As with the previous post (for Instagram) – here.

The same 29 comedians and the top 3 are again Gold (UK) and Blue (US).

Not everyone utilises TikTok accounts so we have no Bill Burr, Joe Rogan, John Mulaney or Ricky Gervais. And Zakir Khan is hard to track because his handle of ZakirKhan_208 is deeply unpopular with the free online counters – although some seem to be okay with peterkay_co_uk. Collection both of their account numbers is really hit and miss.

The Top 3 places jump around, depending on how you look at the accounts, so we have totals for (1) Likes (2) Followers and (3) Views. This post is titled “followers” (for consistency with the other platform posts) but, as you will see below, Views are probably more important.

I wasn’t capturing how many videos each account has but recently found TokCount (here) which shows that number.

Of the almost 2 billion TikTok users:

• 40% are under 34
• 25% (overall) are 18-24
• 20.56% are from the US
• Finland has the highest average monthly time (54 hours 37 min)
• Users are slightly biased towards males (54.6%)
• The largest group, by age, is male 25-34 (23.6%)

There are more numbers on usage and demographics here.

I would guess that the high %age of younger males is why the smart comics utilise TikTok. That demographic is either a proportion of their audience now – or are a good target to aim to pick up. Your future audience.

TikTok Likes

TikTok videos apparently get an average “like to view” ratio of 4%. A Good ratio of likes would be in the range 6-10%.

If I pull out Jimmy’s video count (1325) they have 52.8 m likes for 563,115,351 views.

At the top end of this list Matt Rife’s 481 m likes is for 355 videos, with 3,442,041,369 views

(Likes / Views) x 100 = Like-to-View Ratio (%)

Matt’s ratio is above average at 14% and Jimmy’s is at 9%.

Changing the view to look at variance, October 20^th to December 31^st – we lose Nate Bargatze from the list because I didn’t have data, from the first date, for his account.

Otherwise – Go Jimmy! Growth of 3.67 m likes in 2.5 months.

The 2^nd placed Brits (Jack at 634k and Russell at 500k) are not remotely in the same ballpark, even though they have accumulated more likes over the time they have had accounts.

What we are seeing here is quite a growth spurt.

TikTok Followers

Now to the “followers” data.

Variance data is again for the period from October 20^th 2025 to December 31^st. As many accounts have either had loses or tiny increases the screenshot below shows the data sorted by most followers, with the variance alongside.

Jack is the top Brit but, in the 2.5 months has lost -922 followers. Whereas Jimmy’s account gained 88,572. It’s that growth spurt again.

TikTok Views

It apparently depends on which creator programme you are on as to how small a payment you receive for a million TikTok views (this recent Reddit thread is an interesting read – here).

In the case of established comedians – I doubt that they are too worried about this as the video clips are basically ads, to sell tickets.

Looking back at the above (just the Brits):

Likes:

1. Jack – 90,375,835
2. Jimmy – 52,882,256
3. Russell – 46,957,224

Followers:

• Jack – 3,513,839
• Jimmy – 2,480,664
• Russell – 1,592,136

But then we get to views:

• Jimmy – 563,115,351
• Jack – 288,637,995
• Russell – 256,701,121

If we add together Jack and Russell’s channel views they amount to 545,339,116 – which is 17.7 m behind the views Jimmy’s account has had.

This means – if the game is to sell tickets, then I would say Views is the important metric, more so than followers.

Followers is a yardstick that gives an idea of how much attention a comedian can command – but, if a Views figure is available, then that’s probably a more valuable number.

2025 12 31 reports links

• X / Twitter – here
• Facebook – here
• Instagram – here
• YouTube – here
• All 5 social platforms – here
• YT & TikTok views – here

Previous report links for 2025:

• Apr 25 – YouTube figures – here
• May 19 – YouTube figures – here
• May 28 – TikTok figures – here
• May 25 – Facebook figures – here
• May 24 – Instagram figures – here
• Jun 1 – social account totals – here
• July 31 – Social account totals for US/UK comics (5 platforms) – here
• July 31 – Follow on report totalling “most followers” overall – here
• September 13 – most subbed on YouTube mini report – here
• October 22 – impact of Riyadh festival on follower counts? – here
• November 11 – Twitter/X being affected by Online Safety Bill? – here
• November 19 – Twitter/X subscriber losses to date – here