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TikTok Ads sets rules about what kinds of ads are allowed on its platform, banning things like deceptive, false, or harmful content and placing special restrictions on sensitive categories such as financial services, healthcare, and ads directed at minors. Advertisers must meet these requirements before and after their ads are approved — TikTok Ads can pull an ad even if it was already approved. If you advertise on TikTok, your content must comply with all applicable category-specific policies or it may be rejected.
This document establishes TikTok Ads' industry-specific advertising policies, setting out substantive content restrictions, category-specific rules, and enforcement powers that govern ads placed on the platform. TikTok Ads prohibits advertising involving dangerous products or services, deceptive practices, misleading or false content, and discrimination, harassment, or bullying. Category-specific restrictions apply to adult content, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and housing, employment, and credit advertising, with additional targeting restrictions applicable to users under 18. TikTok Ads retains the authority to reject ads even after prior approval has been granted, meaning no approval is final.
For individual users, this document means that ads appearing on TikTok are subject to platform-wide prohibitions on deceptive, false, misleading, discriminatory, harassing, and dangerous content, as well as specific restrictions on sensitive ad categories including financial services and healthcare. Users under 18 are covered by dedicated advertising targeting restrictions. The practical effect is that advertisers are required to screen their creative content and targeting against these standards before and during a campaign.
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