TikTok continues to realize momentum within the EU, with the platform’s newest EU DSA disclosure assertion exhibiting that it now has 189 million month-to-month lively customers within the area.
Beneath the EU Digital Providers Act, all giant on-line platforms want to offer biannual updates on whole customers and moderation employees, in addition to rule violations and suspensions.
TikTok’s August replace confirmed that it added 9 million extra EU customers within the first half of 2026.
As proven on this graph, TikTok continues to realize traction with EU customers, sustaining regular viewers development within the area.
Although it’s not fairly as many as TikTok itself claimed final September, when it printed a weblog put up to announce that the platform had reached 200 million EU customers.
Based mostly on these official numbers, it hasn’t reached that milestone fairly but, although it’s closing on that subsequent large quantity within the area.
For context, TikTok’s international viewers is cut up as follows:
TikTok continues to be banned in India and restricted in Russia, and it’s not obtainable in China, the place there’s a neighborhood model of the app.
These numbers give some scope to the increasing presence of the short-form video app, which has risen to turn out to be a key participant within the social media panorama, and continues to realize traction in lots of markets.
When it comes to different parts of TikTok’s newest DSA report, the platform stated that it eliminated round 104 million uploads which had violated its insurance policies within the first half of 2026, with 94.1% of these removals taking place through automated means with out human evaluation.
On that entrance, TikTok added an additional 64 human moderators within the EU, versus its reported staffing numbers from the second half of 2025. Although it has additionally considerably lowered its human moderation workforce over time.
In October 2024, TikTok reported having 6,354 human moderators protecting the EU area. On this newest replace, it reported 3,738 members on its moderation employees.
Total, these DSA disclosure numbers present perception into the rise of TikTok, and its ongoing enchantment, because the platform continues to increase.
