Even as marketers continue to scrape dollars back wherever they can, whether that be from TV or Facebook, they can’t stop pouring money into the short-form video app.
January 17, 2023

Ad spending on TikTok defies advertising slowdown

Even as marketers continue to scrape dollars back wherever they can, they can't stop pouring money into TikTok.

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