Starting November 9, advertisers outside North America can buy BytePlus tokens to generate AI videos with Dreamina Seedance in TikTok's ad tool Symphony. TikTok is also expanding the Symphony API, the interface for custom tools. TikTok does not state a price for the tokens.
Dreamina Seedance is the name of the video model family from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company. Symphony is the AI toolkit in TikTok Ads Manager, that is, where you create ads. Only accounts that run ads are affected. Nothing changes for posts without an ad budget.
What can Symphony do with Seedance?
The Symphony Agent creates a video from just a few inputs. It is based on successful ads, TikTok trends, and the brand's goals. With Seedance 2.5, it generates up to 30 seconds of video per prompt instead of the previous 15. As a template, it takes up to 50 reference files (images, videos, audio) instead of the previous 9.
Symphony mit Seedance in Zahlen
Angaben von TikTok zu den KI-Videowerkzeugen im Ads Manager
- 30 sVideolänge pro Prompt, bisher 15 Sekunden
- 50Referenzdateien aus Bild, Video und Audio, bisher 9
- 9. NovStart des Tokenkaufs außerhalb Nordamerikas
Preise für die Tokens und ein Start in Deutschland stehen nicht auf der Seite
Quellen: TikTok for Business Blog
These upper limits appear in TikTok's Symphony post. The post on Seedance 2.5 from August 3, 2026 states the same values. At that time, access was only available to selected paying advertisers in selected markets. In addition, sequence, pacing, and scene transitions can be specified down to the second.
The expanded Symphony API connects custom tools with the Seedance models, the Symphony Agent, the Trends Library (a collection of current trends), and with functions for editing and extending videos. The offering is aimed at advertisers, agencies, and partners with their own systems.
How does access work, and does it apply in Germany?
You log in to Symphony, connect your BytePlus account, and buy the tokens directly there. Existing Symphony credits remain usable. If you have both balances, you choose which one Symphony uses. The page does not state a price for the tokens.
As the territory, TikTok names all countries in which Ads Manager and BytePlus are available, with the exception of the USA. Germany is not explicitly listed. Whether BytePlus is available in Germany is left open by the page, so check this in your own account.
How does TikTok label the videos?
TikTok provides Symphony videos with AI labels for the audience and with an invisible watermark. In addition, there are C2PA Content Credentials, a standard for provenance verification that other platforms use to recognize AI content. TikTok blocks uploads of real faces. TikTok checks prompts, reference files, and results multiple times, including the expanded image, video, and audio references.
What this means for you
Open Ads Manager and look for the Seedance models in Symphony Creative Studio. If the models are missing there, your account or your market may not yet be enabled.
Before buying BytePlus tokens, clarify the price and billing, since TikTok states neither. Start with a small test: one video created with reference files from your own material, including the AI label that TikTok applies.
If you work for clients, agree on the labeling and the watermark beforehand. Faces of real people cannot be uploaded as a reference, so appearances by real people in ads will continue to be shot in front of the camera.
TikTok names November 9, 2026 as the start date for the purchase of BytePlus tokens.
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