Topics: Digital Media, Campus Media
Social media accounted for a third of all digital advertising spending in 2022. And with good reason! Almost 5 billion people across the world use social media, and that number continues to increase. As we discussed recently, emerging media is a critical component of successful digital campus advertising campaigns. Discover what TikTok ads can contribute to your marketing efforts.
Why is TikTok useful for digital campus advertising?
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
– STEPHEN HAWKING
- Since its launch in 2016, TikTok has been downloaded 3.3 billion times.
- TikTok has 50 million active daily users.
- 1 in 3 TikTok users bought a product because they saw it on TikTok.
- TikTok was the most popular social media site among teenagers in 2022
- Almost 70% of TikTok’s advertising audience is between the ages of 18 and 34.
How should I use TikTok for advertising to college students?
TikTok covers all stages of the customer journey, from awareness, to consideration, to conversion. Advertising on TikTok can be used to:
- Introduce customers to your brand
- Announce new products or launches
- Help customers learn more about your products or services
- Generate new leads
- Drive traffic to your website or app
- Drive desired website and app actions
How can I maximize my TikTok campus advertising investment?
- Layer geo-targeted TikTok advertising on top of your OOH university advertising efforts to increase target audience awareness and engagement.
+ See successful integrated campus advertising campaigns in action.
- Create high quality ads, including copy, CTAs and visuals. Weak social media ads create negative emotional responses.
- Use video and strong visuals. This content resonates well with users and generates strong engagement. TikTok Live is particularly effective. Fifty percent of TikTok users have bought something after watching a Live.
- Use TikTok Ads Manager to launch effective ads, drive sales and measure performance.
- Leverage your audience’s interests, viewing behaviors and creator interactions to deliver relevant ads tailored to your industry and goals.
- Serve ads to people actively searching for products and services like yours.
- Use automatic targeting to dynamically optimize who receives your ads, potentially lowering CPA while increasing conversions.
- Maximize ROI with measurement tools that provide performance and content insights, so you can act and drive conversions more efficiently.
- Use TikTok Shop to allow users to go from discovery to purchase without ever leaving the platform.
+ Add social shopping to your marketing strategy today!
- In addition to conventional TikTok advertising, use influencer marketing to grow your young adult audience exponentially.
See the other posts in our Digital Campus Advertising by Platform series:
Looking for more information on how to run a successful campus media campaign? See our complete guide to advertising to university students.
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