TikTok videos can be no longer than 15 seconds. It has gained popularity amongst people of all age groups. Extra points if they’re under two minutes. In September 2016, TikTok started its operation and had become one of the most downloaded apps in 2020. “Available in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, and Punjabi, the beauty of the app lies in the fact that anyone with a basic smartphone and an internet connection can make a short music video of their own.”Īccording to a report by Zinnov, a Bengaluru-based management and strategy consulting firm, Indians prefer watching video over text-based content, and of those videos, short ones are preferable. Chinese video sharing platform TikTok has again topped list as the world's most downloaded app in the month of October, 2021, TikTok app downloads were more than 57 million, Sensor. The app has seen more than 3.5 billion downloads worldwide. Best of 2020 How TikTok changed the world in 2020 (Image credit: Getty Images) By Sophia Smith Galer 17th December 2020 The oft-maligned, most downloaded app of the year changed comedy. The short-form video sharing app TikTok was the most downloaded app worldwide in first three months of 2022, according to a report from Sensor Tower. “ offers Indians an inexpensive platform to showcase their singing, dancing, and acting talents to a wider audience, which goes beyond family members and friends,” writes Priyali Prakash in Quartz. TikTok is one of the world’s most popular social media apps and is available in more than 150 markets and more than 35 languages. India’s entertainment industry is dominated by Bollywood movies that are well known for including song and dance. It makes sense that the app has been thriving in India, where lip-syncing is something of a national trend. The company repeatedly denied the allegations.TikTok began as a platform to create and share short lip-sync videos, and that is still at the core of a lot of TikTok content today. The Trump administration claimed that TikTok posed a national security risk as the Chinese government had access to its user data. Last year, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order to ban new downloads of the TikTok app in the US. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant accounted for the rest of the top five with Facebook’s flagship app as well as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all making an appearance. TikTok’s continued popularity emerged even after former US President Donald Trump tried to ban it in America.įacebook-owned apps have held the top spot since the survey started in 2018 and the company still dominated the chart. In its home country, TikTok’s owner ByteDance also holds the top spot with the Chinese language video app Douyin.

The Chinese video-sharing platform is the only app not owned by Facebook to make the global top five of downloads. TikTok was the world’s most downloaded app in 2020 as it took the top spot from Facebook Messenger, according to digital analytics company App Annie.

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