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TikTok Owner ByteDance’s Annual Revenue Jumps to $34.3 Billion

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TikTok Owner ByteDance’s Annual Revenue Jumps to $34.3 Billion

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Kuaishou’s market capitalization was recently about $103 billion, and the company reported 2020 revenues equivalent to about $9.2 billion.</p>\n<p>In China, TikTok is widely viewed as China’s most successful mobile internet export. The wildly popular short-video app has been downloaded more than 240 million times in the U.S., with teenagers and adults alike posting video clips of themselves lip syncing, dancing and even dishing out financial advice.</p>\n<p>ByteDance’s revenues from TikTok come primarily from advertising. The company is also expanding beyond social media into areas such as gaming and e-commerce.</p>\n<p>While ByteDance didn’t break down its 1.9 billion monthly active users by app, its scale rivals that of&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;YouTube, which reiterated in April that it had more than 2 billion users that log into its site to watch videos. 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Startups that have raised outside funds often have to take these noncash charges as their valuations rise, if they prepare results in line with International Financial Reporting Standards.\nByteDance, which was started in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, has raised billions of dollars from global investors including KKR & Co., Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic. The company was valued at $180 billion in late 2020 after a fundraising round that included Fidelity Investments and some of its existing shareholders.\nByteDance is considering listing in Hong Kong or New York, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company hasn’t mapped out any timeline for an initial public offering.\nEarly this year one of ByteDance’s smaller domestic rivals, short-video app operator Kuaishou Technology,listed in Hong Kong after raising $5.4 billion. Kuaishou’s market capitalization was recently about $103 billion, and the company reported 2020 revenues equivalent to about $9.2 billion.\nIn China, TikTok is widely viewed as China’s most successful mobile internet export. The wildly popular short-video app has been downloaded more than 240 million times in the U.S., with teenagers and adults alike posting video clips of themselves lip syncing, dancing and even dishing out financial advice.\nByteDance’s revenues from TikTok come primarily from advertising. The company is also expanding beyond social media into areas such as gaming and e-commerce.\nWhile ByteDance didn’t break down its 1.9 billion monthly active users by app, its scale rivals that of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, which reiterated in April that it had more than 2 billion users that log into its site to watch videos. 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