‘A world of opportunity’: TikTok talks music marketing

IQ speaks to Farhad Zand, head of music partnerships for London-based TikTok Europe, about the short-video social platform's offering for concert marketers

Blanco Brown, whose song ‘The Git Up’ was popularised on TikTok, visited the company's London office

With an estimated 500 million monthly users – the majority under 30, and many of them teenagers – short-form video app TikTok has quickly established itself as the go-to social platform for many Gen Z-ers.

Along with its predecessor, Musical.ly, TikTok has made stars out of ‘influencers’ like Baby Ariel, Jacob Sartorius, Riyaz Afreen and the Dobre Twins, and its young users helped meme Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ – which went viral on TikTok (as part of the ‘Yeehaw…

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