment performance suite, Streaming Ads are designed to support always-on discovery and growth. For your biggest moments, such as new-season premieres, franchise drops, big sports games, or any marquee releases, advertisers can also use New Title Launch, a performance solution built to turn tentpole moments into efficient, scalable conversions.

Meet Streaming Ads

Powered by Smart+, Streaming Ads are a catalog-fueled performance ad solution for streaming services. Streaming Ads drive subscriber acquisition by pairing high-intent audiences with relevant titles from your content library.

Here's how Streaming Ads work:

1. Spark discovery with ad formats: Transform each ad into an interactive viewing experience by showcasing single title or multiple titles from your catalog for broader discovery and creative efficiency.
2. Showcase content range: Deliver personally-relevant, high-quality, and socially trending titles from your catalog to high-intent users.
3. Optimize performance at scale: Tap into advanced optimization powered by intent signals to dynamically deliver the right title to the right viewers—improving engagement and conversion outcomes.

"Entertainment advertisers are increasingly turning to TikTok as a powerful audience-building engine. We're listening to their evolving needs and are continuously developing new tools that allow them to reach high-intent viewers and drive key business results like subscriptions and ticket sales - all while delivering a more personalized, engaging experience for our users."
Tao Baecklund, Global Head of Content & Services Ads
TikTok

Streaming Ads creative ad formats

Streaming Ads offer different ad formats to engage with viewers and drive conversions:

Multi-Show Experience

Grab attention with an auto-play video carousel experience designed to drive audience exploration and engagement with personally relevant title offerings. This ad format consists of four video tiles delivered from a streaming service advertiser's entertainment catalog.

Learn how Peacock drove incremental subscriptions with Multi-Show Experience here.

Media Card

Enhance your standard video with an interactive add-on that highlights multiple titles from your content catalog.

• Title Headline
• Cover Image
• Customizable text fields (e.g., genre, IMDb review count)
• Auto-scrolls to a new card within the catalog every 4 seconds

Singular Media Card

Enhance your standard video with an interactive add-on. A single streaming card appears after the video begins, displaying key title information such as the title name, genre, and IMDb rating.

Built for performance, designed for streaming

Streaming Ads combine automation, scale, and creative relevance to deliver measurable outcomes. In early testing, 80% of Streaming Ads campaigns outperformed non-Streaming Ads campaigns.²

With Smart+ AI-powered capabilities, advertisers can achieve:

• Better performance - Drive efficient conversions by leveraging an entertainment-specific backend model that pairs high-intent users with the content they're most likely to subscribe to.
• Operational efficiency - With Smart+ automation, setting up a Streaming Ads campaign is simple. TikTok handles bidding, optimization, and delivery — so advertisers can focus on strategy, not manual tuning.
• Creative made easy - Reduce creative fatigue and production costs by automating creative testing and optimization at scale. Engaging front-end formats like Media Card, Singular Media Card, and Multi-Show Experience dynamically assemble personalized ad experiences from your content library.

Transform streaming discovery

With Streaming Ads, TikTok is flipping the script on performance advertising, helping streaming services turn discovery into subscriptions, and attention into action. Combined with tentpole solutions like New Title Launch, advertisers can drive increased performance across both everyday discovery moments and peak launch periods. In fact, 60% of New Title Launch program promotions outperformed advertisers' stated TikTok Ads Manager CPA goals,³ demonstrating this solution's ability to efficiently scale performance during major releases.

With the power of fandom on TikTok, advertisers can drive full-funnel business impact. In addition to driving new subscriptions, TikTok users were found to be 167% more likely to maintain a streaming service subscription to participate in online discourse,⁴ highlighting how TikTok helps sustain long-term engagement. Streaming Ads prove that when cultural relevance meets performance, viewers don't just watch, they engage, subscribe, and keep coming back.

Ready to get started? Learn more about Streaming Ads here.

Sources:

1. TikTok Marketing Science US Custom Streaming Subscribers Survey via AYTM, June 2024. [Q3] (n=500)
2. TikTok Campaign Testing Data Q3'24-Q4'25
3. TTAM platform data, most recent NTL Program observation period (Q2’25). NTL Program has now evolved into NTL promotion campaign settings in TTAM. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance.
4. TikTok Marketing Science US Custom Streaming Subscribers Survey via AYTM, June 2024.

This document is the property of TikTok Inc. and is intended solely for informational purposes. The recipient shall not distribute, exhibit or otherwise use this document for any other purpose. TikTok undertakes no obligation or responsibility to update any of the information contained in this document. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance.

Convert audiences into new subscribers with TikTok Streaming Ads.

TikTok is more than a platform—it's a cultural engine, shaping trends and redefining how people discover and engage with content.

4 in 5 users say TikTok inspires their streaming choices and encourages them to explore more content.¹

As the latest addition to TikTok's entertainment performance suite, Streaming Ads are designed to support always-on discovery and growth. For your biggest moments, such as new-season premieres, franchise drops, big sports games, or any marquee releases, advertisers can also use New Title Launch, a performance solution built to turn tentpole moments into efficient, scalable conversions.

Meet Streaming Ads

Powered by Smart+, Streaming Ads are a catalog-fueled performance ad solution for streaming services. Streaming Ads drive subscriber acquisition by pairing high-intent audiences with relevant titles from your content library.

Here's how Streaming Ads work:

1. Spark discovery with ad formats: Transform each ad into an interactive viewing experience by showcasing single title or multiple titles from your catalog for broader discovery and creative efficiency.
2. Showcase content range: Deliver personally-relevant, high-quality, and socially trending titles from your catalog to high-intent users.
3. Optimize performance at scale: Tap into advanced optimization powered by intent signals to dynamically deliver the right title to the right viewers—improving engagement and conversion outcomes.

Entertainment advertisers are increasingly turning to TikTok as a powerful audience-building engine. We're listening to their evolving needs and are continuously developing new tools that allow them to reach high-intent viewers and drive key business results like subscriptions and ticket sales - all while delivering a more personalized, engaging experience for our users.

Tao Baecklund, Global Head of Content & Services Ads
TikTok

Streaming Ads creative ad formats

Streaming Ads offer different ad formats to engage with viewers and drive conversions:

Multi-Show Experience

Grab attention with an auto-play video carousel experience designed to drive audience exploration and engagement with personally relevant title offerings.

This ad format consists of four video tiles delivered from a streaming service advertiser's entertainment catalog.

Learn how Peacock drove incremental subscriptions with Multi-Show Experience here.

Media Card

Enhance your standard video with an interactive add-on that highlights multiple titles from your content catalog.

• Title Headline
• Cover Image
• Customizable text fields (e.g., genre, IMDb review count)
• Auto-scrolls to a new card within the catalog every 4 seconds

Singular Media Card

Enhance your standard video with an interactive add-on. A single streaming card appears after the video begins, displaying key title information such as the title name, genre, and IMDb rating.

Built for performance, designed for streaming

Streaming Ads combine automation, scale, and creative relevance to deliver measurable outcomes. In early testing, 80% of Streaming Ads campaigns outperformed non-Streaming Ads campaigns.²

With Smart+ AI-powered capabilities, advertisers can achieve:

• Better performance - Drive efficient conversions by leveraging an entertainment-specific backend model that pairs high-intent users with the content they're most likely to subscribe to.
• Operational efficiency - With Smart+ automation, setting up a Streaming Ads campaign is simple. TikTok handles bidding, optimization, and delivery — so advertisers can focus on strategy, not manual tuning.
• Creative made easy - Reduce creative fatigue and production costs by automating creative testing and optimization at scale. Engaging front-end formats like Media Card, Singular Media Card, and Multi-Show Experience dynamically assemble personalized ad experiences from your content library.

Transform streaming discovery

With Streaming Ads, TikTok is flipping the script on performance advertising, helping streaming services turn discovery into subscriptions, and attention into action. Combined with tentpole solutions like New Title Launch, advertisers can drive increased performance across both everyday discovery moments and peak launch periods. In fact, 60% of New Title Launch program promotions outperformed advertisers' stated TikTok Ads Manager CPA goals,³ demonstrating this solution's ability to efficiently scale performance during major releases.

With the power of fandom on TikTok, advertisers can drive full-funnel business impact. In addition to driving new subscriptions, TikTok users were found to be 167% more likely to maintain a streaming service subscription to participate in online discourse,⁴ highlighting how TikTok helps sustain long-term engagement. Streaming Ads prove that when cultural relevance meets performance, viewers don't just watch, they engage, subscribe, and keep coming back.

Ready to get started? Learn more about Streaming Ads here.

Sources:

1. TikTok Marketing Science US Custom Streaming Subscribers Survey via AYTM, June 2024. [Q3] (n=500)
2. TikTok Campaign Testing Data Q3'24-Q4'25
3. TTAM platform data, most recent NTL Program observation period (Q2’25). NTL Program has now evolved into NTL promotion campaign settings in TTAM. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance.
4. TikTok Marketing Science US Custom Streaming Subscribers Survey via AYTM, June 2024.

This document is the property of TikTok Inc. and is intended solely for informational purposes. The recipient shall not distribute, exhibit or otherwise use this document for any other purpose. TikTok undertakes no obligation or responsibility to update any of the information contained in this document. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance.

Built on TikTok for Business MCP, this all-new marketplace connects AI agents directly to your daily tools, allowing you to create, manage, analyze, and optimize TikTok Ads with less manual work.

Running successful campaigns requires constant decision-making. When performance changes, it's not always obvious why. Is it your audience, creative, or bidding strategy? At the same time, campaign setup, optimization, reporting, and creative management can take hours of manual work.

That's why we're introducing Agentic Hub, TikTok's marketplace for AI-powered advertising solutions built with TikTok for Business MCP.

Together, they help advertisers manage campaigns more efficiently, uncover insights, make informed decisions, and take action through AI. This makes TikTok Ads accessible within the AI tools and workflows advertisers already use.

Meet Agentic Hub: Scale campaigns with AI Skills

Agentic Hub gives advertisers access to ready-to-use, first-party and third-party AI Skills designed to help with everyday marketing tasks, from campaign creation and creative generation to performance analysis and catalog management.

These ready-to-use Skills enable AI agents to support key advertising tasks, reduce manual work, and help manage campaigns more efficiently.

What can AI Skills help with?

• ✓ Campaign creation and management
• ✓ Creative generation and optimization
• ✓ Performance analysis and diagnostics
• ✓ Audience insights
• ✓ Catalog and product management

What this means for advertisers

AI Skills go beyond automation. By analyzing lots of data and synthesizing insights into actionable recommendations, they help advertisers make smarter decisions, execute more efficiently, and focus on strategic priorities.

How TikTok for Business MCP powers AI Skills

AI-powered advertising solutions are most effective when they can connect with advertising tools.

TikTok for Business MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the system that enables this connection. It allows AI agents to securely interact with TikTok Ads and access key advertising capabilities, including campaign management, performance reporting, creative management, and more. This means advertisers can use simple instructions to help manage and optimize campaigns, without API credentials, coding, or complex setup.

For more tailored needs, advertisers and developers can use MCP to build custom Skills and workflows designed around their business. This gives them the flexibility to create their own solutions alongside the ready-to-use Skills available in Agentic Hub.

Advertisers can also connect their own AI agents directly to MCP to manage TikTok Ads without using a pre-built Skill. In other words, MCP can power ready-made Skills, custom Skills, or direct connections between an advertiser’s agent and TikTok Ads.

A growing ecosystem of AI-powered advertising solutions

Developers and technology partners are already building across the ecosystem.

Today, developers and partners including HubSpot, Wix, Constant Contact, WorkMagic, Innovid, Kochava, Shoplazza, MADHOUSE, Mobvista, HuntMobi, Cyberklick, Storyverse, BELLNOVA, and AI Rudder have published AI Skills supporting a variety of advertising workflows, including campaign creation, creative generation, catalog management, ad analysis, and performance diagnostics.

As the ecosystem grows, advertisers will have access to even more AI-powered solutions designed to simplify campaign management and unlock new ways of working.

Ready to get started?

TikTok Agentic Hub

Browse Agentic Hub to discover AI Skills for TikTok advertising
Learn more

TikTok API for Business Guide

Learn more about TikTok for Business MCP and how AI-powered solutions connect to TikTok Ads
Learn more

Have questions?

Reach out to [email protected] for more info.

This document is the property of TikTok and is intended solely for informational purposes. The recipient shall not distribute, exhibit or otherwise use this document for any other purpose. TikTok undertakes no obligation or responsibility to update any of the information contained in this document. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance. Results may vary.

The UGC you need already exists. Content Suite helps you find it

Content Suite's latest Al updates make it easier than ever to source and activate the right UGC for your brand.

There's no shortage of creator and user-generated content (UGC) on TikTok featuring brands, products, and real customer experiences. The challenge for marketers is not whether that content exists. It's finding the right videos quickly, understanding which ones best fit a campaign, and moving from discovery to activation without slowing everything down. That's where Content Suite comes in. Available in both TikTok One and TikTok Ads Manager, Content Suite helps brands discover, activate, and scale UGC into high-performing ads.

Today, we're introducing a new Al Search capability, powered by Symphony Agent, designed to help advertisers quickly find, review, and shortlist existing creator and UGC videos already being made about their brand. Built to reduce manual review and speed up activation, the Al-powered agent helps turn a large pool of brand-relevant TikTok content into a focused shortlist that is easier to act on.

But discovery is just the start. To help you organize and scale your content more effectively, we've also added two new features: Projects and Creators. Together, these updates make Content Suite an even more powerful platform for effortlessly discovering and expanding brand-mentioned content.

Meet Content Suite Al Search

If you've ever tried to source creator content for a campaign, you know the process can get overwhelming fast. Thousands of videos may already exist about your brand. Some may be strong creative fits. Some may speak to the right audience. Some may align with the tone of your campaign. But finding those videos manually means spending time searching, sorting, reviewing, and deciding which ones actually have potential.

Content Suite's new Al Search agent changes that. Instead of manually digging through a large volume of creator and UGC content, advertisers can provide the Al agent with what they're looking for, whether that's a campaign brief, brand guidelines, or more specific inputs around goal, audience, or tone. The Al agent then searches, filters, ranks, and recommends the most relevant videos for the campaign.

Built on Content Suite's access to brand-relevant TikTok content, Al Search is designed to help you:

• Discover the right content for your brand faster: Quickly search through existing creator and UGC videos already made about your brand.
• Get matches built around your campaign: Drop in your creative specifications or brand guidelines and let the Al agent surface best-fit videos based on the details that matter most.
• Review a more focused shortlist: Turn a broad pool of content into a manageable set of options that's easier to evaluate and activate.
• Prioritize videos with stronger potential: Use TikTok performance insights to rank videos based on their likelihood to drive your campaign goals.
• Move to activation faster: Reduce manual review and leverage existing creator content to accelerate campaign execution. In short, Content Suite's Al Search helps you spend less time searching for content and more time launching great creative.

More to explore in Content Suite

As part of this evolution, we're also introducing two new features to help marketers manage creator workflows beyond discovery.

Projects

Projects is a new functionality that helps advertisers brief creators for upcoming campaigns by tapping into a pool of creators who are already posting about their brand and products, and reach them in just a few clicks with built-in automated brief generation. This matters because working with creators who know your brand leads to more authentic content and stronger engagement than cold outreach. Projects also provides teams with a structured way to maintain and manage their creative supply and streamline the path from planning to content activation.

Creators

Creators is an all-in-one management tool that helps advertisers keep track of the creators who matter most to their brand. Within the Creator section, brands can see who is already talking about them, find creators they've worked with before through their Spark Ads history, and build and maintain custom creator lists, including ambassadors and affiliates. It's a simpler way to keep valuable creator relationships organized, visible, and easier to activate over time.

A more connected workflow from discovery to activation

With Al Search, Projects, and Creators, Content Suite is now the centralized solution for marketers to move from discovery to action. The goal is still the same: help brands make better use of the creator and UGC content already being made about them on TikTok.

Together, these updates make it easier to find relevant content, organize the next steps, and build on what's already working for your brand. Instead of managing each part of the process separately, marketers can move through it more seamlessly, from identifying the right content to activating it with greater speed and confidence, while driving real results and impact.

Ready to give Content Suite a try? Visit TikTok One or TikTok Ads Manager, or reach out to your TikTok representative to learn more about access and availability.

This document is the property of TikTok and is intended solely for informational purposes. The recipient shall not distribute, exhibit or otherwise use this document for any other purpose. TikTok undertakes no obligation or responsibility to update any of the information contained in this document. Past performance does not guarantee or predict future performance. Results may vary.

Your AI-powered creative engine, built to make authentic, trend-driven ads at scale

We're living in a world where content moves fast: short-form, high-volume, and always-on. In this environment, creating great ads isn't just about a flash of inspiration. It's about recognizing patterns, focusing on what works, and doing it all at scale.

But the tools at our disposal aren't keeping up. Uncovering insights still relies on heavy manual effort. Ad scripts generated through generic AI tools have no real understanding of TikTok trends. And turning those ideas into a finished video? That is still mostly a process of trial and error. To help break this cycle, TikTok has introduced Symphony Agent, a new AI solution designed to capture the latest trends, create content with ease, and match your brand with the right creators and content so that your creative supply chain stays running smoothly.

Your new AI-powered creative partner

Anchored in TikTok's own platform signals, Symphony Agent now powers several of our core creative solutions, including Symphony Creative Studio, Content Suite, and TikTok One.

Symphony Creative Studio

In Symphony Creative Studio, TikTok's AI-powered video generation tool, Symphony Agent helps you move from brief to video using just a few prompts. Symphony Agent leverages data from top-performing ads, TikTok trends, and your own business goals and brand guidelines to create made-for-TikTok videos using Symphony's generative AI features, including image-to-video, avatars, and script generation. The workflow guides you seamlessly from concept to final video, with editing and refinement available at every step.

Symphony Agent shows up on the home page as a prompt box, where advertisers can upload a product image and select a TikTok trend for inspiration—whether a template, a top ad trend, or a custom reference video. This kicks off the agent workflow, which generates a video based on the chosen inspiration.

Once you start the workflow, you'll be guided through creating a product brief, insight report (available with top ad trends or uploaded reference videos), storyboard, and final video. You can give feedback directly in the prompt box to update any deliverables.

The tool offers great flexibility to rewrite storylines, adjust scenes, modify voiceovers, change tone or calls to action, and highlight new selling points. Plus, an edit button opens a side panel for precise, detailed adjustments.

Symphony Agent has the ability to reimagine high-performing ads by analyzing key trends such as hooks, storytelling patterns, and CTAs. It extracts creative structures and strategies to generate original content inspired by these trends.

The final video output is tailored to your specific brand objectives, creative direction, and provided assets. This feature intelligently learns from what works and transforms it into content uniquely suited to your campaign.

Video generation times may vary based on complexity and revisions. On average, a 12-second video is generated in about 3 minutes, while a 20-second video takes about 5 minutes. You can request up to 3 video variations at a time for A/B testing, with different characters, scenes, or creative directions. This supports fast experimentation and performance optimization.

Content Suite

In Content Suite, a tool for discovering brand-relevant content across TikTok, advertisers can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of videos available, making it difficult to efficiently identify the right assets for each campaign.

Content Suite's AI Search (powered by Symphony Agent) helps you easily find and scale existing creator videos related to your brand. Simply click the 'AI Search' button, input your creative needs & specific details, and confirm the search criteria to generate a shortlist of videos that match your prompt.

Content Suite's AI Search streamlines the process of finding the perfect videos aligned with your campaign goals, audience, and tone. It reduces manual effort by quickly narrowing thousands of brand-related videos into a shortlist of highly relevant, actionable recommendations.

TikTok One

Symphony Agent is now available on TikTok One, TikTok's all-in-one creative platform for creator marketing. Built to boost creator marketing efficiency, Symphony Agent cuts manual busywork and streamlines creator marketing workflows. It turns your campaign goals into refined briefs, delivers precise creator matching tailored to your needs, and supports scalable creator outreach via one-click batch invites.

Getting started is simple. Input your campaign requirements—whether written text, PDF documents, or product URL—covering your campaign objectives, target audience and ideal creator persona. Symphony Agent will instantly produce a complete, ready-to-launch campaign brief.

Next, you can create a dedicated TikTok One project with just one click, and get a curated shortlist of 20 recommended creators. Each recommendation comes with detailed fit rationale, clarifying why they are well-suited for your campaign. From there, you can refine the results by adding or revising screening criteria, or prompting the AI agent to generate more creator candidates or similar creator profiles.

Once you finalize your creator lineup, you can add selected creators straight to your project and send batch invitations in one seamless step, keeping your campaign on track without the extra manual effort.

This agentic AI upgrade represents TikTok One's continuous evolution toward smarter creator marketing solutions, helping free marketers up to focus on building campaigns and bringing creative ideas to life.

We are all in on TikTok One Creator Marketing Agent because we believe it can help agencies and brands move with the speed, intelligence, and cultural relevance needed to compete and win in today's beauty landscape.
Ashley Banks
Chief Client Officer and Partner, Iced Media

Built with responsibility at its core

All of TikTok's AI-driven features are developed responsibly with a commitment to transparency, accountability, fairness, privacy, and safety. Our teams rigorously apply these principles across all AI-powered experiences and consult with experts to ensure ethical implementation throughout the platform.

Transforming creative workflows

We live in a fast-paced world where creating great ads means quickly recognizing patterns, leveraging what works, and scaling effectively. TikTok's Symphony Agent empowers marketers by turning cultural insights into actionable creative tools, helping teams build trend-driven videos, discover relevant creator content, and find the right creators for campaigns.

By streamlining workflows and leveraging AI responsibly, Symphony Agent enables faster, smarter, and more authentic campaign execution, giving brands the tools they need to succeed in today's dynamic content landscape.

Ready to get started? Check out Symphony Creative Studio or TikTok One today.

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Step into the story

Today, TikTok is unveiling a new immersive in-app experience celebrating three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo’s (@livbedumb) new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, drawing from the album’s expressive and emotional themes. Through interactive missions, exclusive rewards, and collaborative unlocks, fans can celebrate the music they love and help shape the story of the album together.

Bringing the album’s dreamlike aesthetic to life on TikTok, the experience gives fans new ways to celebrate and personalize their fandom through exclusive album-inspired features and rewards.

Throughout the experience, fans can explore a custom-themed LiviesHQ bulletin board and use album-inspired DM bubbles to bring the aesthetic into conversations with friends across TikTok.

Fans can also participate in album activities—including saving tracks and contributing toward community milestones—to unlock exclusive rewards, including:

• A custom profile frame inspired by the album’s visual identity
• An exclusive behind-the-scenes video

Inspired by the album’s soft visuals and intimate storytelling, the experience extends the world of the album beyond the music itself, creating new ways for fans to connect with both the project and each other on TikTok.

At the center of the experience is a collective fan challenge. By sharing videos and participating in album-related activities, the community works together to reveal a hidden piece of content waiting behind a digital lock and key.

A home for fan creativity

The experience also features a dedicated destination for content inspired by you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, including official videos from the album, and curated fan spotlights.

Also, CapCut has partnered with Olivia Rodrigo to launch exclusive signature templates inspired by her new album, giving Livies access to exclusive CapCut templates to create their own “so in love” edits. Just drop memories into her signature aesthetic and let the story unfold.

Whether through music covers, visual art, personal reflections, or cinematic edits made with CapCut, the experience highlights the many ways fans connect with the album’s exploration of longing, vulnerability, joy, and self-discovery.

Olivia Rodrigo has cultivated a vibrant community on TikTok with over 25.8M followers, and her songs have soundtracked countless viral fan performances and deeply personal storytelling moments. Her single from the album, "drop dead," has over 121K posts on TikTok and has inspired a widespread trend showing how people fell in love with their partners. In April, in partnership with Interscope Records, TikTok launched a hub for a global karaoke experience inspired by the release, turning 24 cities around the world into stages for fans to show up, sing loud, and share their moments on the platform.

From "drivers license" to present day, Olivia’s presence on TikTok continues to shape how music is discovered, shared, and felt.

Fans can collect 144 digital cards across all 48 nations by completing daily tasks to unlock rewards inside TikTok's FIFA World Cup™ Fan Experience Hub

TikTok today announced a digital-first partnership with Panini, FIFA's exclusive partner for official stickers and trading cards, to bring a collectible card experience to fans globally.

The Panini digital card collection will live within TikTok's FIFA World Cup™ Fan Experience Hub, available now to fans worldwide.

To get started, fans can search for "World Cup" on TikTok, tap Visit FIFA World Cup™ hub, then select Play Now to begin unlocking their Panini card collection.

"Panini has shaped soccer collecting culture for generations, and this partnership brings that tradition to a social platform for the first time," said Rollo Goldstaub, Global Head of Sport, TikTok. "Together, we're giving fans something they already love, collecting and supporting their teams, and making it feel native to TikTok by creating moments that deepen connection and drive fandom."

"At Panini, the collector's experience is at the heart of everything we do. We are constantly evolving to make it more engaging, diverse, and in step with the way fans connect with football today. This collaboration with TikTok allows us to expand that experience into a new social dimension, while also offering football fans a fresh and immersive way to live and express their passion for the game," said Elisabetta Mussini, Panini Group Licensing and Partnerships Director.

The Fan Experience Hub will feature 144 collectible cards spanning all 48 teams competing in the tournament.

Each nation will be represented by three distinct cards:

• Country Emblem: A card representing each nation's badge and identity
• Star Player: Featuring a standout athlete from each competing team
• Icon Card: A legendary figure from each nation's football history

Fans will be able to unlock cards by completing daily tasks such as following accounts or commenting on posts, with new activities rolling out through the duration of the FIFA World Cup 2026™. Wild cards can also be earned by achieving specific milestones and duplicate cards can be traded to further enhance collections; the more cards fans collect, the more rewards they will unlock.

Start building your collection on TikTok today!

Below is today's news made by TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC.

Fandom and community have always lived on TikTok. From live entertainment events and cultural trends to creator commentary and global connection, TikTok is where people come together in real time around the moments they care about most. With 72% of users enjoying fan-made sports content, TikTok turns global football passion into a shared, participatory experience.

Today, we are launching a pilot of TikTok Pro Events in the U.S., a dedicated standalone application designed to deepen community immersion during major cultural milestones. Debuting with FIFA World Cup 2026™, TikTok Pro Events allows users to engage with global fan culture, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds directly within the app.

By completing fan-based tasks within the app – like searching for trending hashtags, visiting the FIFA World Cup 2026™ hub, and sharing content – users 18+ can earn stars that can be redeemed for exclusive benefits. These include official FIFA World Cup 2026™ merchandise through a dedicated in-app redemption store, TikTok Shop coupons valid for any purchase across the platform, or the opportunity to direct TikTok-funded charitable donations. To turn fan engagement into real-world impact, TikTok has partnered with Feeding America®, allowing users to direct platform-funded donations to help end hunger.

“We can end hunger when we come together, and our partnership with TikTok gives sports fans a simple and meaningful way to be part of that effort,” said Monica Lopez Gonzalez, chief marketing and communications officer at Feeding America. "By engaging with tournament content on TikTok Pro Events, the fan community can help direct earned Stars toward donations that support neighbors facing hunger. It’s a powerful example of how everyday actions, when multiplied across a community, can create meaningful impact and help ensure everyone has access to the food and resources they need to thrive.”

Alongside the behind-the-scenes perspectives delivered by our FIFA World Cup 2026™ Creator Correspondents, users can access our wider FIFA World Cup 2026™ Hubs within the main TikTok app by searching "FIFA World Cup." These hubs are powered by TikTok GamePlan — a comprehensive product suite that allows sports teams, leagues, and broadcasters to drive discovery, deepen engagement, and deliver real business results. This offers fans a dedicated space to discover content, creators, and broadcaster highlights from the tournament.

The TikTok Pro Events experience is now live for users in the U.S., debuting with the dedicated Fan Hub for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ as its inaugural pilot. Users can download TikTok Pro Events via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to join the experience.