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by TMWNN·6y ago·view on hn ↗
The US is 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Most of TikTok's most-followed users are American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a...). Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are probably another 5% of revenue. The UK may be not included because TikTok has stated that it wants to establish its global headquarters there.

There has been talk that Microsoft is interested in buying all of TikTok worldwide (TikTok isn't available in China; ByteDance has a separate, similar business there), which would be easier technically because TikTok's operations and algorithms would not need to be divided. India was TikTok's largest userbase until the recent ban; presumably a non Chinese-owned TikTok could quickly reopen there.

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Does TikTok actually make any revenue itself yet? I know its top users are making millions from advertising stuff, but they don't seem to have any ads in the platform itself yet?
ByteDance is said to be pulling close to 17B/year, and they have 3 main apps - Toutiao (Chinese news app), Douyin (Chinese TikTok), and of course TikTok.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikevorhaus/2020/05/27/bytedanc...

Yes they insert ads into your feed the same as IG or FB.
Really? I see them on FB/Instagram, but I've never seen one on TikTok.
Did you just starting to use TikTok? Many platforms show less ads to new users, in order to not scare them away and it's not until you've used it for a longer period of time that they ramp up how many ads you're seeing. Also different profiles gets different amount of ads.
For one week now I have been getting the same weird ads for a boyfriend tracker and another for Spotify.