Toutiao (Literal meaning: Headlines) or Jinri Toutiao (Literal meaning: Today’s Headlines) is the leading integrated information platform in China today. It allows hundreds of millions of Chinese netizens to understand what is happening in the world, and also allows advertisers to be known by more consumers. It is a superb content platform that recommends information to users through artificial intelligence technology. From information to knowledge, the value of Toutiao continues to increase. In addition to following top news through Toutiao, users can also gain knowledge through it.

Toutiao brings together many domestic high-quality PUGC content, which is highly favorable by users, including CCTV, Xinhua, People’s Daily, etc. to deliver high-quality content here; and Xiaomi’s founder: Lei Jun, famous political commentator: Chiu Yi, well-known publisher: Hong Huang, etc. also read and share interesting news here.

The daily active users of Toutiao has doubled from 2018 to 2019. The average search frequency per user has increased by 27%, and the search volume in Toutiao has increased by 2.5 times (data period: May 2018 – April 2019), this is definitely a new traffic spot apart from the traditional search traffic. As an integrated information terminal, Toutiao carries search behaviors such as news, images, videos, hot topics, Q & A, encyclopedias, etc., and this allows advertisers to reach the target audience directly based on the search behavior.

With the increase of search volume, Toutiao is constantly optimizing the search path and would like to create a “browse and search at the same time” environment. First of all they strengthen the search function – there is a search icon on every content page, making it easier for users to search any time. Next, they simplify the search function – the search bar on top of the page is always refreshed with the hot topic, and the hot topics in Toutiao will be displayed below, as well as the historical search records, estimated searches and recommended topics. Lastly, connecting search and native by displaying the news feeds and recommendations that are related to users’ searches through artificial intelligence.

Previously, the stages of search marketing took place on different platforms, which separated the marketing flow. Today, on Toutiao, news feed and search are on the same platform, which improves user experience and facilitate conversion.

SEM of Toutiao is divided into 3 parts – Keywords, Creative and Landing Pages. It’s a full path user search experience – search keywords, click to view the content and download or fill up form for lead generation.

Toutiao has variety of creatives, e.g., video on the left, title on the right, image on the left with title on the right, title on top with image on the left and summary on the right, and commodity display. The second and seventh positions will be the search ads for every refresh, which take care of user experience while displaying the ads. Toutiao’s AI is constantly calculating the correlation between the keyword and creative to make sure they have passed the ad correlation test. AI also examines if the creative carries the message from the keyword in order to maintain the consistency of information. It’s recommended that to include keyword on the creative to improve the consistency. The minimum consistency level is at least 60%.

Toutiao SEM supports two important objectives in mobile bidding, which are enquiry form and app download. In order to improve the performance, the landing page experience plays an important role. The enquiry form ad can improve the performance by optimizing the path, while the app download ad can improve the performance by optimizing user experience through scene simulation. The keys for campaign optimization are maintaining user experience, soft landing and consistency.

SEM of Toutiao is divided into 3 stages, which are the initial stage, getting stable stage and effective stage.

We, at OctoPlus have rich experience and a good record in SEM. Our team can customize effective strategies – from creatives to keywords to landing pages, and continuously optimize to ensure that your ads can reach your target audience on Toutiao and spread your content.

If you want to know more about Toutiao SEM, get in touch with us today.

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Our founders have more than 10 years of experience in SEO, SEM and data analytics. Under their leadership, we have redefined the way that social media and influencer campaigns can be run to generate results for our clients.

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