TikTok positions search as performance driver amid AI reshaping of discovery landscape
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Krystal Scanlon
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TikTok is positioning itself as a discovery-driven search platform, arguing that rising search activity on the app demonstrates how discovery is increasingly driving performance outcomes for advertisers. As large language models (LLMs) reshape the search landscape, TikTok's global head of business marketing, Isobel Sita-Lumsden, contends that the platform's short-form video format offers a unique value proposition for brands seeking both discovery and measurable performance results.
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· 3 pulledWhere Google returned links, TikTok served short-form videos showing people how to cook, where to eat and what the ingredients actually looked like.
Then large language models (LLMs) arrived and rewrote the dynamics of search entirely.
The platform argues rising search activity is evidence that discovery is increasingly driving performance outcomes advertisers expect.
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