"Boy Room" is a TikTok hit. But the studio behind it didn't make any money from its success until Amazon showed up.
Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.
After various videos and comments about wanting to buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned, MrBeast has helped put in an offer.
Under the deal being negotiated by the White House, TikTok’s China-based owner, ByteDance, would retain a stake in the company, but data collection and software updates would be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of TikTok’s Web infrastructure, one of the sources told Reuters.
Social media titan TikTok is under pressure to sell its operations, owing to laws passed by U.S. Congress. Could Microsoft swoop in?
Though the TikTok Ban lasted less than 24 hours, content creators and influencers have been pushed to consider other social media platforms outside of TikTok.
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James "Jimmy" Donaldson, known as MrBeast on YouTube, made an offhand comment to X this week, saying he'd buy TikTok so it doesn't get banned.
As revealed by Omdia ’s Senior Research Director María Rua Aguete at a Content Americas panel, it surpassed 1.9 billion monthly active users globally, with 145 million in the U.S. alone. In terms of video revenues, TikTok reached $63.3 billion globally – nearly doubling YouTube’s global ad revenues of $33.3 billion.
Will TikTok find a U.S. buyer to remain legal? After Trump vowed to make a deal to save the app, MrBeast has emerged as part of a joint bid.
President Donald Trump gave the social media platform more time to comply with a law that requires it to divest its Chinese ownership.