TikTok News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
TikTok’s millennial optimism trend has Gen Z romanticizing an era of fedoras, Polaroids and fixie bikes they never lived through
Euka raises a $5M seed round and extends its creator affiliate tooling from TikTok Shop to Instagram, with YouTube next
ByteDance raises $290 million for Anew Labs, the AI drug discovery unit it spun out in June, at a $1.5 billion valuation
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming passes Gautam Adani as Asia’s richest person after a $12B markup to his ByteDance stake
TikTok Shop says livestreams produce 94% of its US luxury resale revenue as the category’s GMV climbs 400% year over year
ByteDance’s first-half profit slips to $20B on AI spending even as TikTok helps push its revenue up about 30% to $120B
TikTok Shop buyer who got the wrong $3 shirt says trying it on made him “discombobulated” and asks on video if he was laced
ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion unsecured loan from nearly 30 banks after lender demand pushed it past a $20 billion target
TikTok is adding voice comments, creator polls, photo carousels, and Live Photos to comment sections in a global rollout
TikTok backs out of a House Select Committee on China roundtable on its algorithm and Chinese access to Americans’ data
NFL renews its TikTok deal with a multi-year partnership adding league hubs, a fan hub, and ad inventory around club accounts
Sephora launches on TikTok Shop September 19 with a monthly Drop Shop that puts partner brand products on the platform first
TikTok reports 189 million monthly users in the EU while its human moderation staff there has shrunk 41% since October 2024
TikTok Shop’s live sales more than double in the first half of 2026 as US livestream shopping heads toward $20 billion this year
Meta is taking its fight to bring down YouTube and TikTok to traditional media with full-page newspaper ads
Meta runs full-page newspaper ads pressing TikTok and YouTube to adopt the teen safety limits it agreed to in its settlement
TikTok adds six media partners to its Out of Phone program, extending creator content onto screens in five European markets
Teen TikTok use in Australia has returned to within a point of where it sat before the world’s first under-16 social media ban
TikTok adds an optional setting that lets users name someone to manage their profile after they die or have it deleted
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