TikTok’s added a brand new objective for its Promote advertisements, which is its personal model of Meta’s “Enhance” choice, with manufacturers now capable of optimize for DMs from potential prospects by way of third-party messaging apps, and never simply the TikTok inbox.
As you possibly can see on this explainer (posted by social media skilled Matt Navarra), now, you possibly can goal to drive DM results in different messaging apps, together with WhatsApp, Fb Messenger, LINE, and Zalo.
So as to do that, as an alternative of utilizing the “Extra TikTok messages” Promote objective, which goals to immediate shoppers to ship you a message within the app, you too can drive message visitors to different DM suppliers.

The choice is on the market for lead technology campaigns, by way of Promote, and can goal your advertisements to TikTok customers who’ve another message app put in on their system.
Solely LINE, Zalo, WhatsApp, and Fb Messenger hyperlinks are at the moment supported, so you possibly can’t use any messaging app. However it offers an alternative choice to have interaction potential prospects by way of their DM platform of selection, which may assist you generate extra direct engagement out of your TikTok lead gen campaigns.
And with DMs changing into a extra fashionable type of connection, that may very well be priceless, including extra flexibility to your outreach strategy.
The worth of this might be relative to how you employ every platform, and the place you drive results in, nevertheless it may assist to get extra interactions coming to a single inbox, versus managing a number of question surfaces.
Both means, it’s an fascinating addition.
You’ll be able to learn extra about TikTok’s “Different messaging apps” objective for Promote campaigns right here.