According to reports, TikTok has overtaken YouTube as the most popular app in the US

Short video-making platform TikTok's users now spend more time each month looking content than YouTube customers, says a new report.

According to app analytics company App Annie, inside the US, TikTok first overtook YouTube in August ultimate year and as of June 2021, its users watched over 24 hours of content in keeping with month, as compared with 22 hours and 40 minutes on YouTube.

In the United Kingdom the distinction is even starker as TikTok overtook YouTube in May closing yr and customers there now reportedly watch almost 26 hours of content material a month, compared to less than sixteen on YouTube, reviews The Verge.

The figures handiest consist of viewership on Android phones, but, so won't be consultant of mobile customers as an entire, the file said.

But caveats aside, they display the extent of TikTok's meteoric upward thrust over just a few quick years, and are even more dazzling given the 3-minute maximum of most of its films, in comparison to the ten-minute format desired by using many YouTube's, it introduced.

Not to say the reality that for a lot of 2020, TikTok confronted continued threats that it might be banned in the US amidst chaotic negotiations.

YouTube remains ahead in time spent ordinary, absolute confidence due to its billion users in comparison to TikTok's roughly seven hundred million, BBC News notes.

Again, apart from iOS users and customers of the app renamed Douyin in China, YouTube continues to be number one in phrases of time spent on Android phones amongst "Social and Entertainment Apps" as of the primary half of of this year, with TikTok in at variety 5 in the back of three Facebook apps -- Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

Users also spend extra cash on YouTube than TikTok throughout each iOS and Android worldwide (aside from Android users in China), in step with App Annie's records.

Last 12 months, the Indian government stated it became banning fifty nine apps advanced by means of Chinese companies, which include ByteDance's TikTok over issues that those apps had been engaging in activities that threatened countrywide security.