TikTok user spending hits US$78 million in April, leads YouTube to become world’s top-grossing non-game app

• About 86.6 per cent of combined user spending on TikTok and sister app Douyin in April was generated in mainland China, followed by 8.2 per cent in the United States
• That raises the stakes for ByteDance amid expectations that TikTok will continue to pull in advertisers and user spending worldwide