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• Amid 1 Billion Downloads, TikTok Launches Video Series To Protect Its Young Users
• TikTok Is Eyeing Monetization With Ad Tests In The U.S. And Europe

  TikTok, the Bytedance-owned lip-syncing and short-form video app -- known for proliferating quirky memes and user challenges -- is weighing new monetization strategies.

  
• TikTok Pledges $2 Million In Holiday Giving Alongside Nick Jonas, Peyton List

  Short-form video hub TikTok has enlisted a bevy of high-profile celebrity users to help raise money for charity this holiday season.

  
• TikTok Tops App Charts, Beating Out YouTube, Facebook, Instagram In Number Of October Downloads

  Chinese company Bytedance’s August decision to merge then-popular lip-syncing app Musical.ly into its own shortform lip-syncing app TikTok appears to have paid off.

  
• Content Aggregation App TopBuzz Offers Discovery, Monetization Prospects For Digital Publishers And Creators
• TikTok Launches Film Independent Partnership With $10,000 Contest To Support Creators At The LA Film Festival
• Insights: With Billion-Dollar Sibling Musical.ly Now Merged Into Its Platform, Is It Time For TikTok?
• Bytedance Nixes Musical.ly Brand As Short-Form Video Site Merges Into Sister Platform ‘TikTok’
• Musical.ly Reportedly Shut Down Live.ly Because Its Owner Didn’t Want A LiveMe Competitor
• Musical.ly To Fold Live Streaming Service Live.ly Into Its Primary App
• Former Musical.ly President Alex Hofmann Joins Music Messaging App TuneMoji
• Musical.ly To Distribute $25,000 And $10,000 College Scholarships To Visionary ‘Musers’