China’s TikTok, Douyin, says it created 36 million jobs in the last year, with lots of live-streamers

Short-video platform Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, says it created 36 million jobs domestically over the year-long period from last August in the video and live-streaming sector – one of the few areas where employment is flourishing in the nation’s challenging post-coronavirus labour market.Among that total, about 20 million are individual content creators and live-streaming hosts, while 8.6 million came from their team members. The rest were from Douyin’s corporate accounts and…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101037/chinas-tiktok-douyin-says-it-created-36-million-jobs-last