The best time to go LIVE on TikTok for your audience.

The short answer

Quick answer: There is no single best time to go LIVE on TikTok. The best time for you is when your audience is free and not already watching a creator they love. Look at when the creators your gifters also support go LIVE, pick slots that fit around them, then test each slot for two weeks and compare your diamonds.

Why generic best times miss

Lists of the best hours to post or stream average millions of accounts across time zones and niches. Your audience is a much smaller group with its own routine. A slot that is busy for everyone can also be crowded: if your supporters’ favorite creators are LIVE at the same time, you are competing for the same viewers.

Schedule around your audience’s other favorite creators

Start from the people who already gift you. Shared-supporter data shows which other tracked creators your gifters also support. Note when those creators usually go LIVE:

• Avoid head-to-head slots where several of them stream at once, unless you plan to battle one of them.
• Try the gaps just before or after their streams, when your shared audience is already on TikTok LIVE.
• Use battles deliberately. Going LIVE when an overlapping creator streams can work well if you battle them and bring both audiences into one room.

Read more in what your gifters’ other creators tell you.

Let watchlists and alerts do the watching

Rather than checking manually, add the creators your audience follows to a TikLiveRank watchlist and turn on live alerts. Over a couple of weeks you will see when they actually go LIVE, which is more reliable than guessing from their posts.

For your own supporters, set gifter alerts with Seen in another room. When TikLiveRank observes one of your top gifters gifting in another LIVE, you get an alert on iPhone, Telegram or in the app. It means they are active on TikTok LIVE right now, which makes it one of the best signals to go LIVE. Use it only to time your stream, never to message or pressure the gifter.

Run a two-week test

1. Pick two candidate slots that fit around your audience’s other creators.
2. Stream in the first slot for two weeks, keeping your format the same.
3. Switch to the second slot for two weeks.
4. Compare your day-by-day diamonds and league finishes between the two periods, then keep the better slot.

Change one thing at a time. If you change your slot and your format together, you will not know which one made the difference.

Mind the ranking resets

TikTok’s Daily ranking resets on a fixed schedule, which in some regions is every hour. If you care about finishing high on a Daily board, stream when a period starts rather than in its last minutes. How the Daily ranking works.

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