Canada Best Practices

It’s TikTok time for Canadian dealerships

TIKTOK SCREEN GRAB
HGregoire commissioned TikTok content creator Alexis du Maïs, pictured, to produce a humorous car-buying video to reach an atypical — younger — audience. (TIKTOK SCREEN GRAB)
June 21, 2022 03:48 PM

In a 47-second video, a man wearing a blond wig walks into a Quebec dealership looking for the perfect vehicle. In this unsubtle put-on, “she” rejects several options before finding a Jeep Wrangler with a rearview mirror her to admire herself. Sold! Welcome to the off-the-wall world of TikTok, a popular platform for sharing short-form videos and one that a growing number of dealerships are using as a social media marketing tool.

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