make money from livestreaming on the platform. our team in syria heard of at least five different agencies working with syrian families in camps. so, how much money do these agencies take from the livestreams? we spoke to a number of agencies who say they re paid by tiktok to bring livestreamers to the platform. they told us the longer users go live and the more gifts they earn, the more the agencies get paid. we were told by families and middlemen that tiktok takes 50 70% of profits from live gifts and pays some of that to agencies. we asked tiktok about it, but they wouldn t say how much. the only way to find out was to try it for ourselves.
£1,000 would have been put in there and that, to them, would have been a lot of money. we got the money! we asked a charity in syria about how children are being used in these videos. the charity said it could help support these families as an alternative to making money from tiktok live. many families don t receive a fair wage for their work on tiktok. the first time dokan went live, he says he wasn t paid at all, but he wanted to try again.
a long time in the life of a chancellor. marc ashdown, bbc news. now bbc news investigates a new trend on tiktok: hundreds of families in refugee camps in syria, begging for gifts on tiktok livestreams. there s a new trend on tiktok. children in camps in syria begging for hours on end. they re asking for tiktok gifts that can be withdrawn as real money. but that money isn t all going to them. we ve been following more than 300 accounts going live on tiktok, trying to work out where that money is going. tiktok has got a ferocious appetite for growth. the longer that they spend
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the first time dokan went live, he says he wasn t paid at all, but he wanted to try again. he was hoping to make money to pay for his daughter s heart surgery. to find out how much people are spending on tiktok gifts, we built a program to scrape data from tiktok livestreams.