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Can't select TikTok-only placement in Website Sales campaign — 90% of traffic is from Pangle (pangleglobal) with zero conversions

Hi everyone,

I'm running a Website Sales campaign (Smart+ / new unified workflow) targeting Serbia, $20/day, optimized for Purchase. Since yesterday:

  • 19,787 impressions, 525 clicks, 2.65% CTR (suspiciously high)
  • CPC around $0.04
  • 1 add to cart, 0 checkouts, 0 purchases

In Shopify analytics, sessions by referrer show:

  • pangleglobal: 570 sessions
  • tiktok: 52 sessions

So ~90% of my budget is going to TikTok Ad Network (Pangle), and the traffic looks like bots or accidental clicks.

The problem: I want to run ads on TikTok only, but in the Placements section I don't have the "Select placement" option. It only shows "Eligible placements: TikTok, including search results, TikTok Ad Network, Global App Bundle" with no way to uncheck anything. I already tried clicking "Switch to custom targeting" in the Audience targeting section, but nothing changed.

The block list option only accepts specific bundle IDs, and I don't know which apps my ads were shown on.

Questions:

  1. Has anyone found a way to get "Select placement" to show up in the new unified campaign flow? Is it region-specific?
  2. Is there any workaround to exclude Pangle / Global App Bundle completely?
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u/Kyoto312 — 7 days ago
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Bot Traffic From TikTok ($0.39 CPM & $0.05 CPC)

Does anyone actually get good results from TikTok ads in 2026? I’ve asked friends of mine in different industries and they had similar issues and don’t even bother with the platform. We used to run them for my other business 3 years ago and was spending 2-5k a day and having amazing results. We came back here to try and scale a newer business and have had awful results and a bad experience with support. We just receive bots that sit on our website for a few seconds. We will get thousands of these visitors and not a single ATC or click on the website. Our landing page and creatives are fine and work well on other advertising platforms.

I’ll attach a screenshot as well, this is just one campaign we’ve had others do the same thing and can’t find a fix. 0.05 CPC and a 0.39 CPM is insane and clearly not real traffic, the creatives are good but not that good.

I’ve disabled Advantage + and any AI creative options, although it sometimes will force the AI options back on for my ads. I use mostly broad campaigns, targeting only Female, US and 18-34, I put no interests or anything else. I have it only set to TikTok and no other networks, even though it feels like I’m on all the bad networks.

I tried contacting support about the issue, and actually had my account coincidentally suspended the day after saying something lol. I’m considering opening a new account, but they did suspend me and won’t refund my remaining balance which is absurd. If anyone has found a fix for the low quality / bot traffic I’d be grateful to hear it, and will consider creating a new account to run ads. Thank you!

u/Useful-Anybody-9932 — 9 days ago
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Tik Tok Advertising

Currently I’m running TOFU campaigns on TikTok for a manufacturing company. I’m trying to run MOFU and BOFU campaigns in upcoming months. Do anyone have a hand on experience in bottom of the funnel?

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u/Ayeshmadushanka — 9 days ago