How to find a TikToker's email address

On YouTube, creators who take sponsorships usually put a business address in the channel description. A TikTok profile has less room, and two of TikTok's own rules decide what else it can show:

• Contact details need a business account. TikTok says an account must be a Verified Business Account to show a business address, email or phone number on its public profile. TikTok recommends its General account for content creators, so many creators have no contact details on the profile at all.
• A profile link needs 1,000 followers. A General account can add a website link once it has at least 1,000 followers. Below that, the bio text is often the only place a creator can leave an address.
• Links to other apps are web links. TikTok no longer supports profile links that open other social media apps, but creators can still link to those platforms' websites, such as their YouTube channel or Instagram profile.

So the address is usually in the bio text, or one tap away behind the single link the creator chose.

The bio

Look for a line starting with "biz", "collabs", "PR" or a mail emoji. Space is tight, so creators abbreviate and often break the address up to avoid spam bots, as in "name at domain dot com". Rebuild it carefully.

The bio link

Usually a link-in-bio page (Linktree, Beacons, Stan and similar), a personal website or a shop. Link pages often have an email button or a link labelled work with me, brand enquiries or collaborations. Websites have contact, about or press pages.

A media kit

Creators who take brand deals often link a media kit from their link page. It usually names the partnerships address, and sometimes a manager.

A linked YouTube channel or Instagram account

Creators who post on several platforms often publish the address on only one. A YouTube channel description or an Instagram Contact button may carry it. See finding a YouTuber's email and finding an Instagram creator's email.

Business profile contact details

On a Verified Business Account, an email, phone number or address can appear on the profile itself. It's an address the account holder chose to show for business, so it's a good one to use.

Captions of pinned videos

Pinned videos sit first on the profile, and creators sometimes repeat the contact line in their captions.

A manager or agency

If the bio or link page says "management", "represented by" or names an agency, deals go through a talent manager. Write to the address they give, put the creator's handle in the subject line and mention a specific video, because a manager may look after many accounts.

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   Read the whole bio

   Open the profile and read every line, including the emoji. Look for spelled-out addresses and the words business, collabs, PR or management.

2. 02

   Check for contact details on the profile

   If the account is a Verified Business Account and the owner chose to show business information, an email may be on the profile itself.

3. 03

   Open the bio link

   On a link-in-bio page, look for an email icon, a contact button, or a link to a media kit or a work with me page.

4. 04

   Check the website's contact pages

   If the link goes to a website, check the pages named contact, about, work with me, collaborations, press or media kit. A contact form reaches the same inbox when no address is printed.

5. 05

   Follow their other platforms

   Open the YouTube channel or Instagram profile they link to and compare any address there with what you've found.

6. 06

   Read the pinned videos' captions

   A contact line in a pinned caption is one the creator wants new visitors to see.

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   Note where you found it, and when

   Write the source and date next to the address. If you write weeks later, check it again first.

• It's labelled for business. "Business", "collabs" or "brand deals" next to an address is the creator telling you where offers go. An unlabelled address in an old caption is weaker.
• It appears in more than one place. The same address in the bio, on the link page and on a YouTube channel is almost certainly current. If two places disagree, prefer the one the creator edits most, usually the bio or the link page.
• The domain fits the creator. An address on the creator's own domain, or one that matches their name, is a deliberate choice. A management company's domain is fine when the creator names that company.
• It doesn't use an old handle. Creators rename their accounts. An address built on a handle they no longer use may be abandoned.
• It belongs to the creator. An address from a school, an employer or a relative's website wasn't offered for brand deals, even if it mentions the creator.
• It isn't a placeholder. Link-page templates and website themes sometimes ship with sample addresses, and some forms show a no-reply address. Skip both.

• Don't guess. Email-permutation and "finder" tools try name patterns against a domain. For creators that means a bounce or a personal inbox they never offered for business, and bounces hurt your sending reputation.
• Don't buy lists. Nobody on a bought list agreed to hear from you about your offer. More in should you buy a creator email list.
• Don't message from fake or borrowed accounts. Creators check who is writing, and a pitch from an empty profile reads as spam. Use your brand's real account.
• Don't paste one message to everyone. Write each message for one creator and mention one of their videos.

• Use the contact form on their website or link page, if there is one.
• Send one short direct message from your brand's account: who you are, one line about a video you liked, and a question about where to send a proposal. Our outreach emails and DMs for Instagram and TikTok have wording you can adapt.
• Write to the manager if one is named anywhere, even when the creator gives no address of their own.
• Move on if they've chosen not to be reachable. Other creators will fit too.

Nakodo runs this search for the TikTok creators it finds. It reads the public profile while logged out: the bio, including spellings such as "name [at] domain", the bio link and the captions of recent videos. Private accounts are skipped. If none of those has an email, it follows up to 3 linked pages, link-in-bio pages first and then websites, and on a website checks up to 2 pages that look like contact, about, work with me or collaborations. It respects robots.txt on those sites.

It keeps an address only if it's on the creator's own domain, a personal mail provider or a domain that looks like the creator's name, and skips no-reply and placeholder addresses. It never guesses an address and never logs in as anyone. The address isn't shown to you: Nakodo emails the creator on your behalf and, when they say yes, introduces you in the same thread with you in copy. The full method is on how Nakodo works.