TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube in downloads last month

Post by LittlePeter » Sat, Nov 03, 2018, 8:59 AM UTC

lozaning wrote: post #47

dylz wrote: post #6

TikTok has some of the worst misleading and bizarre advertisements all over the internet. I'm kind of curious what their advertising budget is at this point.

Do you means the adds for the app seen elsewhere are strange, or that the adds you see in their app are weird?

Post by wuliwong » Tue, Nov 06, 2018, 12:26 AM UTC

askafriend wrote: post #5

AznHisoka wrote: post #3

Maybe it surpassed downloads because almost everyone in the planet already has FB, YouTube, etc. installed, and not as many has TikTok installed? So I don't see how this metric is really that impressive.

When it's the strongest signal you have in your business, as an entrepreneur you've got to sell it. And in self-interest, TechCrunch wants to help sell the story so they're going to use the strongest signal the business will give them to validate relevancy. Those are likely the mechanics at play when the result is a title like that. Like you're saying, it's not really impressive, but it's probably the most interestin…