🆚 TikTok vs. YouTube
- 📈 YouTube is much more popular than TikTok.
- 🌎 YouTube is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 TikTok is more popular in Turkmenistan.
TikTok
YouTubeType
About
TikTok is a Chinese social media platform focused on short-form videos that combines content creation, recommendation-driven discovery, and social interaction in a mobile-first interface.
It allows users to record and edit videos with filters, effects, music, and AI-powered tools, broadcast live streams, browse personalized "For You" feeds driven by recommendation algorithms, interact through comments and direct messages, and sell products through integrated TikTok Shop e-commerce features.
YouTube is the world's largest online video platform and social media service owned by Google that lets users watch, comment on, and upload videos, as well as subscribe to channels.
It supports high-resolution video hosting up to 8K, live streaming with real-time chat and monetization tools, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts for vertical videos, customizable playlists, subtitles, and paid channel memberships.
Headquarters
Pricing
(ad-free non-music videos)$8.99
(ad-free, offline videos, and background play)
(5 members)$26.99/month
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.