TikTok has introduced a new partnership with advertising giant WPP which can give WPP shoppers entry to inside instruments and choices to assist maximize their on-platform efforts, and faucet into the rising affect of the video platform.

As defined by TikTok:

“Recognizing the numerous alternatives for manufacturers that each short-form video and digital content material proceed to current, WPP can have early entry to promoting merchandise in growth, guaranteeing WPP and its shoppers stay on the forefront of innovation as TikTok additional develops its suite of merchandise for manufacturers. This contains partnering on advertising API integrations and next-generation codecs, resembling augmented actuality choices.”

The partnership will even see TikTok working with WPP on a brand new creator partnership program, as a way to facilitate model collaboration alternatives with related platform stars. WPP will even grow to be the Lead Company Growth Associate for TikTok’s creator-focused APIs, “which can incorporate WPP’s market-leading model security methodology whereas leveraging distinctive model and marketer information indicators”.

The mixing will primarily present extra alternative for WPP shoppers to maximise their TikTok efforts by way of inside collaboration and perception. WPP will even look to co-create coaching and accreditation packages for WPP businesses.

It is a vital step for TikTok and its enterprise course of, which continues to be, primarily, in growth. The largest danger for TikTok stays that it might nonetheless lose its high creators to greater platforms, like YouTube and Instagram, the place their extra mature creator ecosystems facilitate better income alternatives. For TikTok to maximise its place, it wants to supply clearer pathways to assist creators earn cash, which this new partnership with WPP aligns with, and can facilitate shifting ahead.

It additionally gives vital profit for WPP, particularly if, as projected, TikTok turns into the subsequent billion-user platform in 2021.

That would put WPP within the field seat to grow to be the important thing supplier for main model campaigns on the fastest-growing social platform.  

The partnership goes into impact from in the present day.