By: Chris Wu
Douyin just launched “hot recommendations” — mapping food, scenery, culture, and more, all triggered based on your location.
Users will now find a built-in map with the most frequently checked-in places near them. Find restaurant recommendations or scan neighborhoods for new hot spots. Catch a viral dance video → zoom into the neighborhood where it was filmed for an interesting new cafe → get a route with ETAs by car or foot from your current location.
Use Douyin’s location feature to find where Mickey Mouse is dancing on the street in Shanghai:
Or visit Shanghai’s majestic Cheng Huang temple across the Huangpu River:
Or decide which popular items to order at one of Douyin’s most visited restaurants in Pudong, Shanghai:
The news and video-sharing platform has launched multiple versions of TikTok targeted for specific country app stores, in addition to its flagship Douyin app in China. Today, 250 million daily users can now locate nearby attractions on our maps powered from Mapbox.cn, our infrastructure all running in mainland China.
“Douyin aims to help users explore a bigger world. Now, users are able to discover and enjoy the same lifestyle as vloggers on Douyin by tagging places and checking the location on the map in more than 233 countries and areas. A three-year-old Douyin is growing as a short video platform for everyone in China, with half a billion MAU, and it will never stop.”
— Stev Wang, Douyin Product Manager
Location is important to Douyin, with users in more than 233 countries. Those users now have the ability to add real-time locations to the videos they create and share on Douyin, making the experience even more local and connected.
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