Find the right creators:

TikTok Creator Marketplace Open Campaign

Duration

3 Months

My Role

Interaction Design

UI/UX Design

Design Research

 

Tools

Figma

 

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Key user

Brands / Business owners / Advertisers

TikTok creators

Goal: Find the right creators to create winning content that will assist in reaching their ad campaign and sales goals.

Goal: Looking for business opportunities to help brands promoting their products

What is TikTok team’s goal?

--- Successful parternship

  • Campaign success rate
  • Brand satisfaction rate
  • Creator engagement rate

Previous data

0

25%

50%

75%

100%

18%

33%

45%

Deal completion rate

Creator response rate

Advertiser satisfaction rate

TikTok creator marketplace

Before Brand - Campaign creation

My Activity

Creator Search

Discover

Shortlist

New Campaign

Help Center

Creators in this campaign

+ Add creators from shorlist

Tommy Porter

Esther Howard

Ben Hicks

Campaign Summary

Campaign name 1

Brand information

Brand name

Lululemon

Brand logo

Brand website

www.lululemon.com

Brand industry

Fitness

Product name

Yoga mat

Brand/product description

From hot to hatha, this natural rubber mat has a grippy top layer that helps you find balance.

description.pdf

Campaign details

Contact name

{First Last name}

Email

123abc@gmail.com

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

$200 USD

Gift product

Yoga mat

Campaign start date

Feb 10, 2021

Main goal

Increase product sales

Message to creators

We prefer creators that can post a video with

a cat or dog.

1.Create new campaign

  1. Add creators
  1. Fill in campaign information and send it to creators directly

Before Creator

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Revenue

My campaigns

View all

In process

$360.00

Total earnings

$760.00

Pending

29

Active

6

Completed

10

Inactive

3

Account details

Transaction center

Creator account info

Support

Creator academy

Feedback and support

Check my balance

Jacqueline

Edit profile

New

Creator monetization: Celebrate lunar new year in the North America. 3h

Home

Discover

Inbox

Me

From TikTok

Creator dashboard

Inbox: Receive campaign invitation

Key insights

“Tiktok Creator Marketplace is a great platform to search creators.”

Postive feedback

Sample questions:

  1. What is your main goal when visting the TikTok Creator Marketplace?
  2. What challenges do you face in the process of reaching out to the creators?
  3. How long did it usually take for a creator to respond to your invitation?
  4. Have you ever decided not to complete a deal? If so, what were the reasons?

Brands + Creators

Research

16

Key insights

  1. The only method for advertisers to contact TikTok creators is through direct messaging. Sometimes, advertisers may experience significant delays in receiving responses from creators.
  1. TikTok creators are unable to initiate contact with advertisers and must wait for advertisers to message them first. Additionally, creators can’t choose which brands they would like to work with.

Opportunities

Will / Marketing manager, 27

 

“Sometimes I don't even know if the creators are on the Marketplace. All I can do is wait for their reply. It would be great to have something that shows they have been on TCM....”

 

 

 

 

 

Sara / TikTok creator, 25

 

I didn’t have many options to choose which brands I wanted to collaborate with. I wish I could actively seeking the collaboration opportunities in the platform and choose the brand I am interested in...”

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring comparables

I conducted a competitive analysis to see how our competitors have addressed similar problems

  • Visibility setting to let creators discover the campaign
  • Linkedin - Publish job post

Brainstorming

We had a brainstorming workshop to align on the project goal, and to brainstorm on the ideal collaboration workflow by assigning each participant a different hat based on our client personas.

Goal: Improve the efficiency of brand-creator collaborations

  • Exploring new feature - “Open campaign”
  • How will the user flow look for creators applying open campaign?

New user flow

Existing user flow

New user flow

Existing user flow

Design ideation - Sketch

After discussions with the PM and engineering team, I tried to explore a new UX design that allows advertisers to switch between direct invite mode and open campaign mode. This new feature is integrated into our existing campaign creation page to reduce level of effort for engineering team.

Design ideation - Wireframe

Campaign type

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

High fidelity mocks

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Campaign type

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators

Preferred location

Select

Preferred language

Select

Minimum follower count

Select

Preferred qualifications

We’re looking for creators that run marathons.

0/300

Upload sample video link

http://

Application due date

Due date

Campaign short description

Are you a runner? We want fitness creators to post a 15-second video running on popular trails while wearing our brand’s shoes.

0/150

We recommend adding images of your brand or product to get more interest from creators.

Upload sample images

You can upload up to 3 images. Files must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB for each

Upload images

Please note that any requirements must not promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age, family status, or any other legally protected class.

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Contact Name

Enter contact name

Email

Enter email address

More

Share only if creators declare interest in your campaign

Campaign price

Set a price

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators (recommended)

Message to creators

Use Template

Send a message about this campaign directly to creators

0/800

Upload message

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign type

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

Design ideation - Creators mobile

Wireframe - Creators mobile

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Promotion carousel banner

Go to required actions

12

Direct invitations - Brands invitation

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Dashboard

Opportunities

Campaign name

Nike

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Campaign name

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

Campaign name

Alo

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Campaign name

Prefer creator location

Followers number

Professional

Age group

Main goal

Duration

Target audience group

Website: lululemon.com

Industry: Fitness

Product name: yoga mat

Brand description

Brand/company information

Details

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Seattle, WA

N/A

Yoga

20~35

Promote new yoga mat

1.1.2021 - 3.1.2021

young girls

Post date: 12-10-2020

Apply

Not interested

Open campaign list

Open campaign detail

High fidelity mocks - Creators mobile

9:41

Direct invitations

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America with Starbucks

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Marvel studios

Accept by Feb 28, 2021

Share your Kungfu story for movie Shangc...

Congrats! Marvel studios wants to work with you. We think you are talented and a great fit for the new movie campaign. Please share your story of Kungfu in a crea...

Offering £3,000 GBP

Details

Reference video link

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Dashboard

Opportunities

Direct invitations

These brands directly invited you to be in their campaign

View all

Campaign updates

View campaigns that require an action from you

View all

Open applications

Apply to campaigns that fit your interests

View all

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by Jan 23, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Starbucks

Offering funds & free products

Apply before Jan 23, 2021

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon

Gift products

Paid

Starbucks

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Apply before 1.23

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by 1.23.2021

Tell your love story in Valentine’s day with coke

Coca-cola

Coachella Dreamland Campaign

HP just sent you video script and content guide. Please upload video.

Update on Jan 23, 2021

Upload video

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon just sent you video script and content guide.

1d

Upload video

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

Usability testing

Key insights:

New goals:

  • Advertisers have to fill out excessive information all in one page.  
  • Help advertisers to create campaign more efficiently and less exhausting.
  • Advertisers have to manually filled in certain campaign information.

SIGN UP

T

Results

  • More advertisers and creators have successfully completed deals, especially smaller and lesser-known creators.
  • TikTok Creator’s engagement and behavior have improved.

Additional design proposal ...

  1. Create a preview feature for advertisers to preview

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Ad campaign preview

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

  1. Offer additional support for beginner-level brands

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

Brand description

shuaiedward123@gmail.com

Find the right creators:

TikTok Creator Marketplace Open Campaign

Duration

3 Months

My Role

Interaction Design

UI/UX Design

Design Research

 

Tools

Figma

 

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Key user

Brands / Business owners / Advertisers

TikTok creators

Goal: Find the right creators to create winning content that will assist in reaching their ad campaign and sales goals.

Goal: Looking for business opportunities to help brands promoting their products

What is TikTok team’s goal?

--- Successful parternship

  • Campaign success rate
  • Brand satisfaction rate
  • Creator engagement rate

Previous data

0

25%

50%

75%

100%

18%

33%

45%

Deal completion rate

Creator response rate

Advertiser satisfaction rate

TikTok creator marketplace

Before Brand - Campaign creation

My Activity

Creator Search

Discover

Shortlist

New Campaign

Help Center

Creators in this campaign

+ Add creators from shorlist

Tommy Porter

Esther Howard

Ben Hicks

Campaign Summary

Campaign name 1

Brand information

Brand name

Lululemon

Brand logo

Brand website

www.lululemon.com

Brand industry

Fitness

Product name

Yoga mat

Brand/product description

From hot to hatha, this natural rubber mat has a grippy top layer that helps you find balance.

description.pdf

Campaign details

Contact name

{First Last name}

Email

123abc@gmail.com

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

$200 USD

Gift product

Yoga mat

Campaign start date

Feb 10, 2021

Main goal

Increase product sales

Message to creators

We prefer creators that can post a video with

a cat or dog.

1.Create new campaign

  1. Add creators
  1. Fill in campaign information and send it to creators directly

Before Creator

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Revenue

My campaigns

View all

In process

$360.00

Total earnings

$760.00

Pending

29

Active

6

Completed

10

Inactive

3

Account details

Transaction center

Creator account info

Support

Creator academy

Feedback and support

Check my balance

Jacqueline

Edit profile

New

Creator monetization: Celebrate lunar new year in the North America. 3h

Home

Discover

Inbox

Me

From TikTok

Creator dashboard

Inbox: Receive campaign invitation

Key insights

“Tiktok Creator Marketplace is a great platform to search creators.”

Postive feedback

Sample questions:

  1. What is your main goal when visting the TikTok Creator Marketplace?
  2. What challenges do you face in the process of reaching out to the creators?
  3. How long did it usually take for a creator to respond to your invitation?
  4. Have you ever decided not to complete a deal? If so, what were the reasons?

Brands + Creators

Research

16

Key insights

  1. The only method for advertisers to contact TikTok creators is through direct messaging. Sometimes, advertisers may experience significant delays in receiving responses from creators.
  1. TikTok creators are unable to initiate contact with advertisers and must wait for advertisers to message them first. Additionally, creators can’t choose which brands they would like to work with.

Opportunities

Will / Marketing manager, 27

 

“Sometimes I don't even know if the creators are on the Marketplace. All I can do is wait for their reply. It would be great to have something that shows they have been on TCM....”

 

 

 

 

 

Sara / TikTok creator, 25

 

I didn’t have many options to choose which brands I wanted to collaborate with. I wish I could actively seeking the collaboration opportunities in the platform and choose the brand I am interested in...”

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring comparables

I conducted a competitive analysis to see how our competitors have addressed similar problems

  • Visibility setting to let creators discover the campaign
  • Linkedin - Publish job post

Brainstorming

We had a brainstorming workshop to align on the project goal, and to brainstorm on the ideal collaboration workflow by assigning each participant a different hat based on our client personas.

Goal: Improve the efficiency of brand-creator collaborations

  • Exploring new feature - “Open campaign”
  • How will the user flow look for creators applying open campaign?

New user flow

Existing user flow

New user flow

Existing user flow

Design ideation - Sketch

After discussions with the PM and engineering team, I tried to explore a new UX design that allows advertisers to switch between direct invite mode and open campaign mode. This new feature is integrated into our existing campaign creation page to reduce level of effort for engineering team.

Design ideation - Wireframe

Campaign type

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

High fidelity mocks

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Campaign type

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators

Preferred location

Select

Preferred language

Select

Minimum follower count

Select

Preferred qualifications

We’re looking for creators that run marathons.

0/300

Upload sample video link

http://

Application due date

Due date

Campaign short description

Are you a runner? We want fitness creators to post a 15-second video running on popular trails while wearing our brand’s shoes.

0/150

We recommend adding images of your brand or product to get more interest from creators.

Upload sample images

You can upload up to 3 images. Files must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB for each

Upload images

Please note that any requirements must not promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age, family status, or any other legally protected class.

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Contact Name

Enter contact name

Email

Enter email address

More

Share only if creators declare interest in your campaign

Campaign price

Set a price

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators (recommended)

Message to creators

Use Template

Send a message about this campaign directly to creators

0/800

Upload message

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign type

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

Design ideation - Creators mobile

Wireframe - Creators mobile

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Promotion carousel banner

Go to required actions

12

Direct invitations - Brands invitation

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Dashboard

Opportunities

Campaign name

Nike

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Campaign name

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

Campaign name

Alo

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Campaign name

Prefer creator location

Followers number

Professional

Age group

Main goal

Duration

Target audience group

Website: lululemon.com

Industry: Fitness

Product name: yoga mat

Brand description

Brand/company information

Details

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Seattle, WA

N/A

Yoga

20~35

Promote new yoga mat

1.1.2021 - 3.1.2021

young girls

Post date: 12-10-2020

Apply

Not interested

Open campaign list

Open campaign detail

High fidelity mocks - Creators mobile

9:41

Direct invitations

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America with Starbucks

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Marvel studios

Accept by Feb 28, 2021

Share your Kungfu story for movie Shangc...

Congrats! Marvel studios wants to work with you. We think you are talented and a great fit for the new movie campaign. Please share your story of Kungfu in a crea...

Offering £3,000 GBP

Details

Reference video link

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Dashboard

Opportunities

Direct invitations

These brands directly invited you to be in their campaign

View all

Campaign updates

View campaigns that require an action from you

View all

Open applications

Apply to campaigns that fit your interests

View all

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by Jan 23, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Starbucks

Offering funds & free products

Apply before Jan 23, 2021

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon

Gift products

Paid

Starbucks

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Apply before 1.23

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by 1.23.2021

Tell your love story in Valentine’s day with coke

Coca-cola

Coachella Dreamland Campaign

HP just sent you video script and content guide. Please upload video.

Update on Jan 23, 2021

Upload video

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon just sent you video script and content guide.

1d

Upload video

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

Usability testing

Key insights:

New goals:

  • Advertisers have to fill out excessive information all in one page.  
  • Help advertisers to create campaign more efficiently and less exhausting.
  • Advertisers have to manually filled in certain campaign information.

SIGN UP

T

Results

  • More advertisers and creators have successfully completed deals, especially smaller and lesser-known creators.
  • TikTok Creator’s engagement and behavior have improved.

Additional design proposal ...

  1. Create a preview feature for advertisers to preview

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Ad campaign preview

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

  1. Offer additional support for beginner-level brands

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

Brand description

shuaiedward123@gmail.com

Find the right creators:

TikTok Creator Marketplace Open Campaign

Duration

3 Months

My Role

Interaction Design

UI/UX Design

Design Research

 

Tools

Figma

 

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Key user

Brands / Business owners / Advertisers

TikTok creators

Goal: Find the right creators to create winning content that will assist in reaching their ad campaign and sales goals.

Goal: Looking for business opportunities to help brands promoting their products

What is TikTok team’s goal?

--- Successful parternship

  • Campaign success rate
  • Brand satisfaction rate
  • Creator engagement rate

Previous data

0

25%

50%

75%

100%

18%

33%

45%

Deal completion rate

Creator response rate

Advertiser satisfaction rate

TikTok creator marketplace

Before Brand - Campaign creation

My Activity

Creator Search

Discover

Shortlist

New Campaign

Help Center

Creators in this campaign

+ Add creators from shorlist

Tommy Porter

Esther Howard

Ben Hicks

Campaign Summary

Campaign name 1

Brand information

Brand name

Lululemon

Brand logo

Brand website

www.lululemon.com

Brand industry

Fitness

Product name

Yoga mat

Brand/product description

From hot to hatha, this natural rubber mat has a grippy top layer that helps you find balance.

description.pdf

Campaign details

Contact name

{First Last name}

Email

123abc@gmail.com

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

$200 USD

Gift product

Yoga mat

Campaign start date

Feb 10, 2021

Main goal

Increase product sales

Message to creators

We prefer creators that can post a video with

a cat or dog.

1.Create new campaign

  1. Add creators
  1. Fill in campaign information and send it to creators directly

Before Creator

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Revenue

My campaigns

View all

In process

$360.00

Total earnings

$760.00

Pending

29

Active

6

Completed

10

Inactive

3

Account details

Transaction center

Creator account info

Support

Creator academy

Feedback and support

Check my balance

Jacqueline

Edit profile

New

Creator monetization: Celebrate lunar new year in the North America. 3h

Home

Discover

Inbox

Me

From TikTok

Creator dashboard

Inbox: Receive campaign invitation

Sample questions:

  1. What is your main goal when visting the TikTok Creator Marketplace?
  2. What challenges do you face in the process of reaching out to the creators?
  3. How long did it usually take for a creator to respond to your invitation?
  4. Have you ever decided not to complete a deal? If so, what were the reasons?

Brands + Creators

Research

16

Key insights

“Tiktok Creator Marketplace is a great platform to search creators.”

Postive feedback

Key insights

  1. The only method for advertisers to contact TikTok creators is through direct messaging. Sometimes, advertisers may experience significant delays in receiving responses from creators.
  1. TikTok creators are unable to initiate contact with advertisers and must wait for advertisers to message them first. Additionally, creators can’t choose which brands they would like to work with.

Opportunities

Will / Marketing manager, 27

 

“Sometimes I don't even know if the creators are on the Marketplace. All I can do is wait for their reply. It would be great to have something that shows they have been on TCM....”

 

 

 

 

 

Sara / TikTok creator, 25

 

I didn’t have many options to choose which brands I wanted to collaborate with. I wish I could actively seeking the collaboration opportunities in the platform and choose the brand I am interested in...”

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring comparables

I conducted a competitive analysis to see how our competitors have addressed similar problems

  • Visibility setting to let creators discover the campaign
  • Linkedin - Publish job post

Brainstorming

We had a brainstorming workshop to align on the project goal, and to brainstorm on the ideal collaboration workflow by assigning each participant a different hat based on our client personas.

Goal: Improve the efficiency of brand-creator collaborations

  • Exploring new feature - “Open campaign”
  • How will the user flow look for creators applying open campaign?

New user flow

Existing user flow

New user flow

Existing user flow

Design ideation - Sketch

After discussions with the PM and engineering team, I tried to explore a new UX design that allows advertisers to switch between direct invite mode and open campaign mode. This new feature is integrated into our existing campaign creation page to reduce level of effort for engineering team.

Design ideation - Wireframe

Campaign type

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

High fidelity mocks

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Campaign type

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Campaign price

Negotiate a price with creators and gift free products

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators

Preferred location

Select

Preferred language

Select

Minimum follower count

Select

Preferred qualifications

We’re looking for creators that run marathons.

0/300

Upload sample video link

http://

Application due date

Due date

Campaign short description

Are you a runner? We want fitness creators to post a 15-second video running on popular trails while wearing our brand’s shoes.

0/150

We recommend adding images of your brand or product to get more interest from creators.

Upload sample images

You can upload up to 3 images. Files must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB for each

Upload images

Please note that any requirements must not promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age, family status, or any other legally protected class.

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

My Activity

Creator Search

Shortlist

New Campaign

English

Help Center

Contact Name

Enter contact name

Email

Enter email address

More

Share only if creators declare interest in your campaign

Campaign price

Set a price

Gift free products

Negotiate a price with creators (recommended)

Message to creators

Use Template

Send a message about this campaign directly to creators

0/800

Upload message

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Create campaign

All of the following information will be shown to creators once you create the campaign.

Campaign name

Campaign name

Enter campaign name

0/60

Brand Information

Brand name

Enter brand name

Brand logo

Logos must be JPG or PNG and less than 5 MB

Brand website

Enter your brand website

Brand industry

Select your industry

Product name

Enter product name

0/60

Detailed brand/product description

Explain your brand and product to the creator(s). What does your brand do, what products do you offer, and who’s your main audience?

0/500

Upload description file

Files must be Word, Excel, PPT or PDF and less than 5 MB

Campaign type

Direct invitation - Send invitations directly to creators

Open application - Post what you’re looking for and have creators come to you

Campaign details

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Campaign start date

Start Date

Save to draft

Cancel

Publish

Design ideation - Creators mobile

Wireframe - Creators mobile

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Promotion carousel banner

Go to required actions

12

Direct invitations - Brands invitation

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Explanation is here. Explanation is here.

View all

Dashboard

Opportunities

Campaign name

Nike

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Open Campaign - Browse to apply

Campaign name

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

Campaign name

Alo

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Post date: 12-10-2020

9:41

Campaign name

Prefer creator location

Followers number

Professional

Age group

Main goal

Duration

Target audience group

Website: lululemon.com

Industry: Fitness

Product name: yoga mat

Brand description

Brand/company information

Details

Lululemon

Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description here. Short description.

Seattle, WA

N/A

Yoga

20~35

Promote new yoga mat

1.1.2021 - 3.1.2021

young girls

Post date: 12-10-2020

Apply

Not interested

Open campaign list

Open campaign detail

High fidelity mocks - Creators mobile

9:41

Direct invitations

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Starbucks

Accept by Jan 15, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in North America with Starbucks

After viewing your previous videos about lifestyle, we think you are a great fit for our lunar new year yearcampaign in 2021. Based on campaign requireme

Offering $5,000 USD

Details

Marvel studios

Accept by Feb 28, 2021

Share your Kungfu story for movie Shangc...

Congrats! Marvel studios wants to work with you. We think you are talented and a great fit for the new movie campaign. Please share your story of Kungfu in a crea...

Offering £3,000 GBP

Details

Reference video link

9:41

TikTok Creator Marketplace

Dashboard

Opportunities

Direct invitations

These brands directly invited you to be in their campaign

View all

Campaign updates

View campaigns that require an action from you

View all

Open applications

Apply to campaigns that fit your interests

View all

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by Jan 23, 2021

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Starbucks

Offering funds & free products

Apply before Jan 23, 2021

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon

Gift products

Paid

Starbucks

Celebrate lunar new year in the North America

Apply before 1.23

$ 5,000

offered

Accept by 1.23.2021

Tell your love story in Valentine’s day with coke

Coca-cola

Coachella Dreamland Campaign

HP just sent you video script and content guide. Please upload video.

Update on Jan 23, 2021

Upload video

Winter yoga mat sale

Lululemon just sent you video script and content guide.

1d

Upload video

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Target audience group

Gender and age

Campaign duration

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Product name

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

hover to see explaination here

Campaign short description

Upload reference images or videos/link

+

Location Preference

Language Preference

Minimum Follower Count

Additional requirement

Nice to have 1 dog or 1 cat

Campaign price

a number/a range/free products (radio button)

Campaign active duration?

Maximum timeline and adjustable (extend or shorten)

Usability testing

Key insights:

New goals:

  • Advertisers have to fill out excessive information all in one page.  
  • Help advertisers to create campaign more efficiently and less exhausting.
  • Advertisers have to manually filled in certain campaign information.

SIGN UP

T

Results

  • More advertisers and creators have successfully completed deals, especially smaller and lesser-known creators.
  • TikTok Creator’s engagement and behavior have improved.

Additional design proposal ...

  1. Create a preview feature for advertisers to preview

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Ad campaign preview

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

  1. Offer additional support for beginner-level brands

New camaign

Campaign name

Brand information

Campaign details

Campaign type

Campaign name

Brand name

What is your main goal for this campaign?

Direct Invitation - Recruit creators for this campaign

Open Campaign - Allow creators to apply to the campaign

Brand website

Brand industry

Brand/product description

Campaign start date

Product name

Upload brand description

Save draft

cancel

Create

Contact name

Email

Phone number

Campaign price range

Option: a range, a number, negotiable or free product

Message to creators

1

Invitation & Cooperation

2

Produce & Check

3

Post Video

4

Complete

Brand description