#ThursdayTool - Tik Tok

Music Service Profile: TikTok Pte. Ltd.

Name: Tik Tok

Synopsis:

TikTok, and its Chinese counterpart Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.

Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Morning Consult named TikTok the third-fastest growing brand of 2020, after Zoom and Peacock. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing google.com.

Developer(s)

ByteDance

Initial release

September 2016

Operating system

iOS 11 or later

iPadOS

Android

Predecessor

musical.ly

Available in

40 languages

Type

Video sharing

License

Proprietary software with Terms of Use

Website

www.tiktok.com