"This surge was likely triggered by concerns over TikTok's change in ownership and its unfortunately timed technical glitches. TikTok had announced on January 22 the establishment of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, designed to comply with Trump's executive order requiring the company's U.S. operations be sold to a group of American investors. TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance will now own less than 20% of the new entity."
"The app now has over 150,000 videos uploaded directly to the platform. It can also stream videos from Bluesky because of its AT Protocol integration. Harmeyer said Saturday that 1.4 million videos were played on the app the day before, up 3x over the past 24 hours. The app had also seen signups increase more than 150%. Other noteworthy stats include over a 50% increase in returning users, over 40% rise in video played on average, and over 100% increase in posts created."
Skylight is a short-form vertical video app built on the AT Protocol that has surpassed 380,000 users and 150,000 uploaded videos. The app supports a built-in video editor, user profiles, likes, comments, sharing, and community-curated custom feeds, and can stream Bluesky content via AT Protocol integration. Reported metrics include 1.4 million video plays in a day, signups up over 150%, returning users up over 50%, average videos played up over 40%, and posts created up over 100%. Skylight launched last year, is backed by Mark Cuban and others, and saw accelerated growth amid concerns over TikTok's U.S. ownership change and recent technical glitches. TikTok established the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on January 22, with ByteDance retaining less than 20% ownership.
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