I've made sporadic use of TikTok since I discovered it a couple of years ago.
Last year, when the Socks thought they were going to break big on Britain's Got Talent, we made a few special videos, which got no traction. Then over the Edinburgh period I made special live edits of the show. To date the most viewed Socks TikTok is the Iceland gag from Eurovision, which has a freakish 28,000 views. Then there's a drop to 2404 views for my version of Dean's song Ariel with Little Mermaid lyrics (from 2018 originally, uploaded in 2022), and most of the rest get less than 400 views.
My videos posted as myself have been similarly varied. For a long time my first Eurovision Colouring Book Tiktok was my most viewed, with 13,600 views. Then, back in November, my to-camera rant about The Power Of The Doctor rocketed to an unrivalled 93,400 views.
Most of my Colouring Book videos have been flip-through of the pages, which #BookTok enthusiasts on the group 20BooksTo50K insist gets them the best responses for selling their books. Well not me. With the exception of that first Eurovision flip-through, they get around 300 views and no more.
I returned with a to-camera piece a couple of weeks back, to plug the new editions of my graphic novels, which I'm describing as "All killer no filler" (they have the comic strip, but no Shakespeare play at the back. If you're interested they're Findlay Macbeth, Prince Of Denmark St, and Midsummer Night's Dream Team). This video saw an uptick in my viewings, currently standing at 2531.
Since then I've rattled off quick to-camera pieces for the toys I was flogging on eBay, which started getting a few hundred. Not much, but more than the book-flips. Then I did some unboxings, when some new colouring books were delivered, and look how those viewings shot up (chart below).
Whether this turns into book sales, we shall see. Meanwhile, if I keep doing these on some kind of regular basis, maybe the algorithms will warm to me and start working in my favour. Time will tell.
Recent Tik Tok videos (from most recent down):
Unboxing Royalty Colouring - 4389
My Books and where to get them:
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
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