TikTok Ads Integration

Last Updated: 17/4/2024     Tags: tiktok, ads, integrations, tiktok ads
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Taguchi has an API integration with TikTok which creates a seamless and automated connection between your email marketing database in Taguchi, and TikTok.

You can now easily execute multi-channel marketing campaigns, truly leveraging your companies first party data to its full potential. You may choose to suppress your email marketing audience from TikTok ad campaigns, reducing unnecessary impressions and cost. Perhaps you may wish to extend your email marketing efforts into TikTok Ads, amplifying your message via other marketing channels.

The opportunities are endless.

This integration means you don't need to manually handle your subscriber data externally between Taguchi and TikTok to achieve the above, reducing the risk of data security issues and not to mention effort.

TikTok Custom Audiences

Our simple, self-serve integration tool offers a smart and secure way to get the most out of your ad campaigns; without the risk and inefficiencies of manually handling customer data.

Use Cases

  • Suppression - Send an audience to TikTok to suppress from your paid TikTok campaigns.

  • Targeting - Target a list of subscribers or a segmented audience based on custom field matching.

  • Campaign specific targeting - If a subscriber has or has not engaged with your email, SMS or web campaigns, re-target them to amplify your message. ​

  • Website tracking - Using Taguchi Web Tracking code, re-target subscribers who have visited any page on your website.

  • Conversion targeting – Using the transaction data stored in Taguchi, target customers who have purchased a specific product or range in the past who would qualify for a cross sell promotion. Similarly, if they havent purchase a product or range, you can target those people too.

  • Invalid email - If a profile has an invalid email or no email at all, communicate to them in another way or incentivise them to update their details.

  • A combination of all of the above.

Instructions

Getting Connected

Create New List

  1. To connect your Taguchi organisation to your TikTok Ad account, the user must: ​

    • Have Administrator access to Taguchi; and​

    • Have the appropriate access level on TikTok. ​

  1. As an admin of Taguchi, you will see the ’Credentials’ page under Settings > Credentials​.

Create New List

  1. Select ‘Add new Credential’ and a new screen will pop up.

Create New List

  1. Type in a name – you may consider being specific about the account name should you operate more than 1 ad account. ​

  2. Select the ‘Credential type’ in the drop down and choose "TikTok Ads account" (note: there are other standard integration credentials available in Taguchi which are included in this list).

  3. Click Save. At this point, it will ask you to save but the account is not yet connected. ​

Create New List

  1. Once saved, this will close the screen and return you to the list of Credentials. The new Credential name will appear in this list.

  2. Click on the new credential to start the authorisation process.

Create New List

  1. Once clicked, it will re-open the credential page. What appears now, is a link to request Authorization from TikTok. ​

Request Authorization from TikTok

Create New List

  1. Click on 'Click here' to request authorisation.

  2. This will redirect you to TikTok. You will be prompted to login to your account if you have not logged into it yet. You will be asked to provide access for the "Ad Account Management" and "Audience Management" via the checkboxes for Taguchi to access the TikTok ads account. Once you have provided access, Select 'Confirm" to make the changes. ​

  3. You will be redirected to an authorisation confirmation page which will display your TikTok account ID which is now authorised.​ The TikTok Account ID shown in the page will be used for the "Target TikTok account ID" within the Integration setup page later.

  4. After 60 seconds you will be redirected back to the Taguchi platform.

Create Your Integration

New Integration

To create a new integration, ensure that you have the required User Type integration role privileges assigned to you. The 'integration' page is under Settings > Integrations.

Create New List

Select ‘New Integration’ and a new screen will popup.

Create New List

Details

Create New List

  1. Set the name of the integration.

  2. Under 'Type', select 'TikTok Ads'.

  3. The Schedule start date/time allows the integration to start at the specified time/date. When used in tandem with "Repeats" (Weekly), this allows the integration to repeat weekly at 09:00 (based on the example above).

  4. Repeats allow you to conduct the integration multiple times without having to create a new integration. You could choose either Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily and Hourly. Some platforms have processing limitation whereby it could take some time to process the data. Hence hourly repeats might be affected and daily repeat might be a preferred option instead.

Configuration

Create New List

  1. Choose the desired credential to use that you have set up in the credential page.

  2. Add the TikTok account ID of the account that you want to feed the data to. Since the TikTok account ID is not pre-populated, you would need to obtain the TikTok account ID via the TikTok Ads Account.

  3. The TikTok Audience ID is equivalent to the Taguchi List ID whereby you would be able to access the list of audiences you would like to target. To obtain the TikTok list ID, you would need to create an audience list in TikTok which would generate the ID. Once the ID has been generated, copy and paste it into the TikTok list ID input box. The TikTok Audience ID is located in your TikTok Ads Account.

Create New List

  1. Audience Update Operation allows us to "Add matching subscribers" or "Replace subscribers".

"Add matching subscribers" will add subscribers to TikTok who match the target expression set up in the integration. This is a cumulative feed.

"Replace subcribers" allows users to refresh subscriber data in TikTok with new information. This process works by removing the old data of the subscriber in TikTok and adding new information of the subscriber.

Target Expression

Create New List

Target expressions allows us to target specific subscribers in a list or based on other variables.

For more on Target Expressions see our article ‘What are target expressions?’

Save Changes and Activate

Create New List

Once you have added your Details, Configuration and Target Expression, you will be able to save changes (1) and activate (2) the integration. You can only activate once you have save changes.

Deactivate

Create New List

To stop the integration, click on Deactivate. This will stop Taguchi and TikTok from sharing data.

Active Integration

Create New List

Once the integration has been saved and activated, the on/off icon of the integration card will change from yellow (Off) to green (On) which indicates that it is now activated.

Update Integration

Create New List Create New List

If you want to update your Integration, you will be able to make the changes while it is activated or deactivated. Once the changes have been made, you will be able to update the integration by clicking on 'Save changes'. The Integration will be updated immediately.

If you are having trouble with this integration, please contact Taguchi Support for assistance.