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Instagram CEO testifies about competing with TikTok: ‘You’re either growing, or you’re slowly dying’ from The Verge - All Posts RSS feed.

Instagram CEO testifies about competing with TikTok: ‘You’re either growing, or you’re slowly dying’

When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he'd later call "concerning" drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was […]