THE CLARE PEOPLE - ByteDance intends to launch a new music app still in 2021. Internally identified by the code "luna," the streaming application is provisionally called "Feile" and developed by the same team from the short videos social network.
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ByteDance May Launch New Rival for Spotify
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TikTok's Take-off Fuels Hyper-scale Datacentre Spend by ByteDance
COMPUTER WEEKLY - The take-off of TikTok has led to ByteDance, being classified as a hyper-scale datacentre operator. The analyst house's quarterly hyper-scale datacentre market tracker data shows that in just 3 years, ByteDance has risen from obscurity to become the world's seventh-biggest datacentre spender.
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TikTok Expands Mental Health Resources
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is implementing new tactics to educate its users about the negative mental health impacts of social media. As part of these changes, TikTok is rolling out a "well-being guide" in its Safety Center, a brief primer on eating disorders, expanded search interventions, and opt-in viewing screens on potentially triggering searches.
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Triller Seeks Judgment on the Pleadings in TikTok Patent Lawsuit
LAW STREET MEDIA - According to a filing submitted by Triller, the claims of 3 patents belonging to ByteDance are unpatentable. The motion for judgment on the pleadings asserts that the patents' 20 claims are invalid under 35 U.S.C. ยง 101 for effectively claiming an abstract idea.
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TikTok Tops YouTube in Watch Time Among Android Users
ECOMMERCE TIMES - The average user of TikTok spends more time in that app than the average user spends in YouTube. During the most recent month, the average monthly time per U.S. user for TikTok was 24 hrs and 38 mins, compared to 22 hrs and 40 mind for YouTube. In the U.K., it was 25 hrs and 52 mins for TikTok and 15 hrs and 53 mins for YouTube.
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TikTok, Livestreaming, and 'Creator Economy' Quickly Changing Social Apps Landscape
USA TODAY - Live streaming and the explosion of the "creator economy" are igniting the current rise in social media app use and rapidly changing the landscape. This year, consumers have already downloaded ~9.2B apps and are expected to spend 740B hrs on them. That includes an estimated 548B hours of them live streaming.
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TikTok Publishes a Report Into User Trends That Influence Marketing and App Usage
DIGITAL INFORMATION WORLD - Sep 3 - TikTok reports the increase in users over the pandemic and the influx in a report that highlighted the user activity all across the face. The report mentioned the increase in enjoyment towards users and showed that the community stays for the creativity and the feeling of fulfillment and, at times, inspiration.
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TikTok Adds Educational Resources for Parents
TECH CRUNCH - Sep 2 - TikTok is expanding its in-app parental controls feature, Family Pairing, with educational resources designed to help parents better support their teenage users. The organization developed a set of resources in collaboration with teens that aim to offer parents tips about navigating the TikTok landscape and teenage social media usage in general.
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TikTok's Creator Marketplace API Lets Marketing Companies Tap Into First-party Data
TECH CRUNCH - Sep 1 - TikTok is rolling out a new "TikTok Creator Marketplace API," which allows marketing companies to integrate more directly with TikTok's Creator Marketplace, the video app's in-house influencer marketing platform. The new API is still in pilot testing phases for the time being.
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ByteDance Buys a Top VR Hardware Startup
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 31 - ByteDance is buying up its own VR headset maker called Pico. In March, Pico had raised some $62M in venture funding from Chinese firms, including a $37M Series B. Pico creates both hardware and software for their VR devices and has a substantial presence in China.
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TikTok Expands Shopify Partnership, Pilots TikTok Shopping in US, UK, and Canada
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 25 - TikTok expands partnership with e-commerce platform Shopify, as well as a pilot test of TikTok Shopping among select Shopify merchants across the U.S., U.K., and Canada in the weeks to come. This partnership involves bringing product links to Shopify merchants, which can tag products in their TikTok videos.
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TikTok Is Building Its AR Development Platform, TikTok Effect Studio
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 24 - TikTok launched a new creative toolset called TikTok Effect Studio, currently in private beta testing, which will allow its own developer community to build AR effects for the TikTok app. On a new website titled "Effect House," TikTok asks interested developers to sign up for early access to Effect Studio.
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SiriusXM Launches 'TikTok Radio,' a Music Channel Featuring Viral Hits
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 23 - SiriusXM launched a TikTok Radio channel, which features TikTok creators as channel hosts. The station is designed to sound like a "radio version of the platform's 'For You' feed." TikTok stars host this channel. SiriusXM reported a total of 34.5 million subscribers as of Q2 this year and saw a 34% YoY growth from last year.
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ByteDance Joins the Open Invention Network
ZDNET - Aug 18 - ByteDance has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN). By becoming a licensee and community member of OIN, ByteDance will be sharing its other patents with Helo, Resso, and the Chinese-specific programs Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua.
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TikTok Partners With Music Streamer Audius to Create TikTok Sounds
CNET - Aug 17 - TikTok is partnering with Audius, a streaming platform for musicians, to give artists a new way to upload their music. TikTok Sounds, the new feature from the partnership, will reportedly let artists export songs already housed on Audius to TikTok with one click.
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