In information that can possible come as no shock, TikTok was as soon as once more probably the most downloaded app in July, based on the most recent knowledge from app analytics platform Sensor Tower.

That should not be stunning, as a result of TikTok has been atop the month-to-month obtain charts for the previous yr and a half, with the one two exceptions being November final yr, when WhatsApp briefly re-took the highest spot, and January this yr, when Telegram noticed a sudden obtain surge (because of WhatsApp’s controversial knowledge privateness replace).

As defined by Sensor Tower:

“TikTok was probably the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for July 2021 with greater than 63 million installs. The international locations with the most important quantity intalls had been from Douyin in China at 15%, adopted by america at 9%.”

So regardless of its important market presence, TikTok remains to be gaining customers in its main, established markets, it isn’t solely getting consideration in new areas the place it is simply been launched. 

Which bodes nicely for the platform’s ongoing progress, and its monetization potential – as a result of whereas viewers progress in itself is a key success issue, it typically takes time for customers in new areas to develop into paying customers in any kind. If TikTok remains to be rising in areas the place it is already constructed an viewers, that factors to expanded potential on each fronts because it appears to additional increase its international presence.

When you ever end up questioning why Fb and Snapchat and YouTube hold making an attempt to push their very own TikTok clone functionalities, this is the reason. TikTok will not be solely now a significant platform, and a major challenger within the social media house, it is also nonetheless rising at a quicker fee than any of its opponents. That places all of them beneath risk, so whereas it is logical, on one hand, for them to hunt to retain person engagement by aligning with the quick video development, given that every platform is ready to cater to such, in several methods, primarily based on their current content material features, these duplicate add-ons may also be considered as a measure of self-preservation.

The obvious instance right here is Fb’s personal rise, which noticed it supersede MySpace because the social media platform of selection. That shift began amongst youthful customers, with Fb changing into the brand new development, which then permeated to broader teams, older customers, manufacturers, and many others.

Fb grew to become the place to be after first taking seed with youthful person teams, which is so much like TikTok proper now – and whereas TikTok would not provide the identical useful choices that Fb does, and Fb itself is now so large that it could be troublesome to upend it fully, the chance is obvious. TikTok, which is on monitor to achieve a billion customers in 2021, and continues so as to add new features like in-stream procuring, Tales and expanded reside broadcasts, is trying an increasing number of like a real challenger, which may severely affect utilization of Fb’s apps over time, and should ultimately make it the prime social community of selection, over Fb or Instagram.

It is acquired a protracted option to go, and as you possibly can see, Fb’s apps nonetheless dominate the general high 10 checklist, taking over 4 of the highest 5 spots. However the TikTok replication effort makes excellent sense when considered from this angle.

Amongst different app traits, video enhancing app CapCut, which permits customers to create movies to submit in different apps, and can be owned by TikTok’s guardian firm ByteDance, stays within the high 10, whereas Chinese language procuring platform TaoBao has additionally returned to the charts.

However the principle level of notice stays TikTok, and its enduring recognition. Now you realize why Fb sought to stoke fears about Chinese language monitoring by way of the app with US Senators in 2019, an angle that it is little doubt nonetheless working behind the scenes, within the hopes that it’d get shut down within the US.

As a result of proper now, it would not appear like a lot else goes to decelerate its progress and enlargement world wide.