TikTok

• TikTok tells creators it’ll boost their horizontal videos to more viewers (but won’t pay them for additional views)
• TikTok’s first concert was its biggest livestream yet

  TikTok's first concert, rocked out by artists like Cardi B, Peso Pluma, Charlie Puth, Niall Horan, and Anitta, was the platform's biggest livestreamed event to date, it says.

  
• Creators who upload long-form content to TikTok are growing 5x faster than those who don’t

  During a creator event in late October, TikTok told attendees that across its entire userbase, people now spend half their time on the app watching videos that are longer than 60 seconds.

  
• TikTok users walk out after creator it promoted is convicted of rape

  Anthony Ekpenyong, 37, was convicted in a London court and sentenced to seven years in prison on Nov. 2. The night before, he was live on TikTok as musician Anthony Q Lion, having hidden his crime and impending sentence from his nearly 340,000 followers.

  
• TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund is shutting down. Here’s how creators are getting paid from now on.
• TikTok fined $367 million for alleged child data privacy issues
• TikTok and the BBC are taking 100 creators to boot camp
• TikTok says to label your AI content—or else
• TikTok wants creators to take the mic in a livestreamed singing competition
• TikTok wants to do $20 billion in retail this year
• TikTok wants to Elevate up-and-coming internet music stars
• BookTok can make bestsellers. So ByteDance is becoming a publisher.