Ads are coming to TikTok search results

That wasn't a thing already? I am genuinely surprised

Shocking

Isn't TikTok a huge ad itself?

TikTok revanced

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The company announced today that advertisers will be able to place ads alongside organic content that appears when searching in the app.

When a user clicks on an ad, they can continue scrolling to view search results in a feed-like format.

Ads will appear next to organic content that’s served when a user searches on TikTok, with a semitransparent “sponsored” label on the video thumbnail.

Instagram search ads appear when a user clicks on a post and begins to scroll through other content.

Young people are increasingly using TikTok as a Google replacement to look for product recommendations, restaurants, or shows to watch.

In the past, TikTok has also struggled with moderating content that appeared prominently in search results — last year, the platform pulled several videos that promoted the use of prescription drugs as weight loss ads after researchers found TikTok was surfacing them in search.

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Wow that's sucks! Will it affect me ? Probably not because I dont use tiktok.

Oh no! Anyway...

Good thing I don't use Chinese state spying software on my devices then.