{"id":34540,"date":"2023-12-12T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/tiktok-makes-history-as-first-non-gaming-app-to-reach-10b-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:10:43","slug":"tiktok-makes-history-as-first-non-gaming-app-to-reach-10b-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/tiktok-makes-history-as-first-non-gaming-app-to-reach-10b-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok makes history as first non-gaming app to reach $10B | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>After reaching 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, TikTok has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the record of such consumer spending resided with gaming apps such as Candy Crush Saga from King\/Activision Blizzard, Tencent\u2019s Honor of Kings, XFLAG\/Mixi\u2019s Monster Strike and Supercell\u2019s Clash of Clans.<\/p>\n<p>As per the reports of data.ai, TikTok entered 2023 with more than $6.2 billion in consumer spending already and then added another $3.8 billion throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2449769\/1\">Epic Games wins antitrust case against Google over Play app store<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reported <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/11\/tiktok-becomes-first-non-game-app-to-reach-10b-in-consumer-spending\/#:~:text=The%20app%2C%20which%20reached%201,app%20intelligence%20provider%20data.ai.\">statistics<\/a> exclusively account for TikTok&#8217;s revenue generated through consumer purchases on iOS and Google Play platforms. This calculation does not include third-party Android application stores in China, hence the total spending could be even higher.<\/p>\n<p>The spending comes from TikTok\u2019s in-app purchases of \u201ccoins\u201d which are a virtual currency that users can spend on gifts for creators on the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reaching 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, TikTok has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending. Previously, the record of such consumer spending resided with gaming apps such as Candy Crush Saga from King\/Activision Blizzard, Tencent\u2019s Honor of Kings, XFLAG\/Mixi\u2019s Monster Strike and Supercell\u2019s Clash of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/tiktok1697105922-0\/tiktok1697105922-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}