TikTok News & Updates
Last updated October 26, 2026
TikTok partners with Vistar Media to expand Out of Phone ad campaigns to over 1M digital out-of-home placements
TikTok launches “Campus Hub” with college group chats and personalized feeds for verified students
TikTok Shop drives $4.9B in Q1 U.S. sales as Ralph Lauren, Olaplex and Ulta Beauty launch storefronts
TikTok Shop adds “fine art” category and launches with live sale by influencer artist Sophie Tea
Australia proposes a 2.25% revenue levy on Google, Meta, and TikTok unless they pay local news publishers for content
China is restricting top AI firms including Moonshot, StepFun, and ByteDance from accepting U.S. investment without government approval
TikTok expanded IAS and Zefr brand safety tools to more ad formats while DoubleVerify earned its first video viewability accreditation
Visa and TikTok launched a co-branded debit card in the UK giving creators faster access to earnings from TikTok Live gifts and diamonds
Netflix is launching a TikTok-style vertical video feed this month and expanding its use of AI for content recommendations and ad formats
QVC Group is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as TikTok Shop, Shein, and Temu erode the TV shopping model it pioneered
TikTok rival Triller reported $0 in media revenue in 2025 while its app won’t load videos and auditors question its survival
YouTube, TikTok, and Meta are pushing creators beyond their home platforms but haven’t built the systems to support them
RedNote is opening U.S. offices and launching a shopping portal a year after its viral TikTok refugee moment faded
TikTok Shop is preparing to launch in Poland, the Netherlands, and Belgium based on job listings and seller page infrastructure
Elon Musk appears to have quietly joined TikTok and Instagram ahead of SpaceX’s IPO
Google hires TikTok’s former North America ads lead Khartoon Weiss as VP of US mid-market sales and commerce
TikTok integrates ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 video generation model into its Symphony ad creation toolkit
TikTok and the International Chamber of Commerce launch Digital Commerce Labs to train small businesses across 10 emerging markets
An Illinois man received 150+ unwanted TikTok Shop return packages after a scammer used his address as a fake return address
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