TikTok has recorded its first annual profit across Europe, Africa and Latin America after regional revenue climbed 45.7 per cent in 2025.
The financial breakthrough came during one of the most politically difficult periods in the platform’s history, with regulatory action in Europe now threatening to eat into those gains.
TikTok’s regional operations generated $9.1 billion in revenue during the year, up from about $6.3 billion in 2024, according to accounts filed by TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited. Revenue has now more than tripled since 2022, when the same business reported $2.6 billion.
The company finished 2025 with a profit of $702.5 million after losing $657.3 million the previous year and $1.36 billion in 2023.
TikTok described the result as a major turning point after years of heavy spending to expand the platform, livestreaming services and its TikTok Shop ecommerce business.
“The directors regard 2025 as an inflection point in the group’s transition from a capital investment phase to sustained operating profitability,” TikTok wrote in the filing.
The improved result arrived despite a turbulent year in the United States, where TikTok briefly went offline and disappeared from app stores in January as tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated.
By December, the Trump administration had brokered an Oracle-led agreement involving a partial change in ownership of TikTok’s US operations.
ByteDance continues to operate TikTok in the United States, although ownership and revenue are now shared through a joint venture involving Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz and other investors.
The Beijing-based company also operates TikTok across Asia and runs Douyin, a separate version of the platform available in China.
TikTok’s international growth was driven by a larger user base, rising livestreaming revenue and the continued expansion of TikTok Shop.
However, the company’s latest accounts also reveal mounting legal and regulatory exposure, with nearly $1 billion set aside to cover possible fines, investigations and lawsuits.
European regulators remain concerned about the handling of children’s information and whether data belonging to European users can be accessed from China.
TikTok has appealed earlier penalties and now faces another investigation that could result in a fine worth as much as 4 per cent of global revenue under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
The regional result remains only one part of ByteDance’s much larger global business. The privately held company was reported to have generated $186 billion in revenue last year, although it does not publicly disclose detailed accounts covering its worldwide operations.
TikTok’s latest figures show that political pressure has done little to slow its commercial growth outside the United States.
