My Tiktok going viral?

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I'm relatively new to TikTok. I made my account a few months ago just to see what it's about and fool around with some of the features. For the first 6 months that I've had TikTok, I had about 12 followers, and 100 total likes.

But slowly I've been adding more videos and showing stuff that apparently are gaining views and lots of traction....suddenly my account went viral (on a smallish scale)....just last night I went from 4k likes to 46k likes today (42,000 likes in just 24 hours) and my followers went from 100 to 2100.....yes, it's nothing close to the big timers who get millions of likes and millions of followers, but this spike in my account is putting me on notice and alert......what should I do to try and monetize or make money off this???

If I keep this up, I predict within the next month I could easily hit 100k-300k likes and 10k followers maybe more....one of my videos hit 110k views in just 12 hours...i was so stunned.

I've heard that you can't really monetize on TikTok yet. All you can do is either get sponsored by some companies that pay you money OR try to funnel your followers/views to your YouTube channel that is monetized. Any other ideas?

I'll keep you update on how my TikTok account is doing over the next month or so.
 
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Hey nice to hear about this success of yours, congratulations, you seem to be going on the right track and will definitely be curious to see your evolution, thanks for the share!
 
Update: now up to 73K likes, 3900 followers, most watched video now up to 187K views.

I need suggestions on how I can try to earn some money as it's growing. I was thinking, could I just put a link or message to my patreon account on my tiktok profile?
Is that allowed? Is anyone making money doing that?

Or how about cold emailing/calling various companies in the niche I'm in right now and telling them about my tiktok channel growing rapidly and seeing if anyone wants to sponsor me or paid shoutouts or product placement in my videos? Do companies/brands pay out to people in TikTok to do product placement or simple shoutouts?

Another option is, could I just create another youtube channel, then post the link in my tiktok account so people could go there (funnel traffic) and possibly try to hit the 1K subs and 4,000 watch hours to get monetized?
 
great yes you are getting famous and viral.
 
alonelywriter said:
great yes you are getting famous and viral.
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thanks, but any of the things I suggested viable options? I will try them out of course to see for myself, but just asking to any experienced tiktokers who have made money off it.
 
oatmeal said:
thanks, but any of the things I suggested viable options? I will try them out of course to see for myself, but just asking to any experienced tiktokers who have made money off it.
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Keep growing for now I would say. Don't rush the monetisation as it is still super early.
 
Update as of today: 145K likes, 6500 followers.

The thing is, my videos are not about cool tricks, funny act, hacks, or anything like that. Mine has no editing done and is about a 'good cause' and I know
a lot of people would want to donate money to help / support me and what I'm doing. So this is a different case when it comes to monetization. When you
are a model or musician or some funny acts, yes, I think you need to wait and let your channel grow etc. But in "good cause" niche, I think people are willing
to pay you / donate to you immediately even if you have only 100 views and 10 followers.

That's why I believe I really do need to get onto monetization as soon as possible but not sure how. I've decided to make a youtube channel for this along with
a facebook page, paypal me, and patreon account. I'm trying to set up an instagram account but for some reason it wouldn't allow me cuz I guess it recognizes
I already had another instagram account open.

The one thing, however, I remembered to keep in mind is that TikTok audience I believe is quite young....half might even be kids / teens, so they won't be able to pay / donate / become a patron. That's why I think I better try and get this thing to grow on youtube platform/facebook/instagram and then post links to my paypal.me and patreon to start receiving donations.
 
They should release it pretty soon. Keep going mate.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/15/20967028/tiktok-instagram-e-commerce-link-in-bio-monetization
 
that's good to hear. The article says the only way people on tiktok make money is off-site brand deals. What does that mean and how does that work?
Should I contact companies in my niche who might be interested to sponsor me or pay me for product placement or shoutouts? Is that what they mean?
I've just launched/branched my tiktok account into youtube channel, instagram, and facebook page.....we'll see if I can successfully funnel traffic to those platforms
and keep this thing rolling!
 
Update as of today: 213K likes, 9700 followers, I created a paypal me account because someone wanted to donate money to me, got $15 for my good cause. How nice.
I commented on my own videos saying I made a paypal me account and wrote it out....we'll see if that gets me more donations or not.

I don't know how TikTok comments work. If the creator leaves a comment on their own video, does their comment rise to the very top of the comment board so that everyone who watches my video will read my most recent comment (like a pinned post?). On youtube and facebook, creator comments always sit at the very top so everyone can read it first.
 
oatmeal said:
Update as of today: 213K likes, 9700 followers, I created a paypal me account because someone wanted to donate money to me, got $15 for my good cause. How nice.
I commented on my own videos saying I made a paypal me account and wrote it out....we'll see if that gets me more donations or not.

I don't know how TikTok comments work. If the creator leaves a comment on their own video, does their comment rise to the very top of the comment board so that everyone who watches my video will read my most recent comment (like a pinned post?). On youtube and facebook, creator comments always sit at the very top so everyone can read it first.
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I accessed my tiktok account from another phone just to see what it looks like from a visitor's perspective. Turns out creator comments are not automatically pinned to the top. I had to scroll down a long time to find my own comment left in my own video. It looks like it's rated by heart's/likes go to the top.
 
pixelander said:
may I ask whats your tiktok?
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Hey thanks for asking. Actually, I prefer to keep it private on here because it shows all of my other real contact info etc.

But I have to say that this tiktok thing is crazy unbelievable lol. It's amazing and also scary what people (esp. younger ones)
are able to do with that platform and the content they make ....looks like it's mostly just people having fun, addictive dances,
songs, acts, hacks, tricks, ....very vain, but also very creative. My videos don't have any edits or gimmicks like tiktok is famous for.
I do the old-style long-form traditional videos which are 1 minute long with no songs no special effects, just reality and down to earth
good cause.......i see that making a comeback as people yearn for more of that as they get over saturated with all the flimsy cheap
vain gimmicky stuff out there now.
 
Tiktok is future either you gonna adopt learn more about this giant or not, their massive growth surprised everyone - agree ?
 
Omar Jr. said:
Tiktok is future either you gonna adopt learn more about this giant or not, their massive growth surprised everyone - agree ?
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Hmm....I think it goes 50/50.

Here's why:
Tiktok is mobile/phone based and that's where the majority of activity is happening on nowadays so huge market.
It's also good at keeping everything short and quick like tv commercials...imagine millions of people producing superbowl-level 30 second commercials...advertisers will want to jump into this fast and it'll make superbowl ads look like small timers (ok, maybe exaggerating a bit).

Here's why not:
Over saturation. Reminds me a bit of Vine when that first came out it was so catchy, but quickly plateau'd.
I think people will sway back and forth over time. When everything is short and quick, they will yearn for long-form (hence why podcasts have taken off, long-form talks, interviews etc. When it's long-form,
they want what is quick and short.
 
oatmeal said:
Hmm....I think it goes 50/50.

Here's why:
Tiktok is mobile/phone based and that's where the majority of activity is happening on nowadays so huge market.
It's also good at keeping everything short and quick like tv commercials...imagine millions of people producing superbowl-level 30 second commercials...advertisers will want to jump into this fast and it'll make superbowl ads look like small timers (ok, maybe exaggerating a bit).

Here's why not:
Over saturation. Reminds me a bit of Vine when that first came out it was so catchy, but quickly plateau'd.
I think people will sway back and forth over time. When everything is short and quick, they will yearn for long-form (hence why podcasts have taken off, long-form talks, interviews etc. When it's long-form,
they want what is quick and short.
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This is a very interesting perspective. Can't wait to see how it all plays out over 2-3 years... We have to prepare for all types of futures
 
oolongo said:
This is a very interesting perspective. Can't wait to see how it all plays out over 2-3 years... We have to prepare for all types of futures
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Yes, I agree. It's just still mind-blowing to me what is going on these days. I'm still baffled by it, too and just wanna know how to get in on the action and get a slice of the pie while we can! It's the gold rush, the 4th industrial revolution, we won't be able to make money like this later on once this novelty all plays out and eventually gets reeled in.....right now, it's like the wild west....open market, open season, make as much money as you want and can.....


might as well just keep updating for my own record, too:
as of today, 279K likes, 12.3K followers
 
Are you willing to sell some sort of a shoutout to me?

my discord is Knipe#5768
 
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