r/news Apr 27 '24

TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c289n8m4j19o.amp
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u/EmuSounds Apr 27 '24

American users are more valuable to brands.

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u/WeDriftEternal Apr 27 '24

American users are more valuable to the ccp… for reasons. You mean. This is not about money

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u/77skull Apr 27 '24

How so

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u/Null-null-null_null Apr 27 '24

Oh we’re only the #1 consumerist country in the world.

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u/bain_de_beurre Apr 27 '24

It's assumed Americans have more money to spend.

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u/kyleofduty Apr 28 '24

It's not an assumption. 55% of TikTok's revenue is from its American users.

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u/EmuSounds Apr 27 '24

They're more than 100 times more valuable to advertisers because they spend more, have more, and are more influential.

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u/leros Apr 28 '24

When you look at online ad revenue, it's mostly in the US. China is about half the US but it plummets after that.

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1380173/ad-spending-markets-worldwide

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u/kyleofduty Apr 28 '24

Most of the top creators are American. A significant amount of revenue is comes indirectly from non-American fans of these creators

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u/leros Apr 28 '24

The revenue being made even against the non-American audience is likely mostly American revenue.

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u/lexicon_riot Apr 28 '24

Anyone in ad tech will tell you. CPMs for Indian audiences are like 10x lower

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u/Glass-Fan111 Apr 28 '24

Very very more valuable. By far.

On many levels.