TIKTOK, INC.

Lobbying client · California · filed 2025 to 2026

Internet Technology Company.

$3,270,000 Reported spend

35 Filings counted

6 Outside firms hired

2 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 35 filings. 2 further filings for this client were restated by a later amendment and are left out of every total here. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 6 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well. These filings have also been reported as TIKTOK INC.

Who filed for this client 6

BALLARD PARTNERS $800,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC $730,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
DENTONS US LLP $720,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
AND PARTNERS LLC $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
COZEN O'CONNOR PUBLIC STRATEGIES $380,000 Outside firm · 5 filings
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD $220,000 Outside firm · 3 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Bills named in these filings 2

H.R. 391
Extend the TikTok Deadline Act

5 filings
S. 103
Extend the TikTok Deadline Act

5 filings

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $1,150,000 15 filings
2025 $2,120,000 20 filings

Issues lobbied 3

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 5

SENATE 27
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 24
White House Office 7
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) 3
Treasury, Dept of 2

Recent filings 37 total

Q3 report

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · $110,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2026

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CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $80,000 income · posted Oct 17, 2026

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DENTONS US LLP

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $75,000 income · posted Oct 16, 2026

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AND PARTNERS LLC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Oct 15, 2026

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AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · $110,000 income · posted Sep 25, 2026

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AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Sep 1, 2026

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BALLARD PARTNERS

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · $50,000 income · posted Jul 17, 2026

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CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $80,000 income · posted Jul 17, 2026

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AND PARTNERS LLC

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jul 8, 2026

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DENTONS US LLP

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $75,000 income · posted Jul 7, 2026

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COZEN O'CONNOR PUBLIC STRATEGIES

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · $60,000 income · posted Apr 20, 2026

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BALLARD PARTNERS

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $150,000 income · posted Apr 20, 2026

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CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $90,000 income · posted Apr 19, 2026

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DENTONS US LLP

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $90,000 income · posted Apr 16, 2026

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AND PARTNERS LLC

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Apr 7, 2026

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COZEN O'CONNOR PUBLIC STRATEGIES

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · $80,000 income · posted Jan 20, 2026

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BALLARD PARTNERS

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $150,000 income · posted Jan 20, 2026

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CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $120,000 income · posted Jan 19, 2026

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DENTONS US LLP

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $120,000 income · posted Jan 15, 2026

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AND PARTNERS LLC

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jan 7, 2026

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Foreign entities disclosed 4

BYTEDANCE LTD. (OWNS 100% OF BYTEDANCE INC.; 100% OF TIKTOK LTD.) Cayman Islands named on 2 filings · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0
GOGOKU LTD. (OWNS APPROXIMATELY 21% OF BYTEDANCE LTD.) (FORMERLY BYTETEAM LTD.) Virgin Islands (British) named on 2 filings · highest disclosed ownership 21% · largest disclosed contribution $0
TIKTOK LTD. (OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK LLC WHICH OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK INC.) Cayman Islands named on 2 filings · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0
ZHANG YIMING (OWNS 100% OF GOGOKU LTD.) Singapore named on 2 filings · highest disclosed ownership 21% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.

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Filings through October 20, 2026, the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.