tiktok

• TikTok isn’t just challenging YouTube for views. It’s impacting Google search traffic, too.
• The co-founder of TikTok predecessor Musical.ly has left Bytedance

  Luyu Yang co-founded the lip sync app Musical.ly, which was later merged with TikTok. Now he has departed his role at Bytedance.

  
• ‘Follow Me’ program will “empower more small businesses to dive into TikTok”

  Brands like Feel Your Soul and Tassel Amor will talk about the ways they use TikTok as part of a small business initiative called Follow Me.

  
• Here’s how much TikTok paid the entire music industry in 2021 (Report)

  TikTok has become known for making music go viral. But how much is it paying the artists behind those songs?

  
• The former head of gaming content at TikTok is co-founding a “blockchain-agnostic” Web3 startup
• TikTok’s letting some users keep minors from seeing their livestreams
• TikTok Shop struggled to catch on in the U.K. Now Bytedance is dialing back its e-commerce plans.
• TikTok head talks ‘Project Texas’ in response to rising data security concerns
• Khaby Lame has the most followers on TikTok. Now he’s getting into NFTs
• FCC commissioner says TikTok is an “unacceptable national security risk”
• Hank Green says “the curse of the swipe” is upon us. What happens next?
• Khaby Lame has passed Charli D’Amelio to become TikTok’s most-followed creator