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• Canada is ordering TikTok to shut down its offices in Vancouver and Toronto (but the app isn’t banned yet)
• TikTok is becoming a job board for Gen Z

  TikTok is already a search engine, an ecom bazaar, a box office, and a travel promoter--and now it's becoming a job board for Gen Z, with both companies and candidates seeking one another out on the platform.

  
• Asia is ByteDance’s bread and butter, but TikTok earnings are growing in the West

  TikTok's presence in the West is contributing to ByteDance's increasing earnings, even as domestic apps Toutiao and Douyin stutter.

  
• Sony just shattered a TikTok record–with a little help from 20 million comments

  To promote The Last Dance, Sony's marketing team decided to run with Marvel fans' appetite for easter eggs. It set up a campaign where people who commented specific words on videos posted by the official @venommovie account would unlock unique animations. Comment "Venom," for example, and a little animated Venom head would pop up in the center of the app screen with one of his and beloved host Eddie Brock's core catchphrases: "We are Venom."

  
• TikTok is bringing back its LIVE Fest for a second go, with streamers from 50 countries participating
• ByteDance’s founder is China’s richest person with a net worth of $49.3 billion
• After bringing STEM feed to teens, TikTok realizes that adults need to learn science, too
• Music promoters are paying to put songs in TikTok videos. The FTC says creators might not have to disclose those deals.
• TikTok parent ByteDance became an e-book publisher. Now it’s ready to revive print media.
• Have you heard? KSI got trolled by Drake.
• Enter the “Nutterverse,” Nutter Butter’s trippy TikTok rebrand
• TikTok Shop wants U.S. sellers to learn from Asia’s booming ecommerce market