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Best practices for budget

Last updated: February 2025

Your ad budget can make up a large portion of your marketing spending. Use these tips to help you consider the best budget and strategy when you set up a campaign on TikTok Ads Manager.

Tips to select your ad budget

The following tips will help you set your budget:

  • For your campaign budget, leave it open initially.

  • Use the daily budget instead of lifetime budget for your ad group budget.

We recommend the following minimum budget depending on the optimization:

Type of Event

Optimization

Minimum Budget

No "Current CPA"

Not Conversions

Any other high funnel event

50 x current CPA/CPR

100 USD (or equivalent)

Conversions

Shallow Conversion Campaign (Page View, etc...)

50 x current CPA/CPR

100 USD (or equivalent)

Conversions

Install Campaign

20 x current CPA

200 USD (or equivalent)

Conversions

Deep Conversion Campaign (Add to Cart, Purchase, etc..)

10 x current CPA

200 USD (or equivalent)


Tips to optimize your budget

  • When you are running a conversion campaign and select conversion as your optimization goal, don't make any targeting, bid, or budget changes before it passes the learning phase. Learn more about the learning phase.

  • Keep your budget within the 50% range of your previous budget after passing the learning phase.

  • Wait at least 2 days to make targeting, bid, or budget changes to allow the campaign time to adjust.

  • If you set up or change a Maximum Delivery bid strategy in the middle of the day, there might be a spending discount based on the actual remaining effective hours of delivery.


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