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February 17, 2020 Digital Activities
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Strategy in the News
Headline: TikTok Wants to Grow Up, but Finds It Tough to Keep Kids Out
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-wants-to-grow-up-but-finds-it-tough-to-keep-kids-out-11581858006
Product Life Cycle Analysis for TikTok: ByteDance Inc. owns a portfolio of mobile applications but we are going
to focus on TikTok for the purpose of this discussion. In my opinion, TikTok falls in the maturity stage as mobile
applications have a very quick product cycle and since TikTok was launched in 2017, they have witnessed rapid
growth and have reached a stage of sustained growth rate over the past three years. The above WSJ article
discusses how TikTok is very popular amongst children below 13 years of age and ByteDance initially extended
its S-curve by acquiring musical.ly in late 2017. As discussed in the article, ByteDance is looking to extend its
initial S-curve again by marketing heavily towards an older generation.
STEEP Analysis for TikTok: ByteDance Inc. needs to consider each of the STEEP factor during the decision-making
process. However, of the five factors, Sociocultural, political/legal, and technological trends directly affect
TikTok’s business model. Since over 70% of children under 13-year old with smartphones use TikTok, it is
important for TikTok to focus on sociocultural trends that affect use of entertainment and social media
applications. In 2019, ByteDance ended up paying $5.7 million to the FTC to settle a lawsuit that allegedly
blamed them for collecting data of users under 13-years of age. They also need to target an older generation to
ensure that they don’t fall under legal scrutiny again.
Porter’s Five Forces Analysis for TikTok: ByteDance Inc. faces high bargaining power of buyers and high level of
threat from rivals and new entrants. There are thousands of existing and emerging companies that build
entertainment and media applications like TikTok and as the number of applications continues to grow, users
will always have a choice, and this also gives them high bargaining power. It makes sense for TikTok to focus on
an older generation to stabilize their revenue streams alongside complying with legal regulations.

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J375 (Hybrid) February 17, 2020 Digital Activities 1. Strategy in the News Headline: “TikTok Wants to Grow Up, but Finds It Tough to Keep Kids Out” Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-wants-to-grow-up-but-finds-it-tough-to-keep-kids-out-11581858006 Product Life Cycle Analysis for TikTok: ByteDance Inc. owns a portfolio of mobile applications but we are going to focus on TikTok for the purpose of this discussion. In my opinion, TikTok falls in the maturity stage as mobile applications have a very quick product cycle and since TikTok was launched in 2017, they have witnessed rapid grow ...
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