TikTok Boom

Chris Stokel-Walker is a British technology journalist who specialises in stories about social media. His work regularly appears in WIRED, the Guardian, BBC News and New Scientist.

He is known for breaking major news about social media platforms, especially TikTok and YouTube.

For his book on YouTube, YouTubers, he travelled around the world, speaking to behind-the-camera producers and powerbrokers, including key creators KSI, Hank and John Green, and Emma Blackery. For his follow-up book on TikTok, TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Race for Social Media, he has gone behind the scenes, interviewing top TikTokers, senior figures at its Chinese owner ByteDance, and politicians and marketing and brand professionals. Both TikTok Boom and YouTubers are the books you need to read to understand how the platforms work and how to make them work for you.