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A.me
Begining as A.me -
Douyin
Rebranded to Douyin (抖音) -
TikTok
TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017 -
Acquired Musical.ly
On 9 November 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, spent up to US$1 billion to purchase musical.ly -
Addiction-reduction feature
In April 2018, an addiction-reduction feature was added to Douyin. This encouraged users to take a break every 90 minutes. Later in 2018, the feature was rolled out to the TikTok app -
Most downloaded app
On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked No. 1 among free app downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. TikTok has been made available in over 150 markets, and in 75 languages -
One billion downloads globaly
February 2019, TikTok, together with Douyin, hit one billion downloads globally, excluding Android installs in China. -
NFL partnership
On 3 September 2019, TikTok and the US National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership -
Partnership with Oracle
In September 2020, a deal was confirmed between ByteDance and Oracle in which the latter will serve as a partner to provide cloud hosting -
Licensing deal with Sony
In November 2020, TikTok signed a licensing deal with Sony Music -
Banned in Indonesia and Bangladesh
TikTok has been intermittently blocked in countries including Indonesia and Bangladesh on different bases -
Data transfer class action lawsuit
In July 2020, twenty lawsuits against TikTok were merged into a single class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois -
Banned in India
TikTok was banned completely in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 29 June 2020, along with 223 other Chinese apps -
Attempted banned in USA
On 6 August 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive order 13942 which would ban TikTok transactions in 45 days if it is not sold by ByteDance -
Banned in Pakistan
On October 11, 2020, Pakistan became the next country to ban the social media platform after not complying with issues regarding the content on the platform brought up by their government -
Licensing deal with Warner Music Group
In January 2021, Warner Music Group signed a licensing deal with TikTok