Certified TikTok Shop partner
We represent brands and talent on TikTok.
Certified in all four categories, and working directly with TikTok’s executive team — which creates opportunities to put our clients into TikTok’s special programmes and events. We run the shop, the creator programme and the live selling, out of professional studios built inside a working warehouse.
Why DCA
Access, and a room to use it in.
Two things separate a TikTok Shop that moves from one that sits. Whether the platform is behind you, and whether you can actually get on camera four times a week. We have both.
A direct line into TikTok
DCA works directly with executives at TikTok rather than through a partner support queue. What that gives a client is optionality: the opportunity to be put forward for TikTok’s special programmes and events, earlier visibility on what the platform is pushing, and a person to call when something needs resolving. Very few agencies have that access, and it is the reason most clients call.
Certified four ways
TikTok Shop certification across four categories: representing brands, representing talent, affiliate marketing, and the entertainment side of TikTok. That means direct lines into TikTok’s team, early access to platform features, and agency-level commission structures a brand cannot get on its own.
Live studios, not a spare desk
Professional live selling studios built inside a working warehouse in Thousand Oaks: broadcast cameras, studio lighting, teleprompter, changeable backdrops, and local hosts and operators who run sessions week after week. Most agencies book a studio when a client asks for one.
A billion dollars of GMV behind it
Paul Shrater has driven more than $1 billion in gross merchandise value across his e-commerce, third-party logistics and contract packaging businesses. TikTok Shop is a new channel; moving product at volume is not new to this team.
The retainer is credited, not stacked
You pay a retainer against a percentage of sales, not a retainer plus a percentage. If the sales come, the retainer is absorbed. Ask any other agency you are considering how their fee works.
Most agencies book a studio when a brand wants to go live. Ours is in the warehouse, ten feet from the product.
Six to nine hours of live selling a week is not a production schedule anyone sustains by renting a room and hiring a crew each time. It works when the room is already there, the lighting is already set and the same hosts turn up every week.
What we run
Four things, run together
Each works on its own. They work better together, because the same team sees the listing, the creator brief and the live session. Fulfillment is there if you want it and is never a condition of working with us.
TikTok Shop management
Shop setup, product listings, pricing and bundling, order management, compliance and violation handling, and the weekly reporting that tells you what is actually working.
Creator and affiliate programs
Recruiting, briefing and managing the creators who do the selling, run through partner specialist networks that already hold thousands of vetted US creators by category.
LIVE selling
Weekly sessions from our own studios in Thousand Oaks — broadcast cameras, lighting, teleprompter and backdrops, with local hosts and operators, and your product in the same building.
Content production
Shoppable video produced in-house and through partner creators, at the volume the platform actually requires.
Fulfillment
Optional. Pick, pack, ship and kitting through the partner 3PL whose Thousand Oaks warehouse we work inside — or integration with the 3PL you already use.
A separate service
Sourcing, only if you want it
Most brands arrive with a supplier they are happy with, and we leave that alone. Sourcing is a separate engagement with its own agreement and its own fee — never bundled into an agency retainer, and not something we raise unless you do.
It exists because some brands ask. If your factory cannot scale to the volume TikTok demand creates, your landed cost leaves no room for creator commission, or you want a second source so one factory is not a single point of failure, our China side has spent twenty years with the manufacturers who can help.
Sourcing from China
A standalone sourcing-agent service: factory identification and vetting, sample runs, landed cost modeling, lead times and pre-shipment inspection. Contracted separately from any TikTok Shop work.
Selling into China
Setting up and running brand and creator accounts on the major Chinese e-commerce and live-selling platforms, with China-based creator agency partnerships and local fulfillment.
For creators and talent
The other half of the business
DCA is certified to represent talent, not just brands — a separate certification from the one most agencies hold. If you have an audience and no commerce operation behind it, this is a distinct track with its own team.
TikTok's supported programmes
Entry into the shoppable video and live selling programmes that come with platform support, rather than working the algorithm alone.
Live selling, produced
Hosting support, scheduling, production and the run of show, so selling does not consume your content calendar.
Brand matching
Brands that fit and do not conflict with what you already endorse, including introductions made through TikTok.
A product line of your own
Our factory partners in China, our packaging and our fulfillment behind a product that is actually yours rather than an affiliate link.
Common questions
Is DCA an official TikTok Shop partner?
Yes, and the working relationship goes further than the certificate. DCA holds four certifications — representing brands, representing talent, affiliate marketing, and the entertainment side of TikTok — and we work directly with executives at TikTok rather than through a partner support queue. That access creates opportunities: brands and talent can be put forward for TikTok’s special programmes and events, and there is a person to call when something needs resolving. Most agencies describing themselves as TikTok Shop agencies hold no certification at all, so it is worth asking anyone you speak to for their documentation.
What size brand does DCA work with?
Consumer brands doing roughly one to twenty million dollars a year that want a real TikTok Shop operation rather than an experiment. We work with brands new to the platform and with brands already selling on it who have stalled.
Do you have your own live selling studios?
Yes — professional studios inside a working warehouse in Thousand Oaks, with broadcast cameras, studio lighting, teleprompter and changeable backdrops, staffed by local hosts and operators. Because the studios sit in the warehouse, your product is already in the building on session day. This is the main reason our clients can sustain a weekly live cadence.
Do you charge a retainer and a percentage?
No. The retainer is credited against a percentage of sales rather than charged on top of it, so you are not paying twice for the same result. Most agencies in this category charge both.
Do you handle fulfillment?
It is available and it is optional. We work out of a partner 3PL’s warehouse in Thousand Oaks — a long-standing relationship of our founder’s rather than a company we own — and we can put your fulfillment there if it suits you. Many of our clients keep the 3PL they already have, and that is completely fine.
Can you help us source the product itself?
We can, but it is a separate service with its own agreement, and most brands do not need it. If you have a supplier you are happy with, keep it — we are not trying to get between you and your factory. Where it helps is when a factory cannot scale to TikTok volume, when landed cost leaves no room for creator commission, or when you want a second source.
Tell us what you sell.
A short call is enough to tell whether TikTok Shop is a fit for your category and what the first ninety days would look like.