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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.

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.

Männens motsvarighet till "hormonell obalans". Det finns mycket påhitt kring hormoner idag.
Social media misinformation driving men to seek unneeded NHS testosterone therapy, doctors say https://www.theguardian.com/so…

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.

Merch-Shop ist da. Ich habe bestellt, also erzähl ich es euch nun 😜
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Dec. 27 – 28, 2025

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.

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 says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account (Matt Slater/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783979/2025/11/06/…

English National League game to be streamed live on TikTok in global first
The fixture between arguably the two biggest teams outside the EFL will be streamed live, free of charge, on DAZN's TikTok channel.

Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googl…

Google’s $2.7 Billion AI Hire Tests Company’s Speech Limits With Inflammatory Posts
This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and nonbinary colleagues on International Transgender Day of Visibility. “I do not believe that humans ...