TikTok News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Cuttable raises $20M Series A led by Airtree Ventures to build Meta and TikTok ads from brands’ existing photos and videos
TikTok Shop starts its Black Friday campaign on November 11, its first holiday season with Best Buy, Ulta Beauty and Sephora
TikTok reverses its ad ban on the “Musk” documentary two days later, calling the suspension of Bleecker Street’s account an error
TikTok employees warned executives about minors in sexual Live streams and age-check loopholes, court depositions show
One in five US adults regularly gets news on TikTok, flat from 2025 but up from 3% in 2020, according to Pew Research Center
Australia’s communications minister expects eSafety to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube over breaches of the under-16 ban
TikTok permanently suspends the ad account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary over political content as the film expands
Target brings TikTok’s top-selling sleep brand Mellow Sleep to 550 stores as its home sales fall for a third straight year
ByteDance nears a deal to buy custom MediaTek AI chips for its data centers as US export curbs keep Nvidia’s best chips out
TikTok Shop UK auto-enrolls sellers in an ad program that advertises their unpromoted products and reinvests every sale in ads
TikTok teams with creator studio MADE BY US to co-produce scripted micro-series starring its own creators for TikTok and PineDrama
TikTok Shop expects bigger holiday beauty sales and more brand-hosted livestreams as category growth slows to 39% in Q3
TikTok CEO Shou Chew and Microsoft’s Judson Althoff warn against AI hype, saying people still outdo models at key creative work
Meta bans ads from ByteDance and anyone linking to TikTok
TikTok unveils one-click checkout and an AI shopping assistant
#299 – TikTok Goes Agentic, Personal Agent Protocol, & Amazon Says You Have No Friends
TikTok names Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing its first European BookTok Bestseller of the Year, as it claims 50M BookTok books sold
Meta bans ads from ByteDance and from any advertiser linking to TikTok across its apps in the US and six other countries
Sonilo, an AI audio startup from former TikTok leaders, raises $11M led by B Capital to generate soundtracks that match video
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