# TikTok ## TL;DR ## Aggregate > **TikTok**, and its Chinese counterpart Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Morning Consult named TikTok the third-fastest growing brand of 2020, after Zoom and Peacock. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing [google](Google.md).com. > - *from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok)* # Tags ---- - **First Indexed:** 06-04-2023 - 4:04 pm - **Last Updated:** \<\%\+ tp.file.last_modified_date("MM-DD-YYYY - h:mm a")\%\>