** TikTok is no longer an exclusive network for young audiences and adults seek well-being and pleasure on the platform
** Young people between the ages of 4 and 15 spend more than 80 minutes on the platform, becoming natural users of this app
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During a webinar organized in partnership with the Medianalisis Civil Association and the Association of Venezuelan Journalists Abroad (Apevex), the digital marketing expert and communication strategist for major international companies, Noelia Gonzalez Pereyraassured that Tiktok became a space for entertainment and learning where there is also room to manage journalism.
Being the number one platform in 2019 and remaining in the same position in 2022, the renowned application is among the 10 most downloaded applications in the world, followed by Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Shopee, Telegram, Snapchat, Messenger, CapCut and Spotify. , according to the data provided by González in the virtual conversation that took place this Thursday, August 4, with Andres Canizalezdirector of Medianalisis.
“Before it was an app for children and adolescents and now there are more and more adults, because it went from being an entertainment application to being one for content creation,” said Noelia González, who also works as a teacher in the diploma Marketing and social networks at the Catholic University of Cordoba.
In addition, González explained that this adjustment and adaptation behavior of the platform is mainly due to the way in which users have experienced entertainment, participation, discovery and inspiration in the application.
In this same sense, he stated that “Tiktok is generous, it lets me do what I want, and that is fabulous”, referring to the wide variety of options that the tool has, from allowing the creation of short content, following trends or more videos. popular, wide variety of filters and you do not need to be previously registered to see.
Great global reach
The marketing and social media expert, Noelia González Pereyra, also spoke about the percentages of the audience that follow the platform. It reported that those under 18 years of age occupy 28% of the total number of users, those between 19 and 29 years of age represent 35%, 18% of users are over 30 years of age and 19% are over 39. years.
Which means that it stopped being an exclusive network for young audiences and, according to these data, adults have migrated to TikTok looking for well-being and pleasure, according to their appreciation.
The academic indicated that last year, during a communication diploma, the data was shared that adolescents spend approximately 3 hours a day connected to the networks, “that is, a 15-year-old adolescent can have 4 years of life in the virtual; there are people who are going to have a life in digital”.
The average that a user spends on TikTok is 52 minutes a day on the network, the figure doubled between 2020 and 2021. In general, the majority of followers open the app at least once a day and young people between the ages of 4 and 15 spend more than 80 minutes on the platform, becoming natural users.
These numbers have generated important media and communication channels to join this network; as an example he cited the newspaper The nation in Argentina, the renowned Spanish television program the anthill and even the renowned photographer Jordi Koalitic
The expert commented that, although journalists are afraid of venturing into an unknown network, there should be no fear with TikTok, because the app It is here to stay, you only have to take into account some characteristics to be able to scale within the platform, such as knowing the type of niche to which you are going to speak and how you will do it.
The best example of digital immersion
The COVID-19 pandemic left great learning in different areas and the best example of this is due to the digital immersion that was generated due to confinement, explained Noelia González.
He reported that according to his studies in artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Buenos Aires, all the developments that are being planned for the 2030 agenda will be immersed in AI.
The creation of digital content is essential to have a constant audience, which activates by sharing and interacting with TikTok.
“There is still no platform that can replace it due to the feeling of closeness that it generates between the content creator and the user.”
To see the complete virtual conversation you just have to click on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DI7xQ5zJcI
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