Since its release in early March, the song has soundtracked nearly 150,000 videos on the platform. For Nimino, that doesn't just mean more exposure for his music. It means money. A lot of the sports-world accounts that have used his track are businesses-Atlético de Madrid, the "Men in Blazers" podcast, Major League Baseball, the LPGA, and the Philadelphia Eagles-that accessed the song via TikTok's growing Commercial Music Library (CML), which ensures artists are paid when their music is used commercially.
TikTok is finally bringing its long-rumoured ad-free subscription to the UK, giving users the option to pay for a cleaner version of the app without personalised advertising. The new plan will cost £3.99 per month and is set to roll out to UK users aged over 18 "over the coming months." In exchange, TikTok says subscribers will see ads removed from their feed, and they will no longer have their data used for unspecified "advertising purposes."
The proposed agreement would resolve a 2024 lawsuit, started by former President Joe Biden's administration, accusing TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of carrying out massive-scale invasions of children's privacy by allegedly collecting data from users under the age of 13 without parental consent. ABC, citing sources familiar with the discussions, reported that TikTok would pay roughly $400 million under the deal, though the settlement still requires approval from the company's board and is not expected to include an admission of wrongdoing.
"I'm always craving to feel things a bit more than I do the rest of the year," Maudsley says about Columbine's anniversary, and that's why she decided to share the contents of her backpack with her modest online following.
Joe Macken revealed to his daughter that he'd made significant progress on his miniature scale model of New York City, a robust project to which he'd devoted the previous two decades. The handmade model is now housed at the Museum of the City of New York in an ongoing exhibition entitled He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model, located in the Museum's Dinan Miller Gallery.
TikTok's 2026 algorithm scans each frame, favours clips that keep viewers watching, and pushes down posts that feel low effort. When an AI editor trims silence, snaps cuts to the beat, and adds captions in seconds, you gain that retention-boosting polish without spending hours in Premiere.
Takanaka, who sold out the 3,000-capacity Masonic with resale tickets going for upwards of $300, is one of the best examples of a renewed interest in the sounds of 1970s and '80s soft rock from Japan known as city pop.
It's only been on the shelves for a week, so we were surprised by the huge hype. It's not every day milk gets rock star treatment. We're really happy, of course, we believed in the product, but we weren't expecting this super demand. It sold out faster than we could say 'pink'.
