TikTok

• TikTok’s first concert was its biggest livestream yet
• 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.

  Beginning Dec. 16, 2023, creators in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and France will no longer receive payouts from the fund.

  
• 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.
• V Pappas is leaving TikTok