Welcome to the PLAY LAB.

The lab where global seeding is designed around your brand. Brands come here to experiment, validate, and grow — and this is where we publish everything we learn along the way: playbook, case files, and lab notes.

Who publishes this Playbook

This Playbook is written by PLAYLAB — a global TikTok seeding agency that runs creator sourcing, outreach, product shipping, upload verification and reporting in-house. If you are evaluating seeding agencies, you are welcome to compare us as one of the candidates.

Creator dataset 1.5M+ Per brand, monthly 1,000+ collabs Gifted seeding recovery 60–70% Coverage Worldwide ex. China Billing Per live content

The Method

Brands experiment, validate, and grow in the lab

Global seeding is not a lottery — it is a controlled experiment. We design campaigns as hypotheses, run them against a proprietary dataset of 1,500,000+ global TikTok creators with worldwide coverage excluding China and Hong Kong, including 240+ countries and regions and 60+ markets with 1,000+ creators. The LAB is the public record of that method.

Step 01

Experiment

Every campaign starts as a designed experiment: which markets, which creator tiers, which content angles — chosen by data, not intuition.

Step 02

Validate

Results are measured, not assumed: automated upload tracking, multi-window performance metrics, and honest reporting of what worked and what didn't.

Step 03

Grow

Validated learnings compound into a repeatable growth playbook — the same method that took a K-beauty brand to +1400% Amazon sales growth in 3 months.

Inside the LAB

Where the record lives

Practical guides for the decisions brand teams actually have to make.

Why the LAB exists

We publish what agencies usually keep vague

When a brand team searches for a seeding partner, the questions are always the same: What does it cost? How do I compare agencies? What do real results look like? Most of the industry answers with adjectives. We answer with the method and the numbers — because we run seeding as software on a 1,500,000+ creator dataset, and documented experiments are how we work anyway. If the LAB helps you run better seeding without us, good. If it convinces you to run it with us, better.

Now that you have read it

Compare PLAYLAB as one of your candidates

Everything the guides tell you to ask an agency, we publish about ourselves first. Ask other agencies the same questions and you have a like-for-like comparison.

Published operating conditions

Last updated 2026-09-17

Operating scale
We run 1,000+ creator collaborations per month for a single brand.
Seeding coverage
Worldwide except China and Hong Kong, Japan included. Core markets: North America, Southeast Asia, Korea and Japan.
Proprietary creator dataset
1.5M+ global TikTok creators we collect and maintain ourselves. The dataset covers the same geography as our campaigns, with creators in 240+ countries and territories. Our deepest markets are 14, including the US, UK and Japan.
Scope we own
Creator sourcing · outreach · product shipping · upload verification · performance reporting — end to end, one team.
Track record
100+ campaigns, 10,000+ creators who completed, 15,000+ uploaded contents, 30+ brands.
Gifted seeding recovery
We publish 60–70%. It cannot structurally reach 100%, and a guarantee above 90% may signal that creator tier was lowered.
Billing unit
We bill per live uploaded content — not per creator contacted, not per product shipped.
Creator-side cost
None. No participation fee, shipping fee, sample fee or deposit is ever requested.

These are our published operating figures, not a guarantee of a confirmed upload count for a given country, product or deadline. Tell us your target markets, product and timeline and we will scope a plan against those conditions.

Design your next experiment with us

Bring your brand into the lab — we'll walk you through the dataset, the method, and what a seeding campaign designed around your brand looks like.