Hi guys, I was wondering what the best option for monetization was. I have a TikTok account with roughly 22k followers, every day I gain 1k ish followers, so I was wondering if it was smart to wait until I hit 50k or more until I ask for sponsorships, reason being that I could ask for more in the deal. I do art content btw.
I'd start conversations now rather than wait for 50k, but I wouldn't assume a bigger follower count automatically means a higher rate. Put together a simple media kit with your art niche, audience details you can verify, recent video examples and typical views, then approach a few art-adjacent brands whose products genuinely fit. Keep the deliverables and fee clear, and treat early replies as feedback on the pitch. A good audience match can be more persuasive than a round follower milestone.
brands mostly pay for engagement and audience fit, and follower count matters less than people think. at 22k with that growth you can already pitch small brands in art supplies or apps. a rate card built from your last few videos' real views sells better than waiting for 50k. start with a low first deal and raise the rate after two or three
Start now. 22K and climbing 1K a day is the kind of momentum brands want to catch early, and your first couple of deals are how you learn to price anyway. Go after art supply brands and small shops whose stuff you already use, and pitch one video with a clear deliverable. Price it off your average views per video, not your follower count, and raise your rate after every deal you land. Put together a one-page media kit: average views, audience age and countries, and links to your two best videos.
id start reaching out. your engagement and audience growth matter just as much as follower count, and you can always negotiate better rates as your account grows
start now, but pitch differently. small accounts win when the brand can see the content working, so send 2 or 3 posts with real view counts and offer the video for them to run as an ad. brands care less about size than you'd think
Start now, but start with the brands people are already asking you about. You said viewers keep asking which pens and paper you use, so those are the most natural first pitches. A brand will care more about that fit than about waiting for 50k.
For the underpaying worry, set a floor before you pitch and price from your average views, not your best video. Offer one video and a slightly better priced bundle, with extra revisions or extra posts charged separately, so you are not giving the work away to get the first deal.
On outreach, a short TikTok DM is fine to open the conversation, especially if the brand is active there, but move to email as soon as they reply so the fee, deliverables, and timeline are in writing.
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start now, don't wait for 50k. brands care more about engagement and niche fit than raw follower count, a 22k art account with real comments beats a dead 100k page. i'm at 45k and still get lowball offers, the follower number alone never decides the rate. make a simple media kit with your avg views and audience stats, and watch out for free product + exposure deals, take one maybe, never twice
Have any art brands already come up in the questions people ask about your materials?
Hey all, I own a business that involves many clients that promote their product, art or website with TikTok (also Instagram, Youtube and Facebook). I want to offer them a way to post their content, or to get content created and posted for them on existing TikTok pages. Basically you got pages in a specific theme (sport, anime, cinema, culture, memes...) and you rent it for a specific period of time. You get paid every month, and all you have to do is basically connecting the account once to our system. You can opt-out anytime you want, you keep the full ownership of the account. That's basically a way to monetize your pages passively. For now I'm doing it myself with my own pages (3 tiktok pages with 500 to 3k followers, and 1 6k subscribers Youtube channel), I made around $800 renting these for less than a month. If someone is interested, please comment or DM!
I've been absolutely obsessed with short form content for the last two years. Like people have staged actual interventions about my health level of obsessed. I'm talking 11-14 hour days breaking down what separates successful videos from failures, experimenting with different hook variations, rewriting scripts until my brain hurts, testing every editing approach I could possibly get my hands on. Why this level of obsession? Because I'm absolutely certain short form video is the backbone of everything right now. Growing followers, selling anything, generating opportunities, creating brands from nothing. Every part of it depends on whether you can hold someone's attention for 30 seconds. But here's what nearly made me quit entirely: despite the constant daily grind, nothing was hitting. I'd pour 7-8 hours into crafting one video only to watch it crash at 300 views. Tried every tactic from every person claiming to have figured it out. Bought their courses. Applied their "proven" methods. Still going nowhere. I seriously started thinking maybe I'm just not the type of person who can make this work. Like maybe there's some fundamental ability I'm completely lacking. Then something clicked. I'm grinding constantly, but I'm operating completely blind. I don't actually know what's broken. I'm essentially just trying random things hoping something eventually works. So I stopped hunting for some mythical viral code and started analyzing actual data. Analyzed my last 50 videos second by second, documented every retention drop, and discovered 5 consistent patterns that were systematically killing my performance: 1. **Vague mysterious hooks are totally invisible** "This will transform you..." gets scrolled past every time. But "I used resistance bands for 55 days and my shoulder mobility actually decreased" stops people mid scroll. Specific concrete details destroy vague teasing without exception. 2. **Seconds 5-7 are where everything gets decided** Most viewers leave between 4-7 seconds if you haven't proven it's worth watching. I was creating slow buildups like a complete amateur. Now my strongest visual or most compelling number arrives exactly at second 5. That's where the hook that genuinely holds people. 3. **Any gap beyond 1 second absolutely kills your retention** Tracked this obsessively, anything past 1.2 seconds makes people think the video stopped. What feels like natural comfortable pacing to you reads as complete dead time to someone scrolling. Cut significantly tighter than feels normal. 4. **Visual variety is absolutely critical** If nothing changes on screen for more than 3 seconds, attention vanishes without warning. I started constantly rotating camera angles, cutting to b-roll, moving text placement, literally anything to maintain constant visual movement. Went from losing 50% at the halfway mark to keeping 70%. 5. **Rewatch rate is dramatically more important than most people realize** Videos people watch more than once get pushed exponentially harder by the algorithm. Started planting subtle details that aren't obvious first viewing, editing faster, adding elements worth discovering on rewatch. Rewatch percentage jumped from 8% to 31% and reach went completely through the roof. Honestly the biggest shift was abandoning all guesswork and actually measuring what was happening at every second. Came across this one app that goes way beyond showing where people drop off, it literally tells you why and exactly how to correct it. That's when everything transformed. Went from averaging 300 views to hitting 18k in about 4 weeks. Regular analytics show you people are leaving. This one shows the exact second, the actual reason, and what to adjust before your next post. If you're uploading consistently but stuck below 1k views, your content isn't the problem. You just don't know what's genuinely working versus what you assume is working. Listen, I'm sharing this because breaking through was honestly one of the hardest things I've tackled. I really wish someone had just explained exactly what needed fixing when I was stuck there. Would have saved months of confusion and doubt. So that's what I'm doing now for anyone who needs it.
I run a business and often make post on social media and make important announcements/ updates and how to contact me and people will still comment questions that’s obviously answered in the captions. I feel like a broken record and am honestly dumbfounded by how lazy people are when it comes to inquires. I’m just fed up at this point lol
Hola. Tengo un grupo de Telegram en el que vendo un producto y estoy tratando de aumentar la captación a miles de usuarios entrando por día. El problema es que como estoy empezando no quiero invertir por ahora en promoción o publicidad hasta que entren ingresos. He probado contenido orgánico en redes sociales y publicar los links en webs de publicación de links. Pero no muestran resultados que merezcan la pena y además TikTok es muy restrictivo y restringe videos. El mayor problema con el que me encuentro es que Telegram tiene un sistema antispam muy restrictivo así que añadirlos manualmente tampoco es una opción. Por favor, si usted ya ha encontrado una solución efectiva para este problema le agradecería mucho que me ayudara. Gracias.
Hey! I’ve been getting these strange ghost messages that have been rattling me a bit. So there’s this guy I have blocked for being a bit of a creep, I have ONLY EVER messaged him on Instagram, no TikTok no text messages. And recently I’ve had him blocked on both my personal Instagram and cosplay Instagram. (I have two TikTok’s and two instagrams cause I usually have one personal and one cosplay TikTok). And so I’m asleep one day and then I wake up to a notification (let’s call him TikTokuser) “Tiktokuser reacted ❤️ to your message” and immediately I’m lost, I had no idea he had a TikTok and instantly blocked him on my cosplay TikTok. Next day I wake up to the same notification? He’s been blocked, I’ve never messaged him on TikTok, and so I also blocked him on my personal TikTok just Incase that has anything to do with it. Next day? 2 of the same notification, and today I got the same notification again and then along side one of my ex’s old coworker for some reason? What’s strange is that it’s choosing people I know and people who are connected to my ex but for one I don’t know how these people can be reacting to messages that never existed? Not to mention how they’re getting through if they’re blocked. If anyone can give me theories or help it’d be much appreciated I’ve blocked them, turned off contact and Facebook sync, cleared my cache I don’t know what more to do.
what do i do cuz he loves another woman, i made a fake account to test him and now im helping him to get that other woman he’s in love with, i wish i could tell him who i am and i want to expose him so badly and confront him but i just cant :(( i dont know what to do. whenever he talks to me i feel so good but whenever he goes my day just ruins automatically. i dont know when its gonna get better im so tired of this