E-Commerce Livestreaming in U.S. Heats Up as TikTok and Walmart Broadcast Joint Session

 /  Livestreaming  / 
TikTok concluded its first livestreamed e-commerce sales session featuring U.S. retail giant Walmart on Friday night, with up to 20,000 viewers watching the one-hour show. Read More

CCI Take: TikTok Is a Content-Commerce Conduit for Global Gen Z

 /  Short Video  / 
Amid the whiplash-inducing news surrounding TikTok’s future in the United States, which has left even the company itself struggling to understand its future status, the Bytedance-owned app continues to move forward with monetization efforts in international markets (with the obvious exception of India) as it gains popularity among the increasingly lucrative Gen Z demographic.  Read More

TikTok and Sister App Douyin Retain Crown as World’s Most Downloaded Non-Game App

 /  Short Video  / 
Last month, TikTok, and its sister app Douyin, were downloaded 66 million times globally, representing a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, according to a report by research firm SensorTower. Read More

TikTok Invites U.K. Lawmakers to Review Content Moderation Over Ties to Beijing

 /  Technology  / 
TikTok’s U.K. branch has invited local lawmakers to review its algorithm and how it moderates content in an attempt to earn the trust of British policymakers who believe Beijing exerts influence on the short video app’s content moderation process, according to a report by CNBC. Read More

Headlines From China: Could TikTok and Troye Sivan Be Perfect Diary’s DTC Conduit to the Global Gen Z Market?

 /  Headlines From China  / 
To date, Perfect Diary has yet to make aggressive moves into Western markets. But this could be set to change with the brand’s announcement of Australian actor and singer Troye Sivan as the new face of its animal eye shadow collection. Read More

TikTok is World’s Highest-Earning Non-Game App Despite U.S. and India Headwinds

 /  News  / 
Despite losing India, a market that contributed a large part of its global downloads, and uncertainties over its fate in the U.S., ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok was still the world’s most downloaded and highest-earning non-game app in September. Read More

Headlines from China: TikTok Deal is About to Close, ByteDance Plans US IPO For TikTok Global

 /  Headlines From China  / 
The Beijing-based Internet giant Bytedance, is planning to list TikTok Global—the joint venture set up in the latest TikTok deal, in U.S. stock market should its proposed deal be cleared by the U.S. government. Read More

TikTok Retains Pole Position as World’s Highest-Earning Non-Game App Despite U.S. Threats

 /  News  / 
Despite losing the Indian market and President Donald Trump’s threat to ban it in the U.S., ByteDance-owned TikTok was still the world’s highest-earning non-game app in August, although the app’s August earnings were less than those of the previous three months. Read More

Headlines from China: TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer Resigns As US Pressure Mounts

 /  Headlines From China  / 
Kevin Mayer, chief executive officer of the embattled video-sharing app Tiktok, said on Wednesday that he has decided to leave the company as the current U.S. administration’s pressure on banning the app mounts quickly. Read More

Top Japanese Lawmaker Suggests TikTok Sells Local Business to Address Security Concerns

 /  Legal  / 
Japan is tightening the screws on the embattled TikTok, with a top lawmaker suggesting that changing the ownership of the ByteDance-owned short video app’s Japan business could help address mounting data security concerns. Read More

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Sign up for our newsletter right now to have breaking news and the best stories of China Film Insider delivered to you.