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TikTok gives you one link, and only at 1,000 followers.
The profile field is the only clickable link TikTok documents. Captions are not one.
Checked August 2026
Every claim links to its source. These rules change without warning.
How TikTok pays creators
The Creator Fund is retired. The Creator Rewards Program replaced it, and its bar is higher than most people expect.3
- 18 or over, and 19 in South Korea
- 10,000 followers
- 100,000 video views in the last 30 days
- A Personal Account. Business Accounts are not eligible
- Good standing, in one of eight countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico and Brazil
The one that catches people: a video only qualifies if it is at least one minute long, and it needs a thousand qualified For You views. That is duration, not watch time. TikTok's Creator Academy says "over 1 minute" and the support article says "at least one minute", so build for a minute and a bit. Payouts start at $10.3
TikTok publishes no per-view rate. Not a range, not an average. It has published no shutdown date for the old Creator Fund either.
Ten thousand followers and a hundred thousand views a month is a real business already. The profile link unlocks at 1,000 followers, or straight away with a Verified Business Account.
Where a link can actually go
TikTok documents one clickable link surface: the profile. That is the whole list.
| Placement | Verdict | So do this |
|---|---|---|
| Profile website link | Conditional | Live "if you have at least 1,000 followers, or if you have a Verified Business Account". Either one on its own, not both: that is the most mangled fact about TikTok on the internet. This is where your tracked link goes. TikTok no longer supports links that open other social apps, though links to those platforms' websites still work. 1 |
| Video captions | Not documented | TikTok documents no clickable link in a caption, anywhere. Stop pasting URLs into captions. Say "link in bio" and spend the characters on something that earns the tap. 1 |
| Comments | Not documented | Undocumented, same as captions. Pin a comment that points at your profile, not one that carries a URL. 1 |
| LIVE | Not documented | Undocumented. Say the profile link out loud and put it on screen as text if you want it remembered. 1 |
| In-video anchors | Not clickable | These exist, and they are not for you. Every piece of TikTok's documentation for anchors sits on ads.tiktok.com and is scoped to brand campaigns, TikTok Shop and advertisers. There is no organic in-video clickable element for a creator. The profile link is the only route. 2 |
TikTok's support pages render only in a real browser, so these were read in one. Pages under tiktok.com/discover were excluded: they are user-generated, and they are where most of the folklore about TikTok's link rules comes from.
With one placement, label by series instead.
There is nothing to separate by placement here. Give the profile link a fresh label each time you start a new series and swap it in, and the report becomes a by-campaign breakdown instead.
The code on the end is what identifies the series, and on TikTok it is the only thing that can: the TikTok in-app browser sends no referrer at all. How the tracking works.
What the report then tells you
Every email address and every payment is counted against the placement it arrived from.
By placement on TikTok
Example| Placement | Visits | Emails | Payments | Earned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok bio, March series | 1,204 | 86 | 22 | $312 |
| TikTok bio, February series | 910 | 31 | 6 | $74 |
Same profile link, same audience, two months. One series was worth four times the other and the follower count barely moved.
TikTok will not give you their email addresses.
200,000 followers on TikTok. Zero email addresses. There is no export that produces them, and the profile link is the one route out.
Which is a lot of weight for one gated field. Point it at a page that carries up to ten links of its own, with a sign-up form and a payment block above them, so a visitor can join your list or pay you instead of only tapping through. We take 0%.
Addresses come from the form on your page and from the opt-in link on a payment receipt, and export as a CSV. How the capture and the consent record work. The free plan collects without limit and shows you the first five.
* Stripe's card fee still applies.
Sources
- TikTok: adding a link to your profile. www.tiktok.com
- TikTok for Business: about TikTok One anchors. ads.tiktok.com
- TikTok: Creator Rewards Program. support.tiktok.com
- TikTok: Creator Fund update. support.tiktok.com