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november 25, 2025

The Creator Advantage

Creators partnerships 🤝 CTR

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Creators Lift TikTok Campaigns

TikTok’s new data suggests creator-led ads outperform traditional brand ads across every meaningful metric.

At the same CPM, creator content drives a 70% higher CTR and a 159% higher engagement rate.

Why? Because creators are native to TikTok’s rhythms in a way brands rarely are. They understand the jokes, the jump cuts, the micro-communities, and the unwritten rules that make content feel native rather than forced. And that creator fluency shows up in performance.

Here are the three core advantages creators offer campaigns:

  1. Cultural translation: Creators interpret a brand through TikTok’s lens, whether that’s #CleanBeauty, eco-lifestyle, or niche aesthetic cores, unlocking angles internal teams might overlook.
  2. High-velocity production: They concept and produce quickly, giving brands more high-quality iterations without creative fatigue.
  3. The halo effect: Audiences trust messages from voices they already follow. When ads run on creator accounts, engagement and view-through rates climb.

Check out the insight at TikTok for Business.

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