TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is hunting for partners to launch its live shopping offering in the US as it is looking to outsource operations for these features. The company has been talking with California-based TalkShopLive to provide infrastructure for live shopping features on TikTok. This tech will allow creators and brands to sell goods through videos on the platform. TalkShopLive takes a 10% commission from sellers for providing its services, and TikTok is likely to cover that cost for the project's initial phase.
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TikTok Is Said to Be Launching Live Shopping in the US
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TikTok Breaks Records as Top Grossing App in Q3
TECH CRUNCH - Consumers reduced their mobile app spending in Q3 of 2022 by ~5%, but the social video app TikTok just delivered another record-breaking quarter on this front. TikTok's global app along with Douyin on iOS together retained the position as the top-grossing non-game app across the App Store and Google Play combined, with ~$914.4M in consumer spending in the quarter.
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TikTok Says Fake Account Removal Increased 61% to 33.6M in Q2 2022
TECH CRUNCH - In Q2 of 2022, TikTok reports that it removed 33.6M fake accounts for the quarter, representing a 61% increase from the 20.8M accounts it removed in the previous quarter. Looking further back to the corresponding Q2 of 2021 shows that TikTok's fake account removal rate has grown by ~2,000% over 12 months.
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TikTok Faces $29M Fine in the UK for 'Failing to Protect Children's Privacy'
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is facing a $29M fine after the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) provisionally found that the company breached child data protection laws for 2 years. The ICO noted that the company allegedly processed data of children under the age of 13 without parental consent. Additionally, it said the company may have "failed to provide proper information to its users in a concise, transparent and easily understood way" and "processed special category data, without legal grounds to do so."
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TikTok Is Releasing Its Comment Dislike Button to All Users Worldwide
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is rolling out its comment dislike button globally to all users. The short-form video app started testing the dislike button in April as a way for users to identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate.
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TikTok Takes Aim at Political Grifting and Fundraising in Latest Policy Tweaks
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok announced an incoming tightening of its policies around political accounts using its video-sharing platform, such as those belonging to political parties, politicians and governments. Political accounts will be ineligible for TikTok's Creator Fund, as well as being unable to access ad features by default.
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ByteDance Sees Valuation Drop a Quarter to $300B After Latest Share Buy-back
SCMP - ByteDance, China's most valuable unicorn, is budgeting up to $3B to repurchase shares from existing investors at $177 apiece. The company's valuation had dropped from a peak of $400B last year when it was reportedly looking to list in New York or Hong Kong.
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TikTok Just Launched a BeReal Clone Called TikTok Now
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok launched a new feature that is just a copy of BeReal, the buzzy French social app that's been steadily gaining popularity. "TikTok Now invites you and your friends to capture what you're doing in the moment using your device's front and back camera," the company's blog reads. "You'll receive a daily prompt to capture a 10-second video or a static photo to easily share what you're up to."
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TikTok Is Testing a New 'Nearby' Feed to Display Local Content
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is testing a new 'Nearby' feed that is designed to display local content to users. The new feed is being tested with select users in Southeast Asia and that the test is currently limited in scope. Users who are part of the limited test will see the new feed tab displayed alongside the "Following" and "For You" feeds on the app's homepage.
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TikTok's In-app Browser Could Be Keylogging, Privacy Analysis Warns
TECH CRUNCH - Independent privacy research by developer Felix Krause found TikTok's iOS app injecting code that could enable it to monitor all keyboard inputs and taps. "TikTok iOS subscribes to every keystroke (text inputs) happening on third-party websites rendered inside the TikTok app. This can include passwords, credit card information, and other sensitive user data," warns Krause in a blog post detailing the findings. "We can't know what TikTok uses the subscription for, but from a technical perspective, this is the equivalent of installing a keylogger on third-party websites," he emphasizes.
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Facebook Is Losing Its Grip as a 'Top 10' App as BeReal and TikTok Grow
TECH CRUNCH - Facebook this year has been struggling to maintain its position among the Top 10 apps on the U.S. App Store as younger consumers shift to newer social networking experiences like TikTok and now BeReal. The company hasn't consistently held onto a strong position in the Top 10 in prior years, either.
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New TikTok Feature Lets Creators Share TikTok Stories to Popular Social Apps
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is launching a new sharing feature that will allow users to publish their TikTok Stories - a feature it has been piloting since last year - to rival social networks, including both Facebook and Instagram. TikTok did not confirm when the feature would fully roll out to its global user base.
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TikTok Launches New Ad Solutions With Smarter Targeting and Amplified Product Discovery
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok is launching a new commerce ad suite called "Shopping Ads". It allows advertisers to highlight one or more products in their in-feed video ads in a way that amplifies product discovery and purchase intent. The company is currently testing three formats of Shopping Ads, including Video Shopping Ads, Catalog Listing Ads, and LIVE Shopping Ads. Shopping Ads provide dynamic experiences based on the shopper's intent to purchase, with smart targeting and optimized ad delivery.
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TikTok Rolls out a Basic In-app, Text-to-image AI Generator
TECH CRUNCH - TikTok has rolled a new in-app text-to-image AI generator that lets users type in a prompt and receive an image that can be used as the background in their videos. The effect is called "AI greenscreen" and can be accessed via the short-form video app's camera screen. The images that TikTok's AI generator produces are quite basic when compared to the output from notable text-to-image models where TikTok's model produces abstract imagery.
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YouTube Is the Most Popular Social Media Among Teens, Followed by TikTok
CBS NEWS - YouTube and TikTok's popularity among teens has skyrocketed in recent years, while other social media platforms, like Facebook, have seen a decrease in teens using their services. 95% of kids ages 13 to 17 say they use YouTube. And 19% say they use YouTube almost constantly. TikTok is the second most popular among this age group, with 67% of 13 to 17 saying they use it. On top of that, 16% say they use TikTok almost constantly.
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