Tag: tiktok

“Soon may the Wellerman come, to bring us sugar and tea and rum…” In a day of news with plenty of worries for our industry – Brexit, concert cancellations etc – here’s some light relief: the latest...

There’s a surge of activity around David Bowie this week, marking the fifth anniversary of his death, as well as what would have been his 74th birthday. Among that activity is an official TikTok channel, launched in...

App analytics firm Sensor Tower is starting 2021 with a look-back at 2020’s apps spending by customers of the iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play. “Consumers spent nearly $111 billion globally on in-app...

Amid continued uncertainty about a future sale, spin-off or shutdown in the US (or, indeed, none of the above), TikTok’s music licensing work continues. Just before Christmas the company signed a new agreement with...

It’s time for our end-of-year trends report. And no, it’s not just a giant, printable poster of a Covid-19 virus. Nobody wants that on their wall. We couldn’t ignore the novel coronavirus and its effects...

Christmas is coming, and TikTok looks increasingly likely to make it through the festive season without being sold or shut down in the US. And yes, we know that writing that sentence all but guarantees one of those two things...

Yungblud is the latest artist livestreaming for his fans on TikTok, with an event last night that saw him performing tracks from his latest album as well as holding a Q&A. Sensibly, his team also enlisted some popular...

Friday was the deadline for TikTok to be sold or shut down in the US, but now it’s Monday and neither has happened. However, the executioner’s axe has been popped back in its case for now: Bloomberg reported that...

If you’d asked us to guess the most viral video on TikTok this year, we’d probably have said the skateboarding Fleetwood Mac guy. But no, @420Doggface208’s cranberry-swigging clip is playing second fiddle...

Testy licensing talks between social media companies and collecting societies are nothing new, but the dispute between TikTok and European licensing hub Ice – founded by PRS for Music, Stim and Gema – was unusual in...

An orderly presidential transition in the US may be underway at last – not that we’re counting any chickens just yet – but that raises more questions about what’s going to happen with the sale or shutdown...

TikTok has its first nine-figure star this morning, with Charli D'Amelio becoming the first TikToker to reach more than 100 million followers on the platform. What's even more startling is the fact that she only joined...