TikTok
5 years, 5 months ago

TikTok

BBC  

TikTok Piero Zagami and Michela Nicchiotti The next big growth in video is on TikTok, where there’s a lot of money to be had. The app, which sees users share short videos, often based around memes, was downloaded more than 660 million times in 2018 alone – 220 million more times than Instagram. “The engagement and reach you’re going to get on this platform is often better than you’re going to get on other platforms – and at a fraction of the cost,” says Josh Shepherd, co-founder of TikTok talent agency Influentially. Take one of the hits of 2019: Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’s song, Old Town Road, was supercharged through The Yeehaw Challenge, a meme where TikTok users recorded themselves dancing along to the song in cowboy clothes.

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Tinashe beats Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish to TikTok song of the summer
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tinashe beats Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish to TikTok song of the summer

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US singer Tinashe has beaten the likes of Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish …

TikTok is finally on the decline. Here’s why.
10 months, 2 weeks ago

TikTok is finally on the decline. Here’s why.

Slate  

Don’t look now, but after half a decade of transforming public life on an international scale, TikTok may finally be entering its flop era. Then, there’s also the sharp slowdown in user growth over the past year, widespread annoyance with its ad-heavy push into e-commerce via the “TikTok Shop,” impatience with its never-ending deluge of A.I.–generated spam and misinformation, exhaustion …

TikTok’s addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture
2 years ago

TikTok’s addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture

LA Times  

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive “The Metamorphosis” for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web. Facebook’s dull-blue interface feels so bureaucratic that critic Joanne McNeil once wrote that it looked “as …

TikTok, authenticity and self-care: The 2023 Grammy roundtable
2 years, 1 month ago

TikTok, authenticity and self-care: The 2023 Grammy roundtable

LA Times  

Clockwise from top left: Grammy nominees Babyface, Nija Charles, Kim Petras, Blake Slatkin and Muni Long. Our panelists: • Singer, songwriter and producer Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, 64, who’s up for traditional R&B performance — his 50th Grammy nod in a career that stretches back to the mid-1970s — with his song “Keeps On Fallin’.” • Singer and songwriter Muni Long, …

Corn Kid, Jiggle Jiggle, About Damn Time: TikTok reveals most viewed videos of 2022
2 years, 1 month ago

Corn Kid, Jiggle Jiggle, About Damn Time: TikTok reveals most viewed videos of 2022

The Independent  

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The homogenisation of music: of TikToks and viral reels
2 years, 1 month ago

The homogenisation of music: of TikToks and viral reels

The Hindu  

There was once a time when everyone, generally, listened to the same English-language music. Instagram taking over the industry Soon after India banned TikTok, social media giant, Instagram, introduced “reels”, short videos usually no more than a minute long, featuring people dancing, lip-syncing to songs, showcasing various fashion trends, making jokes, really, just about anything else you can think of. …

Beyoncé finally joins TikTok, bringing all of her music along for the ride
2 years, 5 months ago

Beyoncé finally joins TikTok, bringing all of her music along for the ride

LA Times  

The BeyHive has a new space to assemble: Beyoncé has joined TikTok, and she brought all of her music with her. Queen Bey’s first TikTok, posted Thursday morning, was a compilation of her many, many fans, including rapper Cardi B, joyfully singing, dancing and just generally celebrating her newest single, “Break My Soul.” “Seeing y’all release the wiggle made me …

How to become TikTok famous: Struggling musician clocks 20 million views after covering himself in a ‘zebra tan’
2 years, 7 months ago

How to become TikTok famous: Struggling musician clocks 20 million views after covering himself in a ‘zebra tan’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Covered from head-to-toe with dazzling zebra stripes, Rich Fortuna, …

TikTok reveals its most popular song of 2021
3 years ago

TikTok reveals its most popular song of 2021

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Body” also achieved another first earlier this year, becoming …

In a country without TikTok, its erstwhile stars are thriving
3 years, 7 months ago

In a country without TikTok, its erstwhile stars are thriving

Live Mint  

PUNE : In the summer of 2016, Prem Vats, then 17, stumbled on his first fifteen seconds of fame on a platform called Dubsmash. Ultimately, the ban that affected 200 million Indian users of TikTok didn’t make much difference to Vats’s career as a creator of entertainment content. A platform like TikTok needs its creators to come up with content, …

TikTok turns average joes into stars. Then what?
3 years, 8 months ago

TikTok turns average joes into stars. Then what?

Live Mint  

When Kendra Womack uploaded a short video of her aunt’s Labrador retriever to TikTok last year, she didn’t expect what happened next. “On TikTok, everyone feels like they can be seen," said Sarah Peretz, a social-media consultant who helps brands and musicians with marketing. Snapchat and Facebook both attempted to replicate the success of TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, and in August, …

How TikTok came back to life after Trump’s threats
3 years, 10 months ago

How TikTok came back to life after Trump’s threats

LA Times  

Last summer, TikTok appeared to be on the ropes. On Thursday, the Department of Justice asked to pause the appeal process until new agency officials can become familiar with the issues in the case, adding such a review “may narrow the issues presented or eliminate the need for judicial review entirely.” Although it’s uncertain how the Biden administration will ultimately …

How TikTok changed the world in 2020
4 years ago

How TikTok changed the world in 2020

BBC  

How TikTok changed the world in 2020 Getty Images Paris TikTok house The oft-maligned, most downloaded app of the year changed comedy, music and activism – its success is a refreshing revolution for meritocratic self-expression, writes Sophia Smith-Galer. There's a bold internet culture on TikTok; you kind of have to be a consumer of the content to be a good …

A year in 60 secs: TikTok lists top videos, creators of 2020
4 years, 1 month ago

A year in 60 secs: TikTok lists top videos, creators of 2020

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B’s rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances and memes in 60 seconds or less. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love” inspired TikTok dance challenges that made them among the top songs used on the app, as well as …

TikTok has been saved. But for music, is that a good thing?
4 years, 3 months ago

TikTok has been saved. But for music, is that a good thing?

LA Times  

The rise of TikTok, says one music executive, “is like the disco era. But what it’s become is bigger: This month, a young makeup artist with the handle Skiian used the song to soundtrack a brief video on TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform; the clip went viral, spawning tens of thousands of imitators and driving listeners to Rutter’s …

Popular TikTok stars to leave platform for rival app over data privacy concerns
4 years, 5 months ago

Popular TikTok stars to leave platform for rival app over data privacy concerns

LA Times  

When Josh Richards first began posting lip-syncing videos as a high school freshman four years ago, he never imagined he would one day become a huge TikTok star. But now Richards has decided to leave the platform that made him a star, citing growing concerns about TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance and how it manages user data. Hollywood Inc. Amid …

This TikTok tune is making India dance, from rooftops to bedrooms. Watch viral videos
5 years, 11 months ago

This TikTok tune is making India dance, from rooftops to bedrooms. Watch viral videos

India Today  

It is the season of online challenges. Our favourite video sharing app TikTok too has some viral challenges going around. This video took us back to our child, this one is a walk down the memory lane. We are reminiscing all cousins having fun together in our nani's house looking at this video, but nobody could dance like this. ALSO …

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