As a part of its ongoing efforts to enhance its in-app procuring expertise, TikTok has joined the Worldwide Trademark Affiliation’s (INTA) “Unreal” marketing campaign, which goals to boost consciousness about counterfeits, and deter individuals from being duped by pretend listings.
The Unreal marketing campaign, which has already been operating for over a decade, goals to educate younger customers concerning the significance of mental property, emblems and types, and the hazards of buying counterfeit merchandise. The initiative is offered to all INTA members, throughout 181 international locations, offering capability for particular person classes and instruments to assist elevate consciousness of associated issues.
And now, TikTok can even be trying to assist amplify this system’s messging.
As defined by TikTok:
“In Could 2025, TikTok and INTA launched a year-long marketing campaign to empower younger buyers with the data they should make conscious buying choices and perceive the intense dangers linked to counterfeit items. By way of a sequence of partaking TikTok movies and articles launched all year long, the marketing campaign will make clear the vast ranging dangers of counterfeit merchandise.”
TikTok says that that is a part of its broader effort to take a stand to guard mental property rights, and be sure that TikTok customers aren’t being manipulated within the app, which might result in a nasty procuring expertise.
TikTok has been pushing its in-stream procuring choices as exhausting as it could possibly, with a spread of promotions of live-stream procuring occasions, specifically, because it seeks to duplicate the success it noticed with the identical in China.
The Chinese language model of TikTok, referred to as Douyin, now generates the vast majority of its income from in-stream procuring, and it’s seen astronomical progress in reside procuring, which TikTok has sought to additionally enhance in its app.
However Western audiences so far haven’t been as , which has put a dampener on TikTok’s earnings potential. However it’s nonetheless attempting, and it’s seemingly nonetheless assured that it could possibly make TikTok procuring a major component, and convey extra alternatives for the platform and companies alike.
Defending IP is one other piece of this puzzle, enabling TikTok to place extra emphasis on shopping for from permitted sellers, versus undercutting them by showcasing fakes.
Which is difficult to police, however ideally, this new partnership will broaden TikTok’s capability by serving to buyers perceive what to search for in product listings.
For its half, TikTok says that it eliminated greater than 450k merchandise for mental property violations between July and December 2024, and the job of implementing its guidelines on this entrance is increasing with its broader procuring push. So TikTok can be working to actively implement the identical, however ideally, extra customers elevating extra consciousness can even help.
You may be taught extra about TikTok’s partnership with INTA right here.
