Douyinĭouyin was launched by ByteDance in Beijing, China in September 2016, originally under the name A.me, before rebranding to Douyin ( 抖音) in December 2016. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing. Morning Consult named TikTok the third-fastest growing brand of 2020, after Zoom and Peacock. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.
TikTok, and its Chinese counterpart Douyin ( Chinese: 抖音 pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance.