tiktok is ByteDance's short-video app, and Google Search interest sits at 73 for the week of August 22 2026, down 2.67% in 7 days from 75 and down 6.41% in 30 days from 78. Trends MCP data pulled August 26 2026 shows the 261-week series first printed 45 on August 28 2021 and peaked at 100 on January 25 2025. The 90-day change is -2.67% from 75 on May 23 2026. Google Play ranks TikTok at 8, and the App Store lists TikTok Pro - Events at 4, as of August 26 2026 06:01 UTC.
TikTok search interest right now
Google Search interest for tiktok is 73 for the week of August 22 2026, down 6.41% from 78 on July 25 and down 2.67% from 75 on August 15, on a 261-week Trends MCP series that first printed 45 on August 28 2021. get_growth matches those two windows at -6.41% and -2.67%. REST and MCP both closed the week at 73 on this pull.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 73 (week of 2026-08-22) |
| 30-day change | -6.41% (from 78 on 2026-07-25) |
| 90-day change | -2.67% (from 75 on 2026-05-23) |
| Peak value | 100 on 2025-01-25 |
| First seen | 45 on 2021-08-28 |
August 1 printed 75, August 8 printed 72, August 15 printed 75, then August 22 printed 73. That is a tight band, not a collapse. Google Play puts TikTok - Videos, Shop and LIVE at 8 as of August 26 2026 06:01 UTC, behind WhatsApp Messenger, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Free Fire: 9th Anniversary, Messenger, and Flipkart. The App Store Top Free board lists TikTok Pro - Events at 4 and CapCut at 21. CapCut search interest is 88, up 12.82% over 30 days from 78.
About tiktok
TikTok is a short-form video platform owned through ByteDance, the Beijing company Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo founded on 13 March 2012, with Douyin launched in China on 20 September 2016 and TikTok launched internationally in September 2017 for markets outside China. ByteDance bought Musical.ly for nearly $1 billion on 9 November 2017 and merged the apps on 2 August 2018. Wikipedia records close to 800 million monthly users excluding Douyin in July 2020, then 1 billion users in September 2021.
Shou Zi Chew became CEO in May 2021 after Kevin A. Mayer resigned on 27 August 2020. A U.S. sale-or-ban deadline of 19 January 2025 produced a brief outage dated that day by The Verge and NBC News, which lines up with 84 on January 18 2025 and 100 on January 25 2025. TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC formed on 22 January 2026, with Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX at 15% each and ByteDance at 19.9%. Searchers still type the app name, which is why the TikTok trends board keeps a live curve.
What the time series shows
The 261-week Google Search series for tiktok opens at 45 on August 28 2021, climbs through the 50s and 60s, then spikes to 84 on January 18 2025 and 100 on January 25 2025 during the U.S. ban week before falling back to 58 on February 1 2025. Derived labels from that series are growth regular, speed stationary, seasonality medium, and volatility low, with week-over-week sample standard deviation 4.83% across 52 weeks and zero skipped 0-to-0 weeks.
August 22 2026 at 73 sits 27 points under that January 2025 peak and matches 73 on August 23 2025. Same-week marks were 54 on August 24 2024 and 64 on August 26 2023. A 2026 local high of 80 landed on June 6. The latest 30-day absolute change is -5, and the prior 30-day window is flat at 78, so speed cannot be exponential. The 6.41% 30-day move is under the 10% cutoff, which is why the label is stationary.
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Same-day Google Play and App Store Top Free neighbors, plus get_growth on those queries, put tiktok next to other high-volume apps on the live boards rather than next to a one-week novelty for the week of August 22 2026.
- capcut: +12.82% over 30 days (88 from 78), App Store rank 21 as of August 26 2026 06:01 UTC
- snapchat: +4.0% over 30 days (52 from 50), 7-day +6.12% from 49, estimated weekly volume 22,000,000
- youtube: -2.44% over 30 days (80 from 82), Google Play rank 3, estimated weekly volume 1,610,000,000
- whatsapp: -4.62% over 30 days (62 from 65), Google Play rank 1, estimated weekly volume 178,000,000
- instagram: -7.14% over 30 days (65 from 70), Google Play rank 4, estimated weekly volume 473,000,000