TikTok introduces paywalled content, with videos up to 20 minutes long
On Tuesday, TikTok announced an exciting new monetizing avenue for creators on the social media app. The new “kid on the block” is called Series, a feature allowing selecting creators to share up to 20-minute videos made available behind a paywall for followers to purchase. Creators can include up to 80 videos per “Series” and set their rates from $1 to $190. Followers can then buy access from the creator’s profile page or using direct in-video links, according to a TikTok spokesperson.
In the past, users have only been able to share 10-minute, 3-minute, 1-minute, or 15-second videos on the social media platform.
TikTok has turned up the heat with competitor platforms like YouTube with its latest long-form video option, even though competition has existed between TikTok and YouTube. YouTube introduced a natural alternative in August 2021 to TikTok with its YouTube shorts.
Other companies that tried to counter TikTok’s meteoric rise in the U.S. was Snap and Meta, who also introduced short video features. However, that didn’t stop TikTok from gaining popularity on the social front.
Although TikTok has stated that the Series option will only be available to a select group of creators for now. There is no need for disappointment, as there is talk about opening applications for other creators to enroll in the coming months.
There seem to be data privacy concerns doing rounds due to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance which is privately held and based in China.
We have heard many rumors about the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voting to advance legislation that would give President Joe Biden the authority to ban TikTok. Word on the ground is that on Tuesday afternoon Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. are set to introduce a new bipartisan bill.
What will this mean for local TikTok users? The new bill will empower the Secretary of Commerce to act against some foreign tech companies, including ByteDance. I guess we will have to wait and see the outcome, but in the meantime, there are prospects for TikTok creators to monetize their videos for more than just pennies!
Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.