About Deep Funnel Optimization

Last updated: September 2025

Deep Funnel Optimization (DFO) for lead generation campaigns helps you optimize both your upper funnel events and deeper funnel events.

Benefits

  • Deep Funnel Optimization can help you increase the portion of qualified leads your ads generate while acquiring optimal cost-per-qualified-lead performance.

  • With Deep Funnel Optimization, you can select a secondary event alongside the primary optimization event, which can help improve campaign effectiveness.

Use cases

Deep Funnel Optimization is a good fit for advertisers who want to increase their lead quality by optimizing deeper-funnel conversion signals, while maintaining upper-funnel conversions.

Available settings

Objective

Lead generation

Campaign setup

- Manual campaign (+ Catalog)


- Smart+ campaign (+ Catalog)

Campaign Budget Optimization

CBO is supported when using Deep Funnel Optimization.

OS

Android and iOS

Goal

- Conversion for website form


- Form Submission for Instant Form

Optimization events (1st event)

- Website form: choose from 13 standard lead events (see details in the table below)

- Instant form: Form Submission is pre-selected by default

Deep funnel data connections

- Web

- CRM

- Offline

Deep funnel events (2nd event)

All standard events can be optimized for DFO in lead generation campaigns (learn more in the table below)

Placement

TikTok

Markets

All markets with auction ads


Supported standard events for lead ads and DFO campaigns

Below are the predefined standard events that TikTok currently supports:

  • The first 13 standard events listed are lead generation events and can be optimized as the first conversion event in DFO if leads convert through a web form.

  • The "Lead" (also labeled as "Form submission" on the campaign creation interface) is pre-selected by default if leads convert through an Instant Form.

  • The bottom 5 standard events are not lead generation events but can be optimized as the deeper-funnel events in lead generation campaigns through DFO.

Standard Events

Can be optimized in 1st event

Can be optimized in 2nd event

Lead

Yes

Yes

ViewContent

Yes

Yes

Contact

Yes

Yes

CompleteRegistration

Yes

Yes

Search

Yes

Yes

AddToWishlist

Yes

Yes

Subscribe

Yes

Yes

FindLocation

Yes

Yes

Schedule

Yes

Yes

CustomizeProduct

Yes

Yes

StartTrial

Yes

Yes

SubmitApplication

Yes

Yes

ApplicationApproval

Yes

Yes

AddPaymentInfo

No

Yes

AddToCart

No

Yes

Download

No

Yes

InitiateCheckout

No

Yes

Purchase

No

Yes