Who owns TikTok and when was it created? Flickr: Ivan RadicTikTok has skyrocketed and become one of the world\u2019s biggest social media platforms in just a few years. But who owns the app, and when was it created? Here\u2019s everything you need to know. Within the space of a couple of years, TikTok has become the most popular social media platform out there, with millions of daily users and a huge selection of viral content. The app has helped launch the careers of people like Charli D\u2019Amelio and Addison Rae, and its viral power has tempted plenty of other people to make accounts and try to grow a following of their own. As TikTok has become a staple in millions of people\u2019s everyday lives, it\u2019s hard to imagine life without it. So when was the app created and who owns it? Here\u2019s everything you need to know. Who owns TikTok? TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance and is available in more than 150 countries. It was founded by the company\u2019s former CEO, Zhang Yiming, who created the company in 2012 from his apartment in Beijing, China. In 2014, the app Musical.ly \u2014 which had similar features to the future TikTok app \u2014 was launched in China. By 2017, Musical.ly was one of the most popular apps in the world and was purchased by ByteDance for about $1 billion. In 2016, ByteDance launched Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. The following year, the company also launched TikTok to cater to a more global audience. In 2018, the company merged TikTok with Musical.ly to drastically expand its user base and gave it access to a larger pool of users and content creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who owns TikTok and when was it created? Flickr: Ivan RadicTikTok has skyrocketed and become one of the world\u2019s biggest social media platforms in just a few years. But who owns the app, and when was it created? Here\u2019s everything you need to know. Within the space of a couple of years, TikTok has become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}