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About the Sales advertising objective

Last updated: March 2025

Sales is an advertising campaign objective to drive sales on your TikTok Shop, website, or app.


Note: The Website Conversions and Product Sales advertiser objectives merged into one single Sales objective. The newly integrated Sales objective is not available to all advertisers and is rolling out in a phased approach.

Available sales destinations for the Sales objective

TikTok Shop: Drive sales on your TikTok shop with Shop Ads campaign settings chosen by you.


Note: You do not need to create a catalog or Pixel to use the Sales objective for TikTok Shop. TikTok Shop is available for advertisers registered in Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam.


You can create the following ads with the TikTok Shop destination:

  • Video Shopping Ads: Add shopping options to your TikTok videos and advertise your products.

  • LIVE Shopping Ads: Add shopping options to your LIVE videos and advertise your livestreams.

  • Product Shopping Ads: Create ads for your products using images and information from your Product Details Page.

Website: Drive sales on your website with campaign settings chosen by you.

  • Manual campaign: Create a campaign manually by choosing each ad setting. You can turn on Use catalog to create ads for products in your Catalog. If you don't have a Catalog, you can create a new one when you set up your manual campaign.

  • Smart+ campaign: Manage campaigns automatically for ad placements, audience targeting and more to improve ad performance and optimization.

  • Search campaign: Create campaigns with keywords and serve ads within TikTok's search result page.

App: Drive sales on your app (product catalog required).


Available ad formats for the Sales objective

  • Video Shopping Ads: Add shopping options to your TikTok videos and advertise your products.

  • LIVE Shopping Ads: Add shopping options to your LIVE videos and advertise your livestreams.

  • Product Shopping Ads: Create ads for your products using images and information from your Product Details Page.


Available optimization goals for the TikTok Shop Sales objective

When you create ads using the Sales objective, and select TikTok Shop as the Sales destination, you can choose an Optimization Goal to tailor your bidding and budget strategy.

  • For lower funnel optimization: Gross revenue, Purchase

  • For mid-funnel optimization: Initiate Checkout, Product Click in Live

  • For upper funnel optimization: Viewer Retention, Clicks

Product Click in Live and Viewer Retention are supported by LIVE Shopping Ads. You can also use Shop Activity audiences in your Product Sales campaigns to re-engage your existing and interested customers, gain new customers, and increase your return on ad investment.


Available metrics for the Sales objective

Video Shopping Ads with Shop or Showcase

LIVE Shopping Ads

Placement

TikTok, including Shop Tab placements.

TikTok, including Shop Tab placements.

Format

In-feed video

TikTok posts

Upload Video

In-feed LIVE

In-feed Video landing to LIVE

TikTok posts

Upload Video

Measurement event

TikTok Shop or Showcase

TikTok Shop or Showcase

Promotion type

Video

LIVE

Optimization goal

Click

Initiate Checkout

Purchase

Gross revenue

Click

Viewer retention

Product click in LIVE

Initiate checkout

Purchase

Gross revenue

Targeting

Manual targeting (prospecting or retargeting):

Location, Gender, Age, Languages, Interests & Behaviors


Automatic targeting

Manual targeting (prospecting or retargeting): Location, Gender, Age, Languages, Interests & Behaviors


Automatic targeting

Billing events

CPC on Click

CPM on Initiate checkout, Purchase and Gross revenue

CPC on Click

CPM on Viewer retention, Product click in LIVE, Initiate Checkout, Purchase and Gross revenue

Bidding method

Maximum delivery

Cost cap (standard or accelerated delivery)

Highest Gross revenue

Minimum ROAS

Maximum Delivery

Cost cap (standard or accelerated delivery)

Highest Gross revenue

Minimum ROAS

Reporting metrics

Product page views (Shop)

Adds to cart (Shop)

Purchases (Shop)

ROAS (Shop)

Gross revenue (Shop)

Video metrics

Video views

6-Sec video views

Average watch time

Cost

Reach

Impressions

Clicks

CTR

Audience insights: Age & Gender, Location, Interest & Behavior, Device, Custom Audience

Product page views (Shop)

Adds to cart (Shop)

Checkouts initiated (Shop)

Purchases (Shop)

ROAS (Shop)

Gross revenue (Shop)

LIVE views

LIVE unique views

Effective LIVE views

LIVE product clicks

Video views

6-Sec video views

Average watch time

Cost

Reach

Impressions

Clicks

CTR

Audience insights: Age & Gender, Location, Interest & Behavior, Device, Custom Audience