So I’ve always been weary of TikTok as it looks so childish and still not sure if i really like it. But decided to give it a try whilst its still relatively new.
My account niche is Aggressive Inline Skating - very narrow niche but also hopefully exciting enough to get views.
Reason: I am hopefully going to be working with a big rollerskating brand and thought it’d be good to be one step ahead with a large following in that niche.
Im still new to the platform so any ideas/tips/tricks you can give me I’m open to!
I will be doing everything organically and just reposting instagram videos.
Im going to stop counting views, unless there’s a way to see your total? as im posting a lot and will become tiresome
Strategy - I decided to switch to finding youtube videos of skaters, downloading them and cutting them into short clips of one or two tricks - much better.
2 of my videos caught traction, one with 10k views and one with 7k and rising.
This looks like a really good way to produce something! Thanks for sharing.
How are you downloading the YT videos? Without a huge team - and given the current lock down and my niche - this sort of creation/alteration might be the best way for me to get started on TikTok.
EDIT: DM sent in case you wanted to follow through with this:
UPDATE:
I posted another video, similar style to the one that went viral and its gained 12k views in 3 hours, and i looked once when it was at 3k views and literally 20 minutes later it was at 12k. crazy.
So theres definitely a trend, big exciting tricks were the content for both videos that got alot of views.
STATS: DAY 5
Creation Date: 6/4/2020 (UK DATE)
Niche: Inline Skating
Posts: 27 (+3)
Following: 13 - f/uf is too slow
Followers: 404
Likes: 4233
As you can see, yesterday was a pretty good day, I posted another ‘Send it’ video (big tricks) and after 3 hours it had 2k views which sounded promising. I checked again literally less than 20 minutes later and it had 20k views. Crazy.
What ive noticed is that all my 3 videos that have gained traction all got to a certain point of views (22k/46k/40k) and stopped dead in their tracks, not even an extra few K views of the stragglers. Weird.
TikTok is weird and crazy
EDIT:
I just wanted to say that i really dont enjoy using this app, it feels cheesy and not very community based, maybe I should give it more time. But i cant see me doing much more with this other than an experiment that doesnt use up alot of my time
it seems that you have caught some attention… so why give up? you just need to focus more on those 3 videos and the views that you got and try to upgrade a bit and see how it goes, it has been only 5 days since the start, I did like the way the account is growing especially this one “. I checked again literally less than 20 minutes later and it had 20k views. Crazy.”
STATS: DAY 6
Creation Date: 6/4/2020 (UK DATE)
Niche: Inline Skating
Posts: 29 (+2)
Following: 13 - f/uf is too slow
Followers: 599
Likes: 6381
So yesterday i didn’t spend any time on the app apart from uploading 2 videos. My video with 20k views suddenly shot up to 40k and then stopped.
and my big video that was sitting on 60k views for a day or two suddenly shot up to 100k!!
Ive seen that the algorithm shows it to different tiers of audience and im sure that’s right too, its like the videos got stuck at a gate of a few days before being let loose again to get more views!
As well as this all my other videos are starting to get views days after due to all the followers im getting. pretty dope!
but again, the more i use the app the less i feel connected.
Maybe those 20 k and 40 k videos got more engagement in the last hours that is why the algorithm showed them to other users, but I think the more Tiktok love you the more you hate it
I’m in the same boat with you. 1 video of mine shot up at 50k. Stopped there, and now I think it will be revived in the next few days.
Also my recent posts don’t get the same traction. Quality Content as always but I don’t know why it doesn’t work.
I’m currently trying to expand to other niches to double down on the strategy and hope that I will do something worthwhile. Maybe start a youtube, becoming a guru or maybe selling stuff. I dont know, I focus solely on growth now. Without monetizing.
