Underneath the E.U.’s new Digital Providers Act (DSA) rules, giant on-line platforms, together with the most important social apps, now want to offer common updates on their energetic customers within the E.U. area, together with varied different key transparency updates.

Which TikTok reported this week, offering new insights into how many individuals are utilizing the app in European nations, which may help in your content material planning.

You may take a look at TikTok’s full DSA Transparency Report right here (and due to Xavier Degraux for the heads up on the replace), however on this publish, we’ll dig into the information, and share among the key notes.

The complete report outlines TikTok’s approaches to content material moderation and knowledge requests, and consists of insights into the precise violations that TikTok has needed to motion, with “Delicate & Mature Themes” being by far the most important driver of removals within the app, with virtually 2x extra studies than the following most reported component (“Regulated Items & Business Actions”) .

There’s additionally a full rely of the quantity of moderation workers TikTok has working within the E.U. (6,125), and an outline of the typical time that it’s taking TikTok’s group to reply to studies and appeals.

However this can be essentially the most fascinating component, in a broader contextual sense:

As you possibly can see on this picture, TikTok has offered a full overview of its present viewers within the E.U., with a breakdown of customers by area.

Within the E.U., TikTok at the moment sees essentially the most energetic utilization in France, with 21.4 million customers. Germany has 20.9 million MAU, whereas Italy has 19.7 million customers.

The chart gives some fascinating perspective on TikTok’s relative development, and the place it’s producing essentially the most curiosity.

And once you additionally think about that TikTok has 150 million customers in America (as TikTok reported again in March), that implies that 285.9 million TikTok customers are within the U.S. and E.U. areas.

Which, contemplating that TikTok has a billion customers, implies that there are so much in different nations.

TikTok reportedly additionally has round 100 million customers in Indonesia, 83 million customers in Brazil, and 55 million in Russia. The opposite 500 million or so can be unfold throughout a number of smaller markets, however the figures do counsel that TikTok is unlikely to have exceeded a billion customers at this level.

Some analysts had predicted that TikTok would exceed 1.5 billion customers final yr, however based mostly on these numbers, it’s unlikely to have come near this as but.

Which is fascinating in itself, in that TikTok’s meteoric development could have slowed, or may have even been decreased as a consequence of studies of the corporate doubtlessly sharing person knowledge with the Chinese language Authorities, which has additionally seen it banned, in various capability, and in varied areas consequently.

Certainly, the numbers may point out that TikTok now truly has fewer than a billion customers, a milestone that it first reached two years again. Regardless of its big recognition, it might be that TikTok’s utilization has declined, which is one thing to look at shifting ahead.

After all, that is all relative, and the precise complete attain of an app isn’t instantly related to most entrepreneurs, who solely actually need to know if their audience is energetic within the app. And the above breakdown may present extra perception on that, which may assist in your strategic planning.

Or it might be simply be a focal point, however both manner, it’s beneficial knowledge to have, which is a bonus of the brand new DSA reporting course of.