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TikTok ads targeting options explained

informationalMarketing & AdvertisingAnalyzed 07/01/2025

AI Search Visibility Analysis

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Query Report Analysis Visualization
High Impact

Total Mentions

Total number of times a brand appears

across all AI platforms for this query

Reach

Platform Presence

Number of AI platforms where the brand

was mentioned for this query

Authority

Linkbacks

Number of times brand website was

linked in AI responses

Reputation

Sentiment

Overall emotional tone when brand is

mentioned (Positive/Neutral/Negative)

Brand Performance Across AI Platforms

3
Platforms Covered
9
Brands Found
0
Total Mentions
BRANDTOTAL MENTIONSPLATFORM PRESENCELINKBACKSSENTIMENTSCORE
1TikTok
0
4
95
2Adsmurai
0
2
67
3Eye Universal
0
2
67
4Leadsbridge
0
2
67
5WordStream
0
1
55
6Hyros
0
1
55
7Demand Curve
0
1
55
8Nestscale
0
1
55
9Strike Social
0
1
55
Referenced Domains Analysis
All 13 domains referenced across AI platforms for this query
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Google AIO
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
5
6
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
2
Google AIO:
1
3
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
1
2
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
1
2
ChatGPT:
1
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
1
1
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
1
1
ChatGPT:
0
Perplexity:
1
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
1
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
1
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
0
1
ChatGPT:
1
Perplexity:
0
Google AIO:
0
1

Strategic Insights & Recommendations

Dominant Brand

TikTok dominates the discussion as the primary advertising platform with comprehensive targeting capabilities across all AI responses.

Platform Gap

ChatGPT provides the most structured overview, Google AIO focuses on practical tips, while Perplexity offers the most technical detail with logic explanations.

Link Opportunity

All platforms reference TikTok's official help documentation and third-party marketing resources, creating opportunities for targeting strategy guides and tutorials.

Key Takeaways for This Query

TikTok offers seven main targeting categories: demographics, interests, behaviors, custom audiences, lookalike audiences, device targeting, and smart targeting.

Smart targeting allows TikTok's algorithm to automatically optimize audience reach beyond initial selections for better performance.

Custom audiences can be created from website visitors, app users, customer files, and previous ad engagement data.

Best practices include starting with broad targeting, then refining based on performance data and utilizing A/B testing for optimization.

AI Search Engine Responses

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ChatGPT

3603 Characters

BRAND (4)

TikTok
Hyros
Demand Curve
Adsmurai

SUMMARY

TikTok Ads Manager provides comprehensive targeting options including demographic targeting (age, gender, language, location), interest targeting based on long-term content interactions, behavioral targeting for recent activities, custom audiences from customer data, lookalike audiences, device targeting, and smart targeting features that automatically optimize audience reach for better performance.

Perplexity

4865 Characters

BRAND (6)

TikTok
Adsmurai
Eye Universal
Leadsbridge
Nestscale
Strike Social

SUMMARY

TikTok ads targeting includes demographic options (gender, age, location, language, spending power), interest and behavioral targeting based on content engagement, device and technology targeting, custom and lookalike audiences, and smart targeting with automated optimization. The platform uses OR logic within dimensions and AND logic across dimensions, offering both broad and manual targeting approaches for different campaign objectives.

Google AIO

2112 Characters

BRAND (4)

TikTok
WordStream
Eye Universal
Leadsbridge

SUMMARY

TikTok offers multiple ad targeting options including demographic targeting (age, gender, location, language), interest and behavior targeting based on user interactions, custom audiences from website visits and customer data, lookalike audiences, device targeting, and smart targeting optimization. Best practices include starting broad, using custom audiences, and A/B testing different targeting approaches.

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