Temu has surpassed 1.2 billion downloads worldwide by the end of October, extending its lead as the most downloaded shopping app globally for a third straight year, data from Sensor Tower showed on Tuesday.

Between January and October, the e-commerce platform once again ranked first in both global downloads and active user growth, remaining No.1 across North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan and South Korea.

Temu's monthly active users climbed to a record 530 million in August.