TikTok

TikTok is video-based social media site with a growing ecommerce business, TikTok Shop. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about TikTok and the online retail sector.

Latest news and insight on TikTok from Retail-Week.com

Analysis
TikTok’s future remains in limbo – if a deal to save it falls through, how could UK retail be impacted?
2025-01-16T16:39:00+00:00By Phoebe Hennell
While TikTok and its Chinese-based owner ByteDance has been given a stay of execution by incoming American president Donald Trump, the hugely successful social media app is still facing an uncertain future. How could a potential ban affect UK retailers and social commerce brands who have made TikTok their home?
News
TikTok Shop has achieved its highest ever sales over Black Friday
2024-12-05T10:00:00+00:00By Megan Robinson
Exclusive: TikTok Shop has revealed it achieved “record-breaking” sales over Black Friday, making it the platform’s biggest ever UK sales event to date, Retail Week can reveal.
Opinion
‘Retailers who miss the shift in customer interactions are likely to face an existential risk’
2024-11-21T06:30:00+00:00By Sarah Lambert
Shoppers are taking inspiration and guidance from a much wider range of sources than their preferred retailer, observes Accenture Song’s Sarah Lambert. That means retailers need to reach customers in new ways across new formats

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News

TikTok set for ‘record-breaking’ Christmas driven by surge live shopping

2024-11-20T10:31:00+00:00By Megan Robinson

TikTok has forecast that this Christmas will be “record-breaking” and mark its biggest moment in retail due to an “unprecedented surge” in live shopping sessions.

Video

John Lewis store takes starring role in ‘emotional’ 2024 Christmas ad

2024-11-14T07:04:00+00:00By Chloe Mills

John Lewis has unveiled its highly awaited 2024 Christmas advert which puts its stores at the heart of “emotional” and “magical” journey of Christmas shopping.

Secondhand tech: Should more retailers cash in on the opportunity?
2024-10-01T15:13:00+01:00By Megan Robinson
TikTok Shop is launching its first week-long Sales event in the UK
2024-09-23T06:00:00+01:00By Megan Robinson
Q&A: Former NOTHS exec Ella d’Amato on disrupting social commerce with her new platform
2024-08-20T15:15:00+01:00By Ritika Bhoora
Is Pinterest for business the next big disruptor in social ecommerce after TikTok and Instagram Shop?
2024-08-15T16:04:00+01:00By Ritika Bhoora

Exclusive: TikTok Shop is increasing seller fees in drive to be ‘marketplace of the future’
2024-08-02T13:00:00+01:00By Megan Robinson
TikTok’s new ‘£1Million Club’ helps supercharge new businesses
2024-07-08T16:32:00+01:00By Megan Robinson
Retail sales via social media set to double in four years
2024-06-28T06:38:00+01:00By Megan Robinson
Advertise, entertain, sell: The many ways TikTok is providing opportunities for retailers
2024-06-05T12:41:00+01:00By Megan Robinson

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