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TikTok Ads Basics

Spark Ads and campaigns.

Organic vs Paid

Organic reach on TikTok is powerful but unpredictable. Paid ads through TikTok Ads Manager let you guarantee distribution, target precisely, and scale what works.

Most brands use both: organic to test creative cheaply, then paid budget to amplify the videos that already prove they resonate.

Organic: free, slow, unpredictable
Paid:    costs money, fast, controllable

Smart play: test organic ->
  promote the winners with ads

The Ads Manager Hierarchy

TikTok Ads Manager organizes everything into three levels. The campaign holds your objective, the ad group holds targeting and budget, and the ad holds the creative itself.

Understanding this structure helps you control spend and test variables cleanly, since each level governs different decisions.

Campaign  -> objective + total budget
  Ad Group -> audience, placement,
              schedule, bid, budget
    Ad     -> the video creative + CTA

All lessons in this course

  1. The TikTok Algorithm
  2. Creating Native Content
  3. TikTok Ads Basics
  4. Creators and UGC
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