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Toutiao has loads of short video content, it's not really a text-dominated app. It launched its video channel in mid-2015.



By then it already had 25m DAU and next year its revenue was 1b already. So yes it's content agnostic, but it started and rapidly grew as a text based aggregator with a strong recommendation system. From what I heard, TikTok's recommendation system is based on that and that was used to explain its ballistic growth.




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