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TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-live-podcast-demi-lovato-1236605034/

TikTok Announces Live Podcast Series, Launching With Demi Lovato
TikTok is launching a live podcast series called 'TikTok in the Mix' that premieres on Thursday with special guest Demi Lovato.

TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-live-podcast-demi-lovato-1236605034/

TikTok Announces Live Podcast Series, Launching With Demi Lovato
TikTok is launching a live podcast series called 'TikTok in the Mix' that premieres on Thursday with special guest Demi Lovato.

Se forem os alemães a fazê-lo, podemos chamar-lhe até Volkswagen.
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/115180248501369174

TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/tiktok-announces-shared-feed-and…

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features
TikTok just announced new social elements for the app. There's now a shared feed and a collections feature.

Social-Media-Verbot in Australien tritt in Kraft: Jugendliche verlieren Accounts
Ab Mittwoch müssen TikTok, Instagram & Co. australische Nutzer unter 16 Jahren sperren. Die Plattformen setzen auf Gesichtserkennung – mit Problemen.

Surely the NCF should be doing this work?
https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/10/09/news/dsit-tests-ability-of-ai-models-to-coordinate-cyberattacks/

DSIT tests ability of AI models to coordinate cyberattacks
Science and innovation agency has this year worked with a Silicon Valley policy and research outfit as part of an initiative designed to assess automated tools’ success in finding vulnerabilities Government’s tech department has recently conducted specialised tests designed to determine the e

TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/tiktok-announces-shared-feed-and…

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features
TikTok just announced new social elements for the app. There's now a shared feed and a collections feature.

TikTok Shop sold an estimated $19B worth of products globally in Q3, with US sales up 125% compared to Q2, reaching eBay's scale two years after its US launch (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-shop-sales-global-ecommerce/

TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay
TikTok’s ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.

Instacart integrates its retail data with TikTok Ads Manager, letting consumer packaged goods advertisers target audiences and measure conversions within TikTok (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/instacart-tiktok-ads-manager-463072

Instacart brings retail media targeting to TikTok Ads Manager
The partnership lets CPG advertisers use Instacart’s retail data to target high-intent shoppers and track purchases directly within TikTok.

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.