How to Find TikTok Influencers and Content Creators

If you’ve been searching upper and low for influencers to work with on TikTok, you’re not alone. As increasingly brands have widow the platform to their influencer marketing strategies, increasingly marketers have been tasked with finding the right content creators to partner with. If you’re one of them, we’re here to help.

In this blog post, we’ll explain how to find TikTok influencers that uncurl with your trademark and take your marketing to the next level.

First Things First: What Is TikTok?

TikTok is a social media platform similar to Instagram. Instead of pictures, though, TikTok focuses on short-form videos, often accompanied by music, hashtags, and memes — so many memes.

The app is incredibly popular with younger adults, expressly Gen Z (hence the memes). And that popularity is only expected to grow. By 2023, eMarketer predicts TikTok will overtake Snapchat in total number of U.S. users (89.7 million versus 89.5 million).

Instagram still leads the U.S. with 127.2 million users, but TikTok is latter in. Worldwide, TikTok’s unscientific 1 billion users trails Instagram’s 1.5 billion — but what’s half a million people when you’re the hottest app on the planet?

TikTok has been misogynist on iOS and Android since 2018. Yet the short-form video app has only recently gained popularity with advertisers, thanks to its astronomical user growth in 2019 and 2020. In fact, TikTok for Business, the app’s own how-to website for marketing on TikTok, just launched in Summer 2020.

Now that you’re all unprotected up, let’s swoop in to unquestionably using the platform and finding TikTok influencers to work with.

How to Find TikTok Influencers

TikTok is a platform unlike any other. Its young user base, fast-paced content, social awareness, and joint understanding of memes and current pop culture make it an intimidating space for brands to enter.

Unless, of course, you’re working with TikTok influencers. These content creators are masters of the platform, know what works and what doesn’t, and can help your merchantry resonate with your target audience. Here’s how to find them.

Google It

It’s an obvious answer, but we have to say it: just google it first. Try starting wholesale and then narrowing lanugo once you have a finger for who’s out there. For example, you could search for “top TikTok influencers,” and then narrow it lanugo by niche or vertical, as in “top TikTok malleate influencers.”

Search for Hashtags

Hashtags are an essential part of TikTok; scrutinizingly every post has them.

Simply searching for hashtags in your industry or niche can lead you to content creators that would uncurl well with your brand. When you find a TikTok influencer who uses a hashtag your merchantry relates to, it’s likely that influencer’s followers are interested in the hashtag, too.

Keep a list of relevant and trending hashtags to squint up. Note which ones point you in the right direction (and which ones are duds) to refine your search as you go. Things move quickly in the world of TikTok, so leverage the app’s Discover full-length to stay on top of trending hashtags.

Once you find an influencer who matches your goals, reach out to them. If they don’t provide contact info in the platform, do a little uneaten searching to find them outside of it. (Remember, “outside” of TikTok includes other influencer-focused platforms like Instagram, where anyone can now share links in Stories.)

Research Areas of Interest

What’s your platonic influencer interested in? Are they all well-nigh exercise and healthy eating, or are they passionate well-nigh traveling on a budget?

Finding influencers who match your main industry can be as easy as searching like you would for hashtags. Try searching a variety of terms related to your vertical or brand, as content creators may not use the word-for-word keyword you’re used to.

It may moreover help to dig a little deeper to squint into an influencer’s bio to find out what they’re truly interested in. And don’t forget that they are likely zippy on other social media platforms, too. Cross-referencing their TikTok bio with their Instagram or Facebook profile may requite you insights you would have missed if you looked at TikTok alone.

Check Out the Competition

What are similar brands doing on TikTok, and who are they working with? Checking out your competition is an easy way to find the content and creators that are once resonating with your target audience. You can search for a trademark both to find out who shows up in their videos (or tags them in theirs), and to see related brands and influencers in TikTok’s suggested accounts.

Whether or not you want to work with the word-for-word same influencers as a rival is up to you. Once you know who they are, though, you can use that information to find similar influencers — ones who aren’t once tied to a competitor.

Use a Specialized Tool

Of course, you can unchangingly go straight to a specialized solution. Influencer marketing tools like Tagger and HypeTrace were built specifically to search and compare influencers on social media platforms. You can use these tools to filter influencers by channel, topic, location, number of followers, and more.

A quick Google search will requite you multiple options for tools for finding influencers on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and other platforms.

Hire an Agency

Like TikTok influencers, agencies are moreover valuable subject matter experts. Their expertise lies in helping brands like yours connect with the right content creators for your merchantry goals. In wing to facilitating new partnerships, an organ can help you manage partners, create and optimize campaigns, or plane run your unshortened affiliate marketing program. How much or how little they do is up to you.

If you’re finding the search process too difficult or time-consuming, reach out to an influencer marketing agency.

Influencers: The Key to TikTok Success

TikTok is unlike any other social media platform. Like its heavily Gen Z audience, it’s young, full of creativity and potential, and focused on living in the moment. In other words, brands can’t simply set up shop and expect to ventilate on the platform the same as on Twitter or Facebook.

The most successful marketing on TikTok is achieved when brands fit in, participate, and remain authentic. And partnering with content creators who know the platform and its people is an spanking-new way to get started.

For increasingly tips for finding influencers and other marketing partners, watch our on-demand webinar, “Taking Ownership of Publisher Growth.” You can moreover find an in-depth guide to the variegated types of unite partners in our Ultimate Guide to Partner Marketing, or read up on the latest news well-nigh sharing links in Instagram in this blog post.

Tell us in the comments: How do you currently work with influencers on TikTok, and how do you discover new ones?