How to Find TikTok Slideshows Worth Recreating

The best TikTok slideshow to recreate is one that beat its creator's usual views, has a format you can name in one sentence, and fits your product. Once you know what to look for, finding a few of them takes about 20 minutes a week.

This guide is for brands, app teams and small businesses that recreate slideshows for their own products. It covers where to look, how to judge a slideshow and how to save it for the next step.

Why views alone mislead you

A creator with 2 million followers can get 500,000 views on an ordinary post, while a creator with 3,000 followers who gets 500,000 views has found something that reaches well beyond their audience. The second post tells you much more about the format.

Paid posts can also mislead you, because a slideshow can have millions of views when a brand paid to show it, and those views say little about whether the format works organically.

Two questions are more useful than the view count:

1. How does it compare with the creator's usual posts?
2. Did people engage with it, or only scroll past?

Where to look

Your niche's search and hashtag pages

Search TikTok for the problem your product solves. A budgeting app gets better results from "how I save money" or "things I stopped buying" than from "budget app". Then filter for photo posts and open the ones whose views are high compared with the account's followers.

Profiles of creators in your niche

Open the profiles of five to ten creators your customers follow, and look for posts that stand far above the rest of the grid. Those are the outliers.

The Slideshow Ideas library

The Reels Farm Slideshow Ideas pages list real TikTok slideshows by niche, sorted by views, with a few per creator. They show quickly which formats repeat in niches such as fitness, skincare, apps and hair care.

Your competitors

Look at what is working for brands that sell to the same people, and note the formats they use. Their photos, words and brand stay theirs.

How to judge a slideshow in 30 seconds

Run through these five checks.

1. Outlier. Views are several times the creator's usual.
2. Engagement. Likes and saves are in proportion to the views. Very high views with very few likes often mean paid reach.
3. Clear format. You can describe it in one sentence, such as "a numbered list where the product is the last item".
4. Fit. The format makes sense for your product. "Things I stopped buying" suits a budgeting app much better than a luxury brand.
5. Freshness. It was posted in the last few months.

Save the slideshows that pass all five checks.

Let the Chrome extension do the comparison

Doing this by hand takes a long time, so the free Reels Farm Chrome extension adds the comparison to TikTok itself.

• Outlier badges. Every post on a TikTok profile gets a badge comparing its views with the creator's usual. On search and hashtag pages, views are compared with followers.
• Top posts panel. A panel lists the strongest posts on the page, with a filter for photo posts only.
• Save rate and paid hints. The list shows each post's save rate, and posts with very high views and very few likes are marked as possibly paid.
• Slideshow breakdown. Open a photo post to see every slide, the text on it, the caption, the sound and the stats, with the hook, body and call to action marked.

The outlier finder and breakdown work without an account. When you find one worth recreating, click Recreate with my product to send it to the Reels Farm slideshow composer. The Chrome extension page has the install links.

Build a small swipe file

Keep the slideshows you save in one place, with a note for each:

• the link
• the format in one sentence
• the hook on slide one
• why it fits your product

After a week or two, group them by format. The format that appears most often among the outliers in your niche is the first one to recreate.

From swipe file to post

Once you have a slideshow worth recreating:

1. Paste its link into the Reels Farm slideshow prompt box, or click Recreate with my product in the extension.
2. Pick your product, and say what should change.
3. Reels Farm reads the slides and text style, writes new copy for your product and finds new photos for the slides you changed.
4. Check every slide, then post or schedule it.

The full process is in the guide to recreating a viral TikTok slideshow.

Common mistakes

Recreating the biggest account's average post. Big accounts get views on almost everything they post, so look for outliers instead.

Trusting views without likes. A slideshow with 3 million views and 2,000 likes may have been paid, so check the engagement too.

Saving slideshows you cannot explain. If you cannot name the format, you will struggle to rebuild it.

Searching for your product instead of your customer's problem. People search for what they want to fix, so start from their problem.

Researching for too long. Five good examples are enough to start, so recreate one, post it, and let your own numbers guide the next search.

Start this week

Spend 20 minutes finding five outlier slideshows in your niche, name their formats, and recreate the one that fits your product best. Once a few posts are out, your own results will show which format to keep using. If you post for a local business, the industries pages suggest formats for restaurants, cafés, salons and gyms.