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• Fanbytes Turns Clients’ Songs Into Viral TikTok Hits
• Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Invests $100 Million Into TikTok Competitor ‘VMate’

  After Vine’s shutdown in early 2017 (RIP), few apps have emerged to fill the creative shortform video space it left behind. One of them was lip-syncing app Musical.ly, but that was purchased and subsequently subsumed last year by what’s quickly become the dominant shortform player: TikTok.

  
• TikTok Parent Company Bytedance Will Launch Paid Music Streaming Service This Fall (Report)

  With more than one billion downloads and 500 million monthly active users, Chinese company Bytedance’s flagship app TikTok has arguably dominated the shortform video space.

  
• Samsung Made A Vertical TV To Display Instagram Stories, TikToks, And Snapchats

  Samsung wants TikTok videos to be the star of your next viewing party.

  
• TikTok Hiring “Talent Ambassadors” At 17 Colleges To Help Rake In Older Users
• TikTok To Join Instagram, Snapchat In The Realm Of Geolocation Filters Following GeoGif Acquisition
• Insights: Has All Of “Social Media,” Not Just Facebook, Reached A Pivot Point?
• TikTok Parent Company Bytedance Fined $5.7 Million For Illegally Collecting Personal Information From Users Under 13
• Amid 1 Billion Downloads, TikTok Launches Video Series To Protect Its Young Users
• Indian Lawmakers Considering TikTok Ban, Calling App “Inimical To Law And Order”
• TikTok Is Eyeing Monetization With Ad Tests In The U.S. And Europe
• TikTok Pledges $2 Million In Holiday Giving Alongside Nick Jonas, Peyton List