Updated November 2019



In France, 45.7% of children under 13 years of age report using TikTok...


In 2016, the Bytedance start-up launches TikTok (called Douyin in Chinese), an app that allows to create 15-second videos : the user chooses a song and then films himself. In 2017, ByteDance buys back Musical.ly, a similar, precursor application created in 2014.

On TikTok, you can post videos in playback (lip - sync up to 60 seconds), film, edit and share your own clips but also add filters, stickers, 3D masks (Snapchat style). We meet there and we measure ourselves through hashtags.

In August 2018, the application merged and replaced Musical.Ly, while preserving all accounts and contents.


The following figures concern only TikTok and not Douyin, its Chinese version.


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TikTok in the world
Active users and downloads of TikTok
TikTok claims 800 million monthly active users worldwide since January 2019 (700 million in June 218).



The application has already been downloaded 1.27 billion times worldwide (1). Since June 2018, the number of downloads has doubled. It is the fourth most downloaded app (outside of the games) in 2018, behind WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook, on the App Store and Google Play. And the first app iOS in the first half of 2018. 

TikTok reached 56.7 million new downloads in June 2019 (down 7% compared to 2018 however).


In January 2019, 43% of these new downloads of TikTok were located in India, and 9% in the United States.

In the third quarter of 2019, TikTok is the second most downloaded application in the world with more than 176 million new installations, behind WhatsApp (184 million) (1).

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