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Adding Creator Handles and Profile Links to Videos

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Introduction

Learn how to add content creator handles and to video projects. This is helpful for merchants who want to highlight the content creators making their videos or for those who have partnership deals.

Important:

Applicable to Swipeable widgets, Videos Stories, Default carousel or Homepage Spotlight, For you video feed (TV Page), Tapcart ’For You’ Feed, and Tapcart PDP stories. This is not applicable to Founder Video (Branching widgets), Collection page tile, Product tile, Product gallery videos, Collection grid product videos, Hero, and Embed.

Adding Content Creator Handles to Videos

  1. Access the video library in Tolstoy.

  2. Select a video where you want to add the content creator's details.

  3. Click on the three dots, then click on “Edit creator handle.”

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  4. Paste the link to the creator's handle from TikTok or Instagram.

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  5. Confirm the changes to save the video with the creator's handle attached.

    Please note, any videos imported from a TikTok URL will automatically have the creator handle. This can be removed in the “Edit creator handle” field.

Enabling Content Creator Handles in Projects

  1. Go to the project where you want to display the content creator handle.

  2. The handle can be displayed on the video project.

To Add to Default Carousel and Tapcart PDP stories Project

There are two ways:

First, go to Design → Widget → Scroll down to Behaviour → toggle on Display creator handle.

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You can select if you want it added to the bottom or top of the video. You can also toggle on "Open link to creator's profile" if needed.

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Save the changes to have the creator's details shown in the project.

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Second, go to Design → Video Feed → Toggle ON Display creator handle and Open link to creator's profile (if needed).

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To Add to Homepage Spotlight Project

Only the first option applies. Go to Design → Widget → Scroll down to Behaviour → toggle on Display Creator Handle.

To Add to Swipeable widget, Video Stories, For you video feed (TV Page), and Tapcart ’For You’ Feed

Only the second option applies. Go to Design → Video Feed → Toggle ON Display creator handle and Open link to creator's profile (if needed).

Finalizing the Setup

  • Any videos without added creator handles will not display any handle.

  • Please note, the handles will be clickable on the Spotlight layout to direct users to their profile in a new tab. It is not clickable in the default carousel project or within the video feed.

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