SurveyAll sizesUSA
20%
of US adults regularly get news on TikTok, unchanged from 2025 and up from 3% in 2020
Sample: 5,166 US adults, American Trends Panel, 24-30 Aug 2026
Pew Research Center, Aug 2026
In plain words
What this number really says
39% of US adults ages 18 to 29 regularly get news on TikTok (Aug 2026).
39%
the latest figure (Aug 2026)
Survey
type of source
Why you can trust it. Pew Research Center: survey, sampled survey with a published method. 5,166 US adults, American Trends Panel, 24-30 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Period Aug 2026
- Region USA
- Company size All sizes
- Next data Irregular
Source: Pew Research Center, Aug 2026
Method and use
How it was measured, and how to use it
How it was measured
- Publisher
- Pew Research Center
- Source type
- Survey: Sampled survey with a published method
- What it measures
- 39% of US adults ages 18 to 29 regularly get news on TikTok
- Data period
- Aug 2026 (ends 30 Aug 2026)
- Published by the source
- 19 Oct 2026
- Who is counted
- 5,166 US adults, American Trends Panel, 24-30 Aug 2026
- In the source's words
Among Americans ages 18 to 29, around four-in-ten (39%) say they do this regularly.
- Checked at source
- 23 Oct 2026: Read on pewresearch.org.
- Reuse
- Free to quote with credit. American Trends Panel, a probability panel of US adults.
- Next expected update
- Irregular (Pew Research Center, irregular)
- Original page
- www.pewresearch.org: Pew Research Center
- Data files
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Full change log
No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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Pew Research Center. (2026). 39% of US adults ages 18 to 29 regularly get news on TikTok. Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/social-media/young-adults-get-news-on-tiktok
MLA
"39% of US adults ages 18 to 29 regularly get news on TikTok." Pew Research Center, Aug 2026. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/social-media/young-adults-get-news-on-tiktok.
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39% of US adults ages 18 to 29 regularly get news on TikTok, for Aug 2026, according to Pew Research Center. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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