Video
Published format-level guidance.
Required
Not specified by platform
Recommended
Not specified by platform
Placement-dependent
Not specified by platform
Cphere best practice
Not specified by platform
In-Feed (Auction)
Limited DocumentationStandard Ads Manager auction buying. Safe-zone dimensions vary by aspect ratio, caption length, and add-ons; use TikTok's downloadable safe-zone templates rather than fixed pixel values.
Required
- File Types
- MP4 · MOV · MPEG · 3GP · AVI
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Maximum File Size
- 500 MB
- Minimum Bitrate
- 516 kbps
- Caption Rules
- Rendered in uniform white font; not customizable; no clickable links, @ mentions, or hashtags; maximum 4 display lines; Spark Ads captions come from the organic post
- Account Name
- Maximum 20 characters (10 for Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
- Profile Photo
- 98x98 pixels, 1:1, JPG/JPEG/PNG under 50 KB; key element centered in the 66x66 pixel safe area
- Ads Per Ad Group
- 50 — Ad names support 512 characters (internal only).
Recommended
- Aspect Ratio
- 9:16 at 540x960 or larger (recommended); 16:9 at 960x540 or larger; 1:1 at 640x640 or larger
- Cta Options
- 22 standard CTAs plus Dynamic CTA (10-option pool) and AI-generated CTA derived from the landing page
Placement-dependent
- Description Limit
- Verification required — The current auction in-feed page publishes no numeric ad-text limit (the 1–100 Latin / 1–50 Asian limit is documented only for Global App Bundle image ads); confirm in TikTok Ads Manager.
- Video Codec
- Verification required — No codec is stated on current official pages; confirm before delivery.
Cphere best practice
Not specified by platform
