TikTok surpasses YouTube in the US and the UK on Android

As of May 2021, TikTok surpassed YouTube in both the US and the UK for average time spent per user, per month on Android - US-based TikTok users on Android devices spent an average of 24.5 hours a month on the platform, compared to 22 hours per user, per month on YouTube; in the UK, TikTok users were spending 26 hours a month on the platform, while UK YouTube users were spending just 16 per month. As of October 2020, the TikTok app was reaching 732 million monthly active users globally, whereas YouTube had than 2 billion logged-in users playing music on its service every month, the MBW reports. TikTok announced that it was rolling out the option for its users to create videos of up to three minutes in length – up from what was previously 60 seconds.