What is TikTok?

Today we’re talking all about the app TikTok, which launched in 2016, and in 2018 the application gained popularity and became the most downloaded app in the USA.

TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps on the planet allowing users to upload 15-second videos that they can share with the world.

Trends include lip-syncing to an archive of popular songs dancing and collaborations allowing the user to do it with someone by replying to their video.

So look how does it work? Well it’s really simple you just download the app like what you
would any other platform and then create an account you’ll have to come up with some kind of user name. Really no different to Facebook, Instagram, or anything like that.

Watching TikTok Videos

Now once you’re logged in you can instantly start watching everybody’s videos and there are so so many videos on TikTok. This is one of the most random apps you’ll ever see.  You open up the app on your phone and then it will take you to a 15-second video and that 15-second video will just loop.

If you swipe up it will take you to the next one, so on and so on and so on. There’s a bit of a lot o when it comes to what you’ll land on when you swipe up because it really could be anything.

What you see on TikTok

Now the more time you spend on the app the more you will tap into the algorithm so
we’ll start to show you videos that are related to stuff that you’ve liked and engaged with.

From an automotive perspective, there is a lot of content added on the platform – will highlight some of the well-done ones on here as well!

But apart from that it really is just a smorgasbord of weird creative amazing bizarre videos I’ve ever come across ok then let’s talk trends so look there are definitely trends on tick-tock and just to name a few there is the Adele trend.

There’s another one when you use a finger gun no lip-syncing is a huge part of tick-tock okay it’s what a lot of people use it for lip-syncing to a song or lip-syncing to a quote from a film.

There are also some really creative people on there are artists, there are people that dance. It’s just a really random app full of really random things so as a consumer there’s plenty of
content for you to sit there and watch.

But as a creator what can we do what kind of videos can we upload to TikTok now they make it incredibly easy to shoot edit and upload a video all within a few minutes.

TikTok Experience

There’s a huge archive of music to choose from and there are different video effects you can add to your footage but what’s it like to use this app as a Video Creator.

Well, I thought I’d find out now once, so opened an account I thought I’d upload my first video now I put no thought into this just to be really clear I literally uploaded the first video that I found on my phone and within a week of that video had over 50,000 of views.

Which was just insane to me but just as an example let’s compare tick-tock to YouTube okay I upload a 15-second video on my phone and it gets 50,000 views to look at the views on this video as an experiment okay but it’s nowhere near 50,000 views right getting that amount of views is actually really difficult.

I upload a video 15 seconds long which is just hanging around on my phone and I get
50,000 views so with the first video getting so many views are put on experiment and upload some more so in the last week I’ve uploaded six videos and as you can see they’ve had varying degrees of success.

TikTok – Facebook Videos

So my first video as I mentioned did pretty well it got fifty-nine thousand views I then uploaded two more videos that you would have seen on this channel before I used these as Facebook profile videos they didn’t do very well one only got 567 views the other one got
147.

I then uploaded another video that also did terribly 158 views and then uploaded another one that did pretty well that got over 7,000 views but then I created a video specifically for tick-tock the rest of these videos were just videos that I had sat on my and that video I used one of the trending hashtags it was the finger gun and that got over 23,000 views by being
on tick-tock, for just one week I managed to get there than 93,000 two views which

I’ve got to say I’m really impressed with tick-tock I guess to sum up you could say minimal effort maximum results if you’re looking to get eyes on your content and to grow a following quickly then honestly TikTok could be one of the easiest and quickest ways to do that.

Example Automotive TikTok Videos

@jamesonlikescarsShould I make a pt.2? ##videocall ##ButterGlossPop ##strengthtraining ##cars ##car ##cardealer ##luxurycar

♬ original sound – thepeepeepoopooboys

@hotnfresh4uTexas Check!! ##fyp ##foryou ##foryoupage ##texascheck ##denton ##texas ##cardealer ##cars ##trucks ##gmc ##SnickersFixTheWorld ##boss ##dealership ##texastiktok

♬ Paper Planes – Instrumental Hip Hop Beats Crew

@abrahamurcarfriendWhat brand of car is the best investment for you and your family? ##foryou ##fy ##foryoupage ##cardealer ##salesman ##toyota

♬ Patatak – mihnea.craciun