How to evaluate a TikTok LIVE host before you sign them

Why a single LIVE is not enough

TikTok LIVE income is uneven. One good night with a generous viewer can put a creator high on the Daily board, and the next week they may not appear at all. An agency that signs on the strength of one evening is betting on that evening repeating. The signals below all look at a window — 30 days, or several sessions — so that one spike does not decide for you.

None of them replaces a conversation with the creator or a check in your LIVE Backstage. They tell you where to look and what to ask; TikTok decides whether a creator can join your network.

1. Diamonds over 30 days

Start with the 30-day total. In the Recruit tool, Diamonds 30d is an estimate over the last 30 board days of the creator's region, today so far included; it takes TikTok's own board number for each day (Daily or League) or the gifts Toktik saw in the rooms it polls, whichever is larger. The same 30 days appear in the creator profile that opens from Watchlists, the Roster, Gifters and Recruit.

Read the total together with how it is made. The panel says how many of the 30 days have TikTok's own number (Days with a TikTok number) and marks the rest as Only gifts we saw, Off the boards or Before our data. A total built mostly from TikTok's sealed numbers is close to the real figure; a total built from gifts Toktik happened to see is a lower bound and usually low.

2. How steady the diamonds are from day to day

Open the creator's last 30 days and look at the bars, not only the sum. Two creators with the same 30-day total can be very different hosts:

• Steady: a number on most days, without one bar dwarfing the rest. This is a host with a routine and a returning audience.
• Spiky: most of the month's diamonds on one or two days. Ask what happened on those days — a battle, an event, one gifter — and whether it repeats.
• Fading: strong bars early in the window and short ones at the end. The 30-day total still looks good, but the trend does not.
• Sparse: many days Off the boards. The creator may simply LIVE less, or earn below the board cut-off on those days; either way, the total rests on fewer days than it seems.

3. How often they go LIVE

Toktik does not show a full LIVE calendar for a creator you have not signed. What it does show is close enough to start with. The 30-day panel tells you on how many days the creator earned enough to appear on a board. Live check, under Tools, takes up to 200 handles at once and says for each one whether it is live right now and when Toktik last saw it live; run it at the hours a host claims to stream and you learn quickly who keeps their schedule.

If a creator is a serious candidate, add them to Watchlists. Toktik then tracks when they go LIVE and their rank on the boards from that day on, so a week or two later you have your own record instead of their word. Once a host signs and you add them to the Roster, Toktik shows the minutes it saw them live; that is the subject of the guide on tracking your hosts.

4. League class

TikTok's Creator League ranks creators in 18 classes, from A1 at the top to D5 at the entry level, and each class has its own daily board in each region. A creator's class tells you more than one day's score: it is where TikTok has placed them after weeks of results. In Recruit, when a creator's score today comes from a League board, the board tag names the class (for example League B3); your country's League page on Toktik (for example /rankings/vietnam/league) shows each class board, and the League requirements page shows how many diamonds rank #1, #10, #50 and #99 of every class.

Use the class to set expectations, not to sign. A creator in a C class who is steady every day can be a better host than a creator who touched a B class once. The League guide explains classes, promotion and what Toktik can and cannot see.

5. Gifter concentration: the one-whale risk

A host whose diamonds come mostly from one viewer is a fragile host: if that viewer stops, the income stops. Open the creator's profile and look at Top gifters for the last 7 or 30 days. Each gifter shows Coins · share — the coins Toktik saw them send to this creator and their percentage of the total it observed. A top gifter far ahead of everyone else is the signal to ask about. How many gifters you see, and whether totals are shown, depends on your plan.

As an illustration only: if the top gifter carries most of a creator's observed coins over 30 days and the next nine together carry less, that creator depends on one relationship. If the top ten are close to each other, the audience is broad. Clicking a gifter opens their gifting history — every creator they were observed giving to, with the Funding split — so you can see whether this viewer is loyal to this host or spreads gifts across many rooms.

Putting it together

A practical order is: shortlist in Recruit, check the 30-day panel and the bars, look up the League class, read the top gifters, then confirm the creator's eligibility and current network status in your LIVE Backstage before you send an offer. Lookup (in the app) adds the creator's profile, videos and changes over time if you also care about their short-video audience.

Write down what you saw and the date. The numbers move every day; your notes are what let you compare a host's first month with you against the month before you signed them.