Which were the most used apps in China during Lunar New Year? Familiar names like Tencent and ByteDance dominated top 5

Top 5 apps combined used more than 75% of mobile data during the holiday period, according to MIIT report. Tencent and ByteDance each had two apps in the top five, with four of the five being more than a decade old. — SCMP

The most used apps in China during the Lunar New Year holiday were familiar domestic social media and content platforms that have dominated the market for the past decade, according to government data.

Among the apps that used the most cellular data during the nine-day holiday were Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok owned by ByteDance, Tencent Holdings’ super app WeChat, China’s second-largest short video platform Kuaishou, Tencent Video and Jinri Toutiao, the news aggregator that also belongs to ByteDance.