Tag: TikTok
TikTok and Shopify launch partnership to help UK businesses
TikTok and Shopify have today announced a partnership in the UK, helping Shopify merchants create and run ad campaigns through TikTok's social media platform. In the past year, Shopify has seen high growth in the UK market with the number of new store creations on Shopify increasing 116% vs. 2019, it claims. Some of the…
China to reach 1.1 Billion social media users by 2025
Social media is one of the most popular activities on the internet in many parts of the world with 3.6 billion users globally. One of the fastest-growing social media regions is in Mainland China, despite the country imposing a ban on foreign internet corporations such as Facebook. According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, Mainland China is…
1 in 4 TikTok fitness influencers giving wrong advice
New research has been released that reveals that one in four fitness influencers on TikTok are giving incorrect workout advice, despite increasing demand for useful 'FitTok' content during lockdown. Money.co.uk worked with qualified personal trainer, Maiken Brustad, to analyse hours of fitness content on the video-sharing app and grade them based on the techniques…
Zoom was fastest growing brand in 2020, claims survey
Several brands experienced tremendous growth in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic shifting demand in many industries. One of the brands that became a household name during the pandemic was video communications company Zoom. According to data presented by Trading Platforms, Zoom was the fastest-growing brand of 2020 with a 34% growth in brand recognition. COVID-19…
TikTok now available on your TV screen
TikTok has today (February 4th, 2021) announced a new app on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, bringing TikTok's trending content into the home of people across the UK, France and Germany. Building on the Samsung TV partnership announced in December, the new app follows a similar approach and is specially designed for a…
TikTok feature to help epileptics avoid seizures
Social media network TikTok has announced a new feature that will allow people with photosensitive epilepsy to skip videos that could trigger their seizures, reports the BBC. It comes a few months after it began labelling videos featuring effects such as flashing lights. The Skip All option, to be rolled out in the next few…
1 in 3 wish TikTok had never been invented, survey reveals
Social media is the creation of the last 20 years most disliked by consumers, with a third of people (33%) wishing that TikTok had never been invented, reveals research from Uswitch.com. Facebook (30%), Twitter (27%) and Instagram (23%) were the second, third and fourth-least popular inventions. But it’s not just the older generations who regret…
1 in 4 would be happy with ‘brain implants’
A quarter of people (24%) would be happy to see technology implanted in their brain to help them communicate, reveals research from price comparison site Uswitch.com, as it examines changes to technology since the year 2000. Brain implants like Elon Musk’s proposed Neuralink will let us control our gadgets with our thoughts and communicate at…
Simple Steps on How to Remove the TikTok Watermark
It's official - TikTok has taken over the world. And no, we are not talking about Kesha's hit from the 2010s (even though it was and still definitely is a bop). The app - TikTok has become the most downloaded non-game app of all time, with over 2 billion downloads as of 2020. It looks…
EE Mobile Network data report – usage shifts from cities to suburbs
EE has released its Mobile Network data report from February to May 2020, tracking the changing trends and habits of the UK’s most used apps and services throughout lockdown. What it found was that in the UK, EE’s network saw a 45% increase in traffic for Apps used primarily to communicate - including WhatsApp, Houseparty,…
