New TikTok Features, Instagram & Social Commerce

High bounce rate? Try TikTok Instant Page

The newest tool from TikTok aims to help businesses to reduce their bounce rates with an engaging and fully customizable landing page that will load 11x faster than standard mobile pages.

With "instant page" access businesses can easily upload videos and carousels, whether it is a product, service, or an influencer. The customer journey from the In-Feed Ads to the landing page becomes more seamless, driving up to 40% lower cost per action.

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TikTok x Zefr Partnership

TikTok partnered with suitability company, Zefr, for a new brand safety and suitability post-bid measurement solution for In-Feed Ads on TikTok in North America (US and Canada), UK and EU (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain).

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Advertisers will be able to access insights from a third-party to ensure that their investment is delivered next to content suitable for their brand, therefore protecting the brand reputation and reducing risks. 

TikTok Stories 

This summer TikTok began to test a new feature called Stories, not yet available to the public. Stories will disappear after 24 hours, similar to other social media platforms such as Instagram's Stories. Recently the were some updates to the feature: Stories will be incorporated within the TikTok 'For You' page, however, these will be flagged with a blue flag to differentiate Stories vs. regular content and everyone can see each other stories, even if you don’t follow them.

Paid subscriptions and Live features

As reported by The Information, TikTok is considering allowing creators to charge subscriptions for their content. 

In order to test viability, Instagram recently rolled out this new feature for a limited number of influencers and creators. Allowing fans to pay a monthly fee to receive access to exclusive content from their favorite creators. Influencers are able to set their own subscriptions prices, these can range from $0.99 up to $99.99 per month.

And speaking of Instagram… 

We already discussed the importance of live-streaming in our Social Commerce report and Instagram recently introduced a very useful feature for users and influencers, that adds a profile banner to appear when a live is scheduled. This lets others know when a live event is coming up and followers can tap a “Remind Me” button!

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What is happening in the influence world? 

Some interesting case studies:

Aureta x Khrisjoy: the influencer, who has 715K followers, collaborated with the puffer jacket brand for a very special piece of clothing, a 2.900,00 € paillettes jacket - “The Galaxy Jacket” that sold out in a matter of minutes. The drop, announced on Instagram, was extremely successful and fashion lovers now have to sign up for a waiting list to try to buy the jacket, proving once again how powerful the right influencer can be. 

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If you are familiar with TikTok, you may also be familiar with the power of the TikTok community, and Alex Webber knows it best. Alex, a 22-year old who recently moved to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, became TikTok famous (he has now 3.9M followers) for living in a very tiny apartment and shopping for groceries on a budget. Recently, he shared his journey about being admitted to Julliard, but unfortunately, he got rejected after his audition. 

However, Alex received an overwhelming amount of support from his followers, that immediately started blasting the Julliard Instagram account, asking to reconsider Alex’s application and admission with the hashtag #getalexin. 

Even singer Charlie Puth, stitched Alex’s video sharing his experience and the rejection he went through in his life, reassuring Alex that attending a school like Julliard is not the only way to be successful in the industry!