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Has existed since 2015, founded with the support of the presidential administration. Its activities are aimed at creating a discussion platform for the Internet and media industry, conducting public and custom industry research, as well as establishing a dialogue between the industry and the government. IRI supported such media projects as the continuation of the series for the online cinema more.tv "Difficult Teens" and the teenage drama "Sama Dura".

Subscribe to our Telegram channel to stay up to date with all the news and events of the Runeplatform, an analogue of TikTok, at the Russian Creative Week (RCW) fest-forum. This was reported by Lenta.ru.

“In the fall, we are launching a platform for vertical short videos, because 87% thailand whatsapp number list of smartphone owners consume content in vertical format,” Zharov said.

To implement the project, Gazprom-Media bought the mobile application for bloggers "Ya Molodets" from OOO "Yamolodets". The application was developed with the organizational and expert support of the Innopraktika Foundation. It is unknown what the service will be called, but according to domain broker Pavel Gross-Dneprov, it may be called SUP.Ru.

TikTok-style services have been launched by all major social networks, including Instagram, YouTube, VKontakte, and Odnoklassniki. There are no separate statistics on the number of visits to these services, but according to Mediascope, 18.098 million smartphone owners over 12 years old from Russia use the VKontakte app daily, Instagram is visited daily by 15.585 million users, the YouTube platform is used by 12.824 million people, and TikTok is visited daily by 5.845 million people.

According to TelecomDaily CEO Denis Kuskov, Zharov’s statement raises great “skepticism”.

"Not a single app has been created in Russia yet that could compete with imported messengers or apps with video content, such as TikTok and Instagram. On the one hand, these apps and this trend have a future. It is fashionable and will be fashionable for a certain number of years. On the other hand, the app will not become popular just because it is Russian, there must be some features that would interest users, except for the situation in which foreign platforms are closed to users, but so far there are no prerequisites for this," he told Runet.News.