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TikTok sells Seedance tokens to advertisers beyond North America
Brands outside North America can buy BytePlus tokens to make 30-second Seedance 2.5 video ads inside Symphony, and a new Symphony API brings the tools into their own software.
TikTok is selling more of ByteDance’s video model to advertisers. From Monday 9 November 2026, advertisers anywhere except North America can pay for Dreamina Seedance video in Symphony, TikTok’s AI ad studio, with tokens from BytePlus, Social Media Today reports. TikTok says the tokens bring quicker generation and more formats. BytePlus sells ByteDance’s AI tools to companies, and ByteDance also owns TikTok. A refreshed Symphony API (a connection other software can call) lets advertisers use Symphony’s generators inside the creative tools they already run.
TikTok’s own post, from 3 August, names the model in Symphony as Seedance 2.5 and says advertisers can give it up to 50 references, up from 9, mixing audio, video and images, and attach directions to exact timestamps. Clips can run to 30 seconds, double the old 15. In August, TikTok said it was rolling out to selected paid advertisers in selected markets, inside Symphony Automations in TikTok Ads Manager and in Symphony Creative Studio. TikTok says Symphony attaches C2PA Content Credentials, a tag other platforms can read to spot AI content, adds an AI label and a hidden watermark, and blocks uploads of real faces.
On our TikTok ads tools page, Symphony labels every exported video as AI, citing TikTok’s help page updated in June 2026. Our Seedance record, checked on 7 November, notes that Dreamina’s US terms bar commercial and advertising use on every plan.
For a brand outside North America, the tokens open Seedance inside an ad tool that labels its output as AI and attaches C2PA credentials; our Seedance record shows the consumer route in the US, Dreamina, barring ad use on every plan.
Sources
- Social Media Today: TikTok updates its AI video ad tools. Checked
- TikTok: Transforming Video Creation With TikTok Symphony And Dreamina Seedance 2.5. Checked
Alexandre S.
Alexandre S. is a creative ad strategist and copywriter with ten years' experience in digital marketing across multiple channels.
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