A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration
ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says it hit $3B+ worth of goods sold through its app last year and viewers spend 80+ minutes per day on average on the app
Livestream shopping, while popular in Asia on apps like ByteDance-owned Douyin and Alibaba's Taobao Live, has been hard for most U.S.-focused startups and creators to crack. X: @anngehan X: Ann Gehan ...
Researchers fear TikTok is softening Taiwanese youth's stance on China with pro-China content; a report says 22% of Taiwan's population uses TikTok or Douyin
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times :
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms”
ByteDance's Douyin, PDD's Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu have promised to address issues related to the misuse of algorithms
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America
Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Baidu's PR chief Qu Jing reportedly left the company after criticism over her Douyin videos demanding that workers must be available 24 hours a day
Nectar Gan / CNN :
Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : X: @anupkaphle and @caiweic X: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : China's property market has plummeted since the pandemic. So why are sales booming in one tropical border town...
Douyin CEO Kelly Zhang steps down; a source says ByteDance will not seek to appoint a successor and Zhang will shift her focus to the video-editing app CapCut
Bloomberg :
Sources: TikTok plans to open studios in several cities, including LA, where creators can livestream and sell products, a strategy that worked for Douyin
This is the same playbook as its sister app, Douyin in China. YouTube similarly invested in creator studios years ago. — https://www.theinformation.com/ ... … LinkedIn: Kaya Yurieff : Scoop: TikTok...
A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship
Lavender Au / Wired : LinkedIn: Yongjian L. and Ethan Tan LinkedIn: Yongjian L. : Wired magazine just released an article discussing the usage of Douyin/TikTok by elderly individuals in China. It fe...