TikTok owner ByteDance confirms smartphone plans

TikTok owner ByteDance confirms smartphone plans

ByteDance, the Chinese social media firm which is home to TikTok, has confirmed its plans to develop its own smartphone, months after it was reported that the project existed. The device will be developed as part of a deal with Chinese phone maker Smartisan, which had already had plans to develop the device before ByteDance got […]

Tik Tok’s daily active users in China top 250 million

Tik Tok’s daily active users in China top 250 million

Tik Tok’s daily active users have exceeded 250 million as short video viewing continues to explode in China. Figures from China Internet Watch revealed the Bytedance owned short-video app outperformed rival app Kwai, which attracted 160 million daily active users. The figures reveal the huge appetite for short video apps among Chinese consumers and the […]

ByteDance launches video chat app to challenge Tencent’s WeChat

ByteDance launches video chat app to challenge Tencent’s WeChat

ByteDance, the Chinese company behind popular short video app TikTok, has decided it is time to take on Tencent in China’s messaging app game. The world’s most valuable startup has launched a video messaging app in a space dominated by WeChat. The app, named ‘Duoshan’, works in a similar way to Snapchat, enabling users to send videos […]

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed has signed a licensing deal with China’s Bytedance Technology Co, which will help the American publisher circumvent the country’s firewall and enter the Chinese market. The Chinese publisher owns Toutiao, a news and videos aggregator platform, and Xigua, which focuses on short video clips. It currently has about 200 million daily active users around […]