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📈 TikTok had a big day yesterday - the company announced that it had surpassed more than 1 billion monthly users and unveiled three major customization and tools.

TikTok hits 1 billion monthly users, unveils new customizable marketing tools to brand partners TikTok’s new marketing tools focus on customization and commerce: It’s taking steps to make advertisers feel comfortable on the platform and heavily push social commerce.

💡 What's your for the year ahead? Here're the 8 Social Media to watch out for.

8 Social Media Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2022 and Beyond [Infographic] What's coming next in social media? The team from Red Website Design get in early with their 2022 predictions.

📺 🕹 Gamescom’s audience was up by 30 percent over last year’s digital outing, with 13m live viewers in total. A huge part of that success comes from the flagship Opening Night Live event, which recorded 5.8m live viewers across its running time.

Gamescom’s digital audience grows by 30 per cent year-on-year | Business News | MCV/DEVELOP Opening Night Live reaches 13m live viewers | MCV/DEVELOP

🇺🇸 🎮 US consumer game spending up 10% to $4.6b for July. Spending on content saw 6% growth year-over-year across console, mobile, PC, cloud, and subscription services, while spending on hardware saw a gain of 98% year-on-year.

US consumer game spending up 10% to $4.6b for July | US Monthly Charts The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin debut in first and third