TikTok has introduced a new video shopping ads feature to its
Marketing Partners Program, naming AI-powered automation platform Smartly.io as its inaugural creative and campaign management partner.
Video Shopping Ads, explained by TikTok, are shoppable
videos that bring users from the For You page to checkout, aiming to “supercharge” sales by updating the more successful features from the company’s past e-commerce products with new
automation and smart functionalities “to maximize performance.”
"As a result of this partnership, brands can now leverage Smartly.io's Video Shopping Ad solution to sync product
catalogs, automate and streamline campaign workflows, scale creative production, and more,” TikTok wrote in a blog post.
The video-sharing platform, owned by ByteDance, says there is much
opportunity for brands to leverage Video Shopping Ads, citing internal research that shows 56% of TikTok users reporting that ads on the platform have led them to discover new products and brands,
with 48% interested in making an in-app purchase.
Through its partnership with Smartly.io, TikTok's new ad product aims to simplify advertisers' workflows through automated building,
duplicating, and launching multiple campaigns, ad groups and ads simultaneously while automatically allocating budgets across ad groups and campaigns.
Advertisers are also invited to make
automated updates to product catalogs, enhance creative assets and on-brand video templates, and leverage data from third-party data integration and KPIs for shopper engagement, according to the
company.
Smartly.io’s Video Shopping Ads offering is now available for all commerce and retail advertisers to use in their TikTok campaigns.