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Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, is the world's most valuable Startup.With an ecosystem spanning short-form video, news aggregation, and artificial intelligence, ByteDance's influence stretches far beyond its roots in China. Today, the company's flagship app TikTok stands as a cultural phenomenon, captivating billions of users across continents and redefining how content is created, shared, and consumed. This is the story of ByteDance, driven by the relentless vision of Zhang Yiming. From its humble beginnings as an app factory producing memes and news aggregators, ByteDance would go on to challenge titans like Tencent and Facebook, navigating fierce competition, regulatory hurdles, and cultural resistance to become a global empire. Episode 1: Clickbait and AddictionZhang Yiming discovers that the secret to building fast-growing apps lies in mastering the science of clickbait and addiction. Episode 2: Today's Headlines ByteDance hit it's first major success with Toutiao, the news app that redefined personalisation and propelled the company into the spotlight. Episode 3: Earthquake and ShockwaveByteDance shakes up China's tech scene with Douyin (China's version of TikTok), spearheading the short-form video revolution before Tencent joins the battle. Episode 4: Sayonara and Ni HaoByteDance perfects its strategy in Japan, then Asia, laying the groundwork for global domination. Episode 5: Gold RushByteDance storms into the U.S. by acquiring Musical.ly, rebranding it as TikTok. Leveraging its proven strategies, TikTok quickly becomes America's top app.-Our series is proudly sponsored by AlphaSense.-Access expert analyst reports, perfectly summarized by Gen-AI with precision and no hallucinations. Support our productions by booking your free trial today.-Want to showcase your brand to listeners with a combined net worth of over $1 billion and a network of 100,000+ employees and industry contacts? Drop us an email: sales@1upmediapodcast.com-We're looking to grow our team! Support our productions by buying us a coffee.-Want to meet the team? Follow me here!-If you love the style of Empires, and want similar content, check out:
Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, is the world's most valuable Startup.With an ecosystem spanning short-form video, news aggregation, and artificial intelligence, ByteDance's influence stretches far beyond its roots in China. Today, the company's flagship app TikTok stands as a cultural phenomenon, captivating billions of users across continents and redefining how content is created, shared, and consumed. This is the story of ByteDance, driven by the relentless vision of Zhang Yiming. From its humble beginnings as an app factory producing memes and news aggregators, ByteDance would go on to challenge titans like Tencent and Facebook, navigating fierce competition, regulatory hurdles, and cultural resistance to become a global empire. Episode 1: Clickbait and AddictionZhang Yiming discovers that the secret to building fast-growing apps lies in mastering the science of clickbait and addiction. Episode 2: Today's Headlines ByteDance hit it's first major success with Toutiao, the news app that redefined personalisation and propelled the company into the spotlight. Episode 3: Earthquake and ShockwaveByteDance shakes up China's tech scene with Douyin (China's version of TikTok), spearheading the short-form video revolution before Tencent joins the battle. Episode 4: Sayonara and Ni HaoByteDance perfects its strategy in Japan, then Asia, laying the groundwork for global domination. Episode 5: Gold RushByteDance storms into the U.S. by acquiring Musical.ly, rebranding it as TikTok. Leveraging its proven strategies, TikTok quickly becomes America's top app.-Our series is proudly sponsored by AlphaSense.Access expert analyst reports, perfectly summarized by Gen-AI with precision and no hallucinations. Support our productions by booking your free trialtoday.-Want to showcase your brand to listeners with a combined net worth of over $1 billion and a network of 100,000+ employees and industry contacts? Drop us an email: sales@1upmediapodcast.com-We're looking to grow our team! Support our productions bybuying us a coffee.-Want to meet the team? Follow me here!-If you love the style of Empires, and want similar content, check out:
Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, is the world's most valuable Startup. With an ecosystem spanning short-form video, news aggregation, and artificial intelligence, ByteDance's influence stretches far beyond its roots in China. Today, the company's flagship app TikTok stands as a cultural phenomenon, captivating billions of users across continents and redefining how content is created, shared, and consumed. This is the story of ByteDance, driven by the relentless vision of Zhang Yiming. From its humble beginnings as an app factory producing memes and news aggregators, ByteDance would go on to challenge titans like Tencent and Facebook, navigating fierce competition, regulatory hurdles, and cultural resistance to become a global empire. Episode 1: Clickbait and Addiction Zhang Yiming discovers that the secret to building fast-growing apps lies in mastering the science of clickbait and addiction. Episode 2: Today's Headlines ByteDance hit it's first major success with Toutiao, the news app that redefined personalisation and propelled the company into the spotlight. Episode 3: Earthquake and Shockwave ByteDance shakes up China's tech scene with Douyin (China's version of TikTok), spearheading the short-form video revolution before Tencent joins the battle. Episode 4: Sayonara and Ni Hao ByteDance perfects its strategy in Japan, then Asia, laying the groundwork for global domination. Episode 5: Gold Rush ByteDance storms into the U.S. by acquiring Musical.ly, rebranding it as TikTok. Leveraging its proven strategies, TikTok quickly becomes America's top app. - Our series is proudly sponsored by AlphaSense. Access expert analyst reports, perfectly summarized by Gen-AI with precision and no hallucinations. Support our productions by booking your free trial today. - Want to showcase your brand to listeners with a combined net worth of over $1 billion and a network of 100,000+ employees and industry contacts? Drop us an email: sales@1upmediapodcast.com - We're looking to grow our team! Support our productions by buying us a coffee. - Want to meet the team? Follow me here! - If you love the style of Empires, and want similar content, check out:
Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, is the world's most valuable Startup. With an ecosystem spanning short-form video, news aggregation, and artificial intelligence, ByteDance's influence stretches far beyond its roots in China. Today, the company's flagship app TikTok stands as a cultural phenomenon, captivating billions of users across continents and redefining how content is created, shared, and consumed. This is the story of ByteDance, driven by the relentless vision of Zhang Yiming. From its humble beginnings as an app factory producing memes and news aggregators, ByteDance would go on to challenge titans like Tencent and Facebook, navigating fierce competition, regulatory hurdles, and cultural resistance to become a global empire. Episode 1: Clickbait and Addiction Zhang Yiming discovers that the secret to building fast-growing apps lies in mastering the science of clickbait and addiction. Episode 2: Today's Headlines ByteDance hit it's first major success with Toutiao, the news app that redefined personalisation and propelled the company into the spotlight. Episode 3: Earthquake and Shockwave ByteDance shakes up China's tech scene with Douyin (China's version of TikTok), spearheading the short-form video revolution before Tencent joins the battle. Episode 4: Sayonara and Ni Hao ByteDance perfects its strategy in Japan, then Asia, laying the groundwork for global domination. Episode 5: Gold Rush ByteDance storms into the U.S. by acquiring Musical.ly, rebranding it as TikTok. Leveraging its proven strategies, TikTok quickly becomes America's top app. - Our series is proudly sponsored by AlphaSense. Access expert analyst reports, perfectly summarized by Gen-AI with precision and no hallucinations. Support our productions by booking your free trial today. - Want to showcase your brand to listeners with a combined net worth of over $1 billion and a network of 100,000+ employees and industry contacts? Drop us an email: sales@1upmediapodcast.com - We're looking to grow our team! Support our productions by buying us a coffee. - Want to meet the team? Follow me here! - If you love the style of Empires, and want similar content, check out:
Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, is the world's most valuable Startup. With an ecosystem spanning short-form video, news aggregation, and artificial intelligence, ByteDance's influence stretches far beyond its roots in China. Today, the company's flagship app TikTok stands as a cultural phenomenon, captivating billions of users across continents and redefining how content is created, shared, and consumed. This is the story of ByteDance, driven by the relentless vision of Zhang Yiming. From its humble beginnings as an app factory producing memes and news aggregators, ByteDance would go on to challenge titans like Tencent and Facebook, navigating fierce competition, regulatory hurdles, and cultural resistance to become a global empire. Episode 1: Clickbait and Addiction Zhang Yiming discovers that the secret to building fast-growing apps lies in mastering the science of clickbait and addiction. Episode 2: Today's Headlines ByteDance hit it's first major success with Toutiao, the news app that redefined personalisation and propelled the company into the spotlight. Episode 3: Earthquake and Shockwave ByteDance shakes up China's tech scene with Douyin (China's version of TikTok), spearheading the short-form video revolution before Tencent joins the battle. Episode 4: Sayonara and Ni Hao ByteDance perfects its strategy in Japan, then Asia, laying the groundwork for global domination. Episode 5: Gold Rush ByteDance storms into the U.S. by acquiring Musical.ly, rebranding it as TikTok. Leveraging its proven strategies, TikTok quickly becomes America's top app. - Our series is proudly sponsored by AlphaSense. Access expert analyst reports, perfectly summarized by Gen-AI with precision and no hallucinations. Support our productions by booking your free trial today. - Want to showcase your brand to listeners with a combined net worth of over $1 billion and a network of 100,000+ employees and industry contacts? Drop us an email: sales@1upmediapodcast.com - We're looking to grow our team! Support our productions by buying us a coffee. - Want to meet the team? Follow me here! - If you love the style of Empires, and want similar content, check out:
29 avril 2024 Québec a présenté son plan pour lutter contre le déclin du françaisLe Parti québécois et Québec solidaire veulent se servir du Fonds vert pour le transport collectifLa loi sur le travail des enfants semble avoir fait diminuer le nombre d'accidentsEnviron 70 soldats canadiens, qui proviennent principalement de la base militaire de Valcartier, près de Québec, viennent de terminer une mission de formation militaire en Jamaïque. Aux États-Unis, des manifestants pro-palestiniens ont été interpellés sur plusieurs campusHydro-Québec veut laisser le privé jouer un plus grand rôle dans la recharge de véhiculesLa Société des alcools du Québec compte retirer, avant la fin de l'an prochain, jusqu'à 200 spiritueux québécois de ses tablettes. IBM reçoit 100 millions $ de Québec et Ottawa pour agrandir son usine de Bromont, en EstrieTikTok n'est pas à vendre, si l'on en croit sa propriétaireL'entreprise chinoise ByteDance, qui détient TikTok, n'a pas l'intention de vendre ce réseau social. C'est ce qu'elle a annoncé dans l'application de nouvelles chinoise Toutiao, dont elle est aussi propriétaire.Cette annonce est une réponse à la loi, adoptée la semaine dernière à Washington, qui soit forcerait TikTok à être vendu, soit interdirait le téléchargement de son application aux États-Unis. L'entreprise TikTok elle-même a déjà averti qu'elle contestera cette loi.Comme chaque lundi, InfoBref vous fait découvrir une jeune entreprise québécoise innovante.Cette semaine, on vous parle de la jeune pousse montréalaise Cubic Space.Elle a conçu un logiciel qui permet à tout lecteur média d'adapter des images captées avec des outils conçus pour la 3D, pour les afficher sur toute sorte de lecteur média, comme les tablettes, les téléphones, les ordinateurs, ou les casques de réalité virtuelle.Pour en savoir plus sur cette technologie, lisez le portrait de Cubic Space à http://infobref.com/jeqi-cubic-space-2024-04 --- Détails sur ces nouvelles et autres nouvelles: https://infobref.com S'abonner aux infolettres gratuites d'InfoBref: https://infobref.com/infolettres Voir comment s'abonner au balado InfoBref sur les principales plateformes de balado: https://infobref.com/audio Commentaires et suggestions à l'animateur Patrick Pierra, et information sur la commandite de ce balado: editeur@infobref.com Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
www.goodluckgabe.life The Perils of Audience Capture How influencers become brainwashed by their audiences The Man Who Ate Himself In 2016, 24 year old Nicholas Perry wanted to be big online. He started uploading videos to his YouTube channel in which he pursued his passion—playing the violin—and extolled the virtues of veganism. He went largely unnoticed. A year later, he abandoned veganism, citing health concerns. Now free to eat whatever he wanted, he began uploading mukbang videos of himself consuming various dishes while talking to the camera, as if having dinner with a friend. These new videos quickly found a sizable audience, but as the audience grew, so did their demands. The comments sections of the videos soon became filled with people challenging Perry to eat as much as he physically could. Eager to please, he began to set himself torturous eating challenges, each bigger than the last. His audience applauded, but always demanded more. Soon, he was filming himself eating entire menus of fast food restaurants in one sitting. In some respects, all his eating paid off; Nikocado Avocado, as Perry is now better known, has amassed over six million subscribers across six channels on YouTube. By satisfying the escalating demands of his audience, he got his wish of blowing up and being big online. But the cost was that he blew up and became big in ways he hadn't anticipated. Top: Nicholas Perry when he first started making mukbang videos. Bottom: Perry transformed by his audience's desires into Nikocado. Nikocado, moulded by his audience's desires into a cartoonish extreme, is now a wholly different character from Nicholas Perry, the vegan violinist who first started making videos. Where Perry was mild-mannered and health conscious, Nikocado is loud, abrasive, and spectacularly grotesque. Where Perry was a picky eater, Nikocado devoured everything he could, including finally Perry himself. The rampant appetite for attention caused the person to be subsumed by the persona. We often talk of "captive audiences," regarding the performer as hypnotizing their viewers. But just as often, it's the viewers hypnotizing the performer. This disease, of which Perry is but one victim of many, is known as audience capture, and it's essential to understanding influencers in particular and the online ecosystem in general. Lost in the Looking Glass Audience capture is an irresistible force in the world of influencing, because it's not just a conscious process but also an unconscious one. While it may ostensibly appear to be a simple case of influencers making a business decision to create more of the content they believe audiences want, and then being incentivized by engagement numbers to remain in this niche forever, it's actually deeper than that. It involves the gradual and unwitting replacement of a person's identity with one custom-made for the audience. To understand how, we must consider how people come to define themselves. A person's identity is being constantly refined, so it needs constant feedback. That feedback typically comes from other people, not so much by what they say they see as by what we think they see. We develop our personalities by imagining ourselves through others' eyes, using their borrowed gazes like mirrors to dress ourselves. Just as lacking a mirror to dress ourselves leaves us disheveled, so lacking other people's eyes to refine our personalities leaves us uncouth. This is why those raised in isolation, like poor Genie, become feral humans, adopting the character of beasts. Put simply, in order to be someone, we need someone to be someone for. Our personalities develop as a role we perform for other people, fulfilling the expectations we think they have of us. The American sociologist Charles Cooley dubbed this phenomenon “the looking glass self.” Evidence for it is diverse, and includes the everyday experience of seeing ourselves through imagined eyes in social situations (the spotlight effect), the tendency for people to alter their behavior when in the presence of pictures of eyes (the watching-eye effect), and the tendency for people in virtual spaces to adopt the traits of their avatars in an attempt to fulfill expectations (the Proteus effect). When we lived in small tight-knit communities, the looking glass self helped us to become the people our loved ones needed us to be. The “Michelangelo phenomenon” is the name given to the semi-conscious cycle of refinement and feedback whereby lovers who genuinely care what each other think gradually grow closer to their partner's original ideal of them. The problem is, we no longer live solely among those we know well. We're now forced to refine our personalities by the countless eyes of strangers. And this has begun to affect the process by which we develop our identities. Gradually we're all gaining online audiences, and we don't really know these people. We can only gauge who they are by what some of them post online, and what people post online is not indicative of who they really are. As such, the people we're increasingly becoming someone for are an abstract illusion. When influencers are analyzing audience feedback, they often find that their more outlandish behavior receives the most attention and approval, which leads them to recalibrate their personalities according to far more extreme social cues than those they'd receive in real life. In doing this they exaggerate the more idiosyncratic facets of their personalities, becoming crude caricatures of themselves. The caricature quickly becomes the influencer's distinct brand, and all subsequent attempts by the influencer to remain on-brand and fulfill audience expectations require them to act like the caricature. As the caricature becomes more familiar than the person, both to the audience and to the influencer, it comes to be regarded by both as the only honest expression of the influencer, so that any deviation from it soon looks and feels inauthentic. At that point the persona has eclipsed the person, and the audience has captured the influencer. The old Greek legends tell of Narcissus, a youth so handsome he became besotted by his own reflection. Unable to look away from his image in the surface of the waters, he fell still forever, and was transformed by the gods into a flower. Similarly, as influencers glimpse their idealized online personas reflected back at them on screens, they too are in danger of becoming eternally besotted by how they appear, and in so doing, forgetting who they were, or could be. III. The Prostitution of the Intellect Audience capture is a particular problem in politics, due to both phenomena being driven by popular approval. On Twitter I've watched many political influencers gradually become radicalized by their audiences, starting off moderate but following their increasingly extreme followers toward the fringes. One example is Louise Mensch, a once-respectable journalist and former Conservative politician who in 2016 published a story about Trump's alleged ties to Russia, which went viral. She subsequently gained a huge audience of #NotMyPresident #Resist types, and, encouraged by her new, indignant audience to uncover more evidence of Trump's corruption, she appears to have begun to view herself as the one who'd prove Russiagate and bring down the Donald. The immense responsibility she felt to her audience seems to have motivated her to see dramatic patterns in pure noise, and to concoct increasingly speculative conspiracy theories about Trump and Russia, such as the claim that Vladimir Putin assassinated Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart News, so his job would go to Trump ally Steve Bannon. When her former allies, such as the hacker known as "the Jester," expressed concern over her new trajectory toward fringe theories, she doubled down, accusing all her critics of being Trump shills or Putin shills. Another, more recent victim of audience capture is Maajid Nawaz. I've always liked Maajid, and as someone who once worked with the organization he founded, the counter terrorism think-tank Quilliam, I'm aware of how careful and considered he can be. Unfortunately, since the pandemic, he's been different. His descent began with him posting a few vague theories about the virus being a fraud perpetrated on an unsuspecting public, and after his posts went viral he found himself being inundated with new "Covid-skeptic" followers, who showered him with new leads to chase. In January, after he lost his position at the radio show LBC due to his increasingly careless theories about a secretive New World Order, he implied his firing was part of the conspiracy to silence the truth, and urged his loyal followers to subscribe to his Substack, as this was now his family's only source of income. His new audience proved to be generous with both money and attention, and his need to meet their expectations seems to have spurred him, consciously or unconsciously, to double down on his more extreme views. Now almost everything he writes about, from Covid to Ukraine, he somehow ties to the shadowy New World Order. Motivated by his audience to continually uncover new truths about the conspiracy, Maajid has been forced to scrape the barrel of claims. His recent work is his wildest yet, combining common tropes like resurrected Nazi eugenics programs, satanic rituals, and the Bilderberg meeting. Among the fields he now relies on for his evidence are... numerology. Twitter avatar for @MaajidNawaz Maajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz British MPs have begun voting on a motion of ‘no confidence' in the UK Parliament against Prime Minister Johnson. The vote commenced at: 6pm, on the 6th day, of the 6th month. No joke. آل عمران:[54] وَمَكَرُوا وَمَكَرَ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ Twitter avatar for @MaajidNawaz Maajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz 3 of our British MPs were at this dodgy af global Bilderberg meeting: Michael Gove (con) Tom Tugendhat (con) David Lammy (lab) Their attendance alone must be remembered if they ever seek leadership of their respective political parties and hence try to become PM of Britain https://t.co/EKohVzfaiN 6:52 PM ∙ Jun 6, 2022 957 Likes 287 Retweets There is clear value in investigating the corruption that pervades the misty pinnacles of power, but by defining himself by his audience's view of him as the uncoverer of a global conspiracy, Maajid has ensured he'll see evidence of the conspiracy in all things. Instead of performing real investigation, he is now merely playing the role of investigator for his audience, a role that requires drama rather than diligence, and which can lead only to his audience's desired conclusions. Muddying the Waters to Obscure the Reflection Maajid, Mensch, and Perry are far from the only victims of audience capture. Given how fundamental the looking glass self is to the development of our personalities, every influencer has likely been affected by it to some degree. And that includes me. I'm no authority on the degree to which my mind has been captured by you, my audience. But I do suspect that audience capture affects me far less than most influencers because I've taken specific steps to avoid it. I was aware of the pitfall long before I became an influencer. I wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself. It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what other people wanted me to be was to have a strong sense of who I wanted to be. And who I wanted to be was someone immune to audience capture, someone who thinks his own thoughts, decides his own destiny, and above all, never stops growing. I knew there were limits to my desired independence, because, whether we like it or not, we all become like the people we surround ourselves with. So I surrounded myself with the people I wanted to be like. On Twitter I cultivated a reasonable, open-minded audience by posting reasonable, open-minded tweets. The biggest jumps in my follower count came from my megathreads of mental models, which cover so many topics from so many perspectives that the people who appreciated them enough to follow me would need to be willing to consider new perspectives. Naturally these people came to view me as, and expected me to be, an independent thinker as open to learning and growing as themselves. In this way I ensured that my brand image—the person that my audience expects me to be—was in alignment with my ideal image—the person I want to be. So even though audience capture likely does affect me in some way, it only makes me more like the person I want to be. I hacked the system. My brand image is, admittedly, diffuse and weak. My Twitter bio is “saboteur of narratives,” and few people can say for sure what I'm about, other than vague things like “thinker” or “dumb fuck.” And that's how I like it. My vagueness makes me hard to pigeonhole, predict, and capture. For this same reason, I'm suspicious of those with strong, sharply delineated brands. Human beings are capricious and largely formless storms of idiosyncrasies, so a human only develops a clear and distinct identity through the artifice of performance. Nikocado has a clear and distinct identity, but its clarity and distinctness make it hard to escape. He may be a millionaire with legions of fans, but his videos, filled with complaints-disguised-as-jokes about his poor health, hardly make him seem happy. Unfortunately, salvation seems out of reach for him because his audience, or at least the audience he imagines, demands he be the same as he was yesterday. And even if he were to find the strength to break character and be himself again, he's been acting for so long that stopping would only make him feel like an imposter. This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth remembering that when you become who your audience expects at the expense of who you are, the affection you receive is not intended for you but for the character you're playing, a character you'll eventually tire of. So the next time you find yourself in the limelight of other people's gazes, remember that being someone often means being fake, and if you chase the approval of others, you may, in the end, lose the approval of yourself TikTok is a Time Bomb The ultimate weapon of mass distraction For thousands of years, humans sought to subjugate their enemies by inflicting pain, misery, and terror. They did this because these were the most paralyzing emotions they could consistently evoke; all it took was the slash of a sword or pull of a trigger. But as our understanding of psychology has developed, so it has become easier to evoke other emotions in complete strangers. Advances in the understanding of positive reinforcement, driven mostly by people trying to get us to click on links, have now made it possible to consistently give people on the other side of the world dopamine hits at scale. As such, pleasure is now a weapon; a way to incapacitate an enemy as surely as does pain. And the first pleasure-weapon of mass destruction may just be a little app on your phone called TikTok. I. The Smiling Tiger TikTok is the most successful app in history. It emerged in 2017 out of the Chinese video-sharing app Douyin and within three years it had become the most downloaded app in the world, later surpassing Google as the world's most visited web domain. TikTok's conquest of human attention was facilitated by the covid lockdowns of 2020, but its success wasn't mere luck. There's something about the design of the app that makes it unusually irresistible. Other platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, use recommendation algorithms as features to enhance the core product. With TikTok, the recommendation algorithm is the core product. You don't need to form a social network or list your interests for the platform to begin tailoring content to your desires, you just start watching, skipping any videos that don't immediately draw your interest. Tiktok uses a proprietary algorithm, known simply as the For You algorithm, that uses machine learning to build a personality profile of you by training itself on your watch habits (and possibly your facial expressions.) Since a TikTok video is generally much shorter than, say, a YouTube video, the algorithm acquires training data from you at a much faster rate, allowing it to quickly zero in on you. The result is a system that's unsurpassed at figuring you out. And once it's figured you out, it can then show you what it needs to in order to addict you. Since the For You algorithm favors only the most instantly mesmerizing content, its constructive videos—such as “how to” guides and field journalism—tend to be relegated to the fringes in favor of tasty but malignant junk info. Many of the most popular TikTokers, such as Charli D'Amelio, Bella Poarch, and Addison Rae, do little more than vapidly dance and lip-sync. Individually, such videos are harmless, but the algorithm doesn't intend to show you just one. When it receives the signal that it's got your attention, it doubles down on whatever it did to get it. This allows it to feed your obsessions, showing you hypnotic content again and again, reinforcing its imprint on your brain. This content can include promotion of self-harm and eating disorders, and uncritical encouragement of sex-reassignment surgery. There's evidence that watching such content can cause mass psychogenic illness: researchers recently identified a new phenomenon where otherwise healthy young girls who watched clips of Tourette's sufferers developed Tourette's-like tics. A more common way TikTok promotes irrational behavior is with viral trends and “challenges,” where people engage in a specific act of idiocy in the hope it'll make them TikTok-famous. Acts include licking toilets, snorting suntan lotion, eating chicken cooked in NyQuil, and stealing cars. One challenge, known as “devious licks”, encourages kids to vandalize property, while the “blackout challenge,” in which kids purposefully choke themselves with household items, has even led to several deaths, including a little girl a few days ago. As troublesome as TikTok's trends are, the app's greatest danger lies not in any specific content but in its general addictive nature. Studies on long term TikTok addiction don't yet exist for obvious reasons, but, based on what we know of internet addiction generally, we can extrapolate its eventual effects on habitual TikTokers. There's a substantial body of research showing a strong association between smartphone addiction, shrinkage of the brain's gray matter, and “digital dementia,” an umbrella term for the onset of anxiety and depression and the deterioration of memory, attention span, self-esteem, and impulse control (the last of which increases the addiction). These are the problems caused by internet addiction generally. But there's something about TikTok that makes it uniquely dangerous. In order to develop and maintain mental faculties like memory and attention span, one needs to practice using them. TikTok, more than any other app, is designed to give you what you want while requiring you to do as little as possible. It cares little who you follow or what buttons you click; its main consideration is how long you spend watching. Its reliance on machine learning rather than user input, combined with the fact that TikTok clips are so short they require minimal memory and attention span, makes browsing TikTok the most passive, uninteractive experience of all major platforms. If it's the passive nature of online content consumption that causes atrophy of mental faculties, then TikTok, as the most passively used platform, will naturally cause the most atrophy. Indeed many habitual TikTokers can already be found complaining on websites like Reddit about their loss of mental ability, a phenomenon that's come to be known as “TikTok brain.” If the signs are becoming apparent already, imagine what TikTok addiction will have done to young developing brains a decade from now. TikTok's capacity to stupefy people, both acutely by encouraging idiotic behavior, and chronically by atrophying the brain, should prompt consideration of its potential use as a new kind of weapon, one that seeks to neutralize enemies not by inflicting pain and terror, but by inflicting pleasure. Last month FBI Director Chris Wray warned that TikTok is controlled by a Chinese government that could “use it for influence operations.” So how likely is it that one such influence operation might include addicting young Westerners to mind-numbing content to create a generation of nincompoops? The first indication that the Chinese Communist Party is aware of TikTok's malign influence on kids is that it's forbidden access of the app to Chinese kids. The American tech ethicist Tristan Harris pointed out that the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, is a “spinach” version where kids don't see twerkers and toilet-lickers but science experiments and educational videos. Furthermore, Douyin is only accessible to kids for 40 minutes per day, and it cannot be accessed between 10pm and 6am. Has the CCP enforced such rules to protect its people from what it intends to inflict on the West? When one examines the philosophical doctrines behind the rules, it becomes clear that the CCP doesn't just believe that apps like TikTok make people stupid, but that they destroy civilizations. II. Seven Mouths, Eight Tongues China has been suspicious of Western liberal capitalism since the 1800s, when the country's initial openness led to the Western powers flooding China with opium. The epidemic of addiction, combined with the ensuing Opium Wars, accelerated the fall of the Qing Dynasty and led to the Century of Humiliation in which China was subject to harsh and unequal terms by Britain and the US. Mao is credited with eventually crushing the opium epidemic, and since then the view among many in China has been that Western liberalism leads to decadence and that authoritarianism is the cure. But one man has done more than anyone to turn this thesis into policy. His name is Wang Huning, and, despite not being well known outside China, he has been China's top ideological theorist for three decades, and he is now member number 4 of the seven-man Standing Committee—China's most powerful body. He advised China's former leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, and now he advises Xi Jinping, authoring many of his policies. In China he is called “guoshi” (国师: literally, “teacher of the nation”). Wang refuses to do press or to even speak with foreigners, but his worldview can be surmised from the books he wrote earlier in his life. In August 1988, Wang accepted an invitation to spend six months in the US, and traveled from state to state noting the way American society operates, examining its strengths and weaknesses. He recorded his findings in the 1991 book, America Against America, which has since become a key CCP text for understanding the US. The premise of the book is simple: the US is a paradox composed of contradictions: its two primary values—freedom and equality—are mutually exclusive. It has many different cultures, and therefore no overall culture. And its market-driven society has given it economic riches but spiritual poverty. As he writes in the book, “American institutions, culture and values oppose the United States itself.” For Wang, the US's contradictions stem from one source: nihilism. The country has become severed from its traditions and is so individualistic it can't make up its mind what it as a nation believes. Without an overarching culture maintaining its values, the government's regulatory powers are weak, easily corrupted by lobbying or paralyzed by partisan bickering. As such, the nation's progress is directed mostly by blind market forces; it obeys not a single command but a cacophony of three hundred million demands that lead it everywhere and nowhere. In Wang's view, the lack of a unifying culture puts a hard limit on the US's progress. The country is constantly producing wondrous new technologies, but these technologies have no guiding purpose other than their own proliferation. The result is that all technological advancement leads the US along one unfortunate trajectory: toward more and more commodification. Wang writes: “Human flesh, sex, knowledge, politics, power, and law can all become the target of commodification… Commodification, in many ways, corrupts society and leads to a number of serious social problems. These problems, in turn, can increase the pressure on the political and administrative system.” Thus, by turning everything into a product, Western capitalism devours every aspect of American culture, including the traditions that bind it together as a nation, leading to atomization and polarization. The commodification also devours meaning and purpose, and to plug the expanding spiritual hole that this leaves, Americans turn to momentary pleasures—drugs, fast food, and amusements—driving the nation further into decadence and decay. For Wang, then, the US's unprecedented technological progress is leading it into a chasm. Every new microchip, TV, and automobile only distracts and sedates Americans further. As Wang writes in his book, “it is not the people who master the technology, but the technology that masters the people.” Though these words are 30 years old, they could easily have been talking about social media addiction. Wang theorized that the conflict between the US's economic system and its value system made it fundamentally unstable and destined for ever more commodification, nihilism, and decadence, until it finally collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. To prevent China's own technological advancement leading it down the same perilous path, Wang proposed an extreme solution: neo-authoritarianism. In his 1988 essay, “The Structure of China's Changing Political Culture,” Wang wrote that the only way a nation can avoid the US's problems is by instilling “core values”—a national consensus of beliefs and principles rooted in the traditions of the past and directed toward a clear goal in the future. Such a consensus could eventually ward off nihilism and decadence, but cultivating it would in turn require the elimination of nihilism and decadence. This idea has been central to President Xi's governance strategy, which has emphasized “core socialist values” like civility, patriotism, and integrity. So how has the push for these socialist core values affected the CCP's approach to social media? The creator of TikTok and CEO of Bytedance, Zhang Yiming, originally intended for the content on TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, to be determined purely by popularity. As such, Douyin started off much like TikTok is now, with the content dominated by teenagers singing and dancing. In April 2018, the CCP began action against Zhang. Its media watchdog, the National Radio and Television Administration, ordered the removal from Chinese app stores of Bytedance's then-most popular app, Toutiao, and its AI news aggregator, Neihan Duanzi, citing their platforming of “improper” content. Zhang then took to social media to offer a groveling public apology, stating: "Our products took the wrong path, and content appeared that was incommensurate with socialist core values." Shortly after, Bytedance announced it would recruit thousands more people to moderate content, and, according to CNN, in the subsequent job ads it stated a preference for CCP members with “strong political sensitivity.” The CCP's influence over Bytedance has only grown since then. Last year, the Party acquired a “golden share” in Bytedance's Beijing entity, and one of its officials, Wu Shugang, took one of the company's three board seats. The CCP's intrusion into Bytedance's operations is part of a broader strategy by Xi, called the “Profound Transformation”, which seeks to clear space for the instituting of core socialist values by ridding China of “decadent” online content. In August 2021, a statement appeared across Chinese state media calling for an end to TikTok-style “tittytainment” for fear that “our young people will lose their strong and masculine vibes and we will collapse.” In the wake of that statement, there have been crackdowns on “sissy-men” fashions, “digital drugs” like online gaming, and “toxic idol worship.” Consequently, many online influencers have been forcibly deprived of their influence, with some, such as the movie star Zhao Wei, having their entire presence erased from the Chinse web. For Xi and the CCP, eliminating “decadent” TikTok-style content from China is a matter of survival, because such content is considered a herald of nihilism, a regression of humans back to beasts, a symptom of the West's terminal illness that must be prevented from metastasizing to China. And yet, while cracking down on this content domestically, China has continued to allow its export internationally as part of Xi's “digital Silk Road” (数字丝绸之路). TikTok is known to censor content that displeases Beijing, such as mentions of Falun Gong or Tiananmen Square, but otherwise it has free rein to show Westerners what it wants; “tittytainment” and “sissy men” are everywhere on the app. So why the hypocritical disparity in rules? Is the digital Silk Road intended as poetic justice for the original Silk Road, whereby the Western powers preached Christian values while trafficking chemical TikTok—opium—into China? Since Wang and Xi believe the West is too decadent to survive, they may have opted to take the Taoist path of wu wei (無為), which is to say, sit back and let the West's appetites take it where they will. But there's another, more sinister and effective approach they may have adopted. To understand it, we must consider one final piece of the puzzle: an amphetamine-fueled philosopher who lived in my hometown. III. The Matricide Laboratory At first glance the British philosopher Nick Land could hardly be more different from Wang Huning. Wang rose to prominence by being dour, discreet, and composed, while Land rose to prominence by ranting about cyborg apocalypses while out of his mind on weed and speed. In the late 1990s Land moved into a house once owned by the Satanist libertine Aleister Crowley (half a mile from where I grew up), and there he apparently binged on drugs and scrawled occult diagrams on the walls. At nearby Warwick University where he taught, his lectures were often bizarre (one infamous “lesson” consisted of Land lying on the floor, croaking into a mic, while frenetic jungle music pulsed in the background.) Land and Wang were not just polar opposites in personality; they also operated at opposite ends of the political spectrum. While Wang would go on to be the top ideological theorist of the Chinese Communist Party, Land would become the top theorist (with Curtis Yarvin) of the influential network of far-right bloggers, NRx. And yet, despite their opposite natures, Land and Wang would develop almost identical visions of liberal capitalism as an all-commodifying, all devouring force, driven by the insatiable hunger of blind market forces, and destined to finally eat Western civilization itself. Land viewed Western liberal capitalism as a kind of AI that's reached the singularity; in other words, an AI that's grown beyond the control of humans and is now unstoppably accelerating toward inhuman ends. As Land feverishly wrote in his 1995 essay, “Meltdown:” “The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway.” Land's drug-fueled prose is overwrought, so to simplify his point, Western capitalism can be compared to a “paperclip maximizer,” a hypothetical AI programmed by a paperclip business to produce as many paperclips as possible, which leads it to begin recycling everything on earth into paperclips (commodities). When the programmers panic and try to switch it off, the AI turns them into paperclips, since being switched off would stop it fulfilling its goal of creating as many paperclips as possible. Thus, the blind application of short term goals leads to long term ruin. Land believed that, since the runaway AI we call liberal capitalism commodifies everything, including even criticisms of it (which are necessarily published for profit), it cannot be opposed. Every attack on it becomes part of it. Thus, if one wishes to change it, the only way is to accelerate it along its trajectory. As Land stated in a later, more sober writing style: “The point of an analysis of capitalism, or of nihilism, is to do more of it. The process is not to be critiqued. The process is the critique, feeding back into itself, as it escalates. The only way forward is through, which means further in.” —A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism (2017) This view, that the current system must be accelerated to be transformed, has since become known as “accelerationism.” For Land, acceleration is not just a destructive force but also a creative one; he came to believe that all democracies accelerate toward ruin but a visionary despot unfettered by the concerns of the masses could accelerate a country to prosperity. Land's own life followed the same course he envisioned for the liberal West; following years of high productivity, he fell into nihilism and the decadence of rampant drug use, which drove him to a nervous breakdown. Upon recovering in 2002, he embraced authoritarianism, moved to Shanghai, and began writing for Chinese state media outlets like China Daily and the Shanghai Star. A few years after Land moved to China, talk of accelerationism began to emerge on the Chinese web, where it's become known by its Chinese name, jiasuzhuyi (加速主义). The term has caught on among Chinese democracy advocates, many of whom view the CCP as the runaway AI, hurtling toward greater tyranny; they even refer to Xi as “Accelerator-in-Chief” (总加速师). Domestically, Chinese democracy activists try to accelerate the CCP's authoritarianism ad absurdum; one tactic is to swamp official tip-off lines with reports of minor or made-up infractions, with the intent of breaking the Party by forcing it to enforce all of its own petty rules. As for the CCP itself, it's known to have viewed former US president Donald Trump as the “Accelerator-in-Chief,” or, more accurately, “Chuan Jianguo” (川建国: literally “Build China Trump”) because he was perceived as helping China by accelerating the West's decline. For this reason, support of him was encouraged. The CCP is also known to have engaged in jiasuzhuyi more directly; for instance, during the 2020 US race riots, China used Western social media platforms to douse accelerant over US racial tensions. But the use of TikTok as an accelerant is a whole new scale of accelerationism, one much closer to Land's original, apocalyptic vision. Liberal capitalism is about making people work in order to obtain pleasurable things, and for decades it's been moving toward shortening the delay between desire and gratification, because that's what consumers want. Over the past century the market has taken us toward ever shorter-form entertainment, from cinema in the early 1900s, to TV mid-century, to minutes-long YouTube videos, to seconds-long TikTok clips. With TikTok the delay between desire and gratification is almost instant; there's no longer any patience or effort needed to obtain the reward, so our mental faculties fall into disuse and disrepair. And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West's youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors. We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling. Though the decline likely has several causes, it began with the first generation to grow up with widespread TVs in homes, and common sense suggests it's at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state. If you don't use it, you lose it. And even those still willing to use their brains are at risk of having their efforts foiled by social media, which seems to be affecting not just kids' abilities but also their aspirations; in a survey asking American and Chinese children what job they most wanted, the top answer among Chinese kids was “astronaut,” and the top answer among American kids was “influencer.” If we continue along our present course, the resulting loss of brainpower in key fields could, years from now, begin to harm the West economically. But, more importantly, if it did it would help discredit the very notion of Western liberalism itself, since there is no greater counterargument to a system than to see it destroy itself. And so the CCP would benefit doubly from this outcome: ruin the West and refute it; two birds with one stone (or as they say in China, 箭双雕: one arrow, two eagles.) So, the CCP has both the means and the motive to help the West defeat itself, and part of this could conceivably involve the use of TikTok to accelerate liberal capitalism by closing the gap between desire and gratification. Now, it could be argued that we have no hard evidence of the CCP's intentions, only a set of indications. However, ultimately the CCP's intentions are irrelevant. Accelerationism can't alter an outcome, only hasten it. And TikTok, whether or not it's actively intended as a weapon, is only moving the West further along the course it's long been headed: toward more effortless pleasure, and resulting cognitive decline. The problem, therefore, is not China, but us. America Against America. If TikTok is not a murder weapon, then it's a suicide weapon. China has given the West the means to kill itself, but the death wish is wholly the West's. After all, TikTok dominated our culture as a result of free market forces—the very thing we live by. Land and Wang are correct that the West being controlled by everyone means it's controlled by no one, and without brakes or a steering wheel we're at the market's mercy. Of course, democracies do have some regulatory power. Indian lawmakers banned TikTok in 2020, and US lawmakers are now considering the same. However, while this may stop the theft of our data, it won't stop the theft of our attention; if TikTok is banned then another short-form video site will just take its place. Effortless dopamine hits are what consumers want, and capitalism always tries to give consumers what they want. Anticipating the demand, YouTube has added its own TikTok-style “YouTube Shorts” format, and Twitter recently implemented its own version of TikTok's For You algorithm. The market is a greater accelerator than China could ever hope to be. So what's the solution? Land and Wang may be right about the illness, but they're wrong about the cure. It's true that we in the West have little left of the traditions that once tied us together, and in their absence all that unites us are our animal hungers. But Wang's belief that meaning and purpose can be miraculously imposed on us all by a strongman leader is just a fantasy that has littered history with failed experiments. Sure, democracies are vulnerable because there's no one controlling their advancement, but autocracies are vulnerable precisely for the opposite reason: they're controlled by people, which is to say, by woefully myopic apes. China is currently suffering from the myopia of Xi's zero-covid policy, which has ravaged the country's economy, and from the disastrous one-child policy that's led to China's current population crisis. For all our problems, we'd be unwise to exchange the soft tyranny of dopamine for the hard tyranny of despots. That leaves only one solution: the democratic one. In a democracy responsibility is also democratized, so parents must look out for their own kids. There's a market for this, too: various brands of parental controls can be set on devices to limit kids' access (though many of these, including TikTok's own controls, can be easily bypassed.) But ultimately these are short term measures. In the long term the only way to prevent digital dementia is to raise awareness of the neurological ruin wrought by apps like TikTok, exposing their ugliness so they fall out of fashion like cigarettes. If the weakness of liberalism is its openness, then this is also its strength; word can travel far in democracies. We'll surely sound like alarmists; TikTok destroys so gradually that it seems harmless. But if the app is a time-bomb that'll wreck a whole generation years from now, then we can't wait till its effects are apparent before acting, for then it will be too late. The clock is ticking. Tik. Tok… I just shit and cum. FAQ What does this mean? 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In this special episode UPGRADE 100 is addressing the concerns regarding security and privacy publicly expressed by the US officials and more recently by the European Union's regarding the use of the TikTok application. Our guest is: Jakub OLEK - Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, TikTok Central and Eastern Europe Jakub is a government relations and market access expert with a law degree and international experience gained in Europe, Africa, Asia and Middle East. Previously he was working for Lime and Santander. ____________ IMPORTANT: The discussion you are watching was conducted before the TikTok CEO's hearing in the US Congress. So treat this podcast as such. ____________ TALKING POINTS: ___ In the advertising platform we can target between 7 and 8 million accounts in Romania. What other official figures and data can give us an idea of how big TikTok actually is? How strong is TikTok today in Romania, and how is Romania on the EU map from the perspective of TikTok - without any unnecessary formality? ___ A former TikTok employee recently testified before the US Congress that the app is connected to another ByteDance app, Toutiao, and that this leads to the transfer of data from US and EU citizens to China. What is the company's official defense on this subject? ___ TikTok employees have used data they had internal access to in order to find details about BuzzFeed and Financial Times journalists. The story has been amplified in the media and eventually we found out that TikTok itself was also a victim, as those employees had infiltrated the company - at least that's the official story. How safe can a platform like TikTok be under these conditions? It is possible? ___Probably few people know that besides TikTok, ByteDance operates many other products, especially in China and Asia, and it's somewhat normal to use common technology - however, your official discourse seems to support the opposite. How independent is TikTok from Douyin and your other applications, actually? ___ One of the systemic problems of global players is that they do not allow us to verify the data through independent, third-party tools. Local industry is not believed by any agency or client when it claims that a site has a certain level of traffic. This is measured independently, as done by the BRAT organization, of which I happen to be the president in Romania. Why does TikTok not do this? Why should we believe you when you report on views, clicks, etc.? ___ Facebook has done a terrible job in the fight against fake news, rather amplifying the algorithmic lie than limiting it, and Google hasn't had too much to comment as a good portion of the traffic that came out of Facebook also helped increase Google's revenue through tools like the Google Display Network. How is TikTok preventing itself from being the next propagator of fake news? ___ How does TikTok protect users' personal information and prevent it from being accessed by unauthorized parties? How can we know that the Chinese government or other governments are not asking for – and receiving – data from you? ___ How does TikTok handle reports of cyberbullying or harassment on the platform, and what steps are taken to ensure the safety of its users? What should people know about this? How much is AI how much is done by actual people? ___ How does TikTok ensure compliance with GDPR regulations, especially given its large user base in Europe? Is this feasible? By the way, how many users does TikTok have in EU countries? ___ Can you explain how TikTok's algorithm works and how it ensures fairness and transparency for all users? ___ Can you explain how TikTok's data collection practices differ from those of other social media platforms, if at all? What data do you collect? ___ What is the key message you would like to reach the authorities in Romania and EU and what is the message that needs to reach the public? #Upgrade100 #Podcast #TikTok #EuropeanUnion
Épisode 943 : Chaque années, de nouveaux réseaux sociaux voient le jour. Si certains sont de pales copies, d'autre arrivent sur le marché avec un point de vue différent.C'est le cas de cette nouvelle plateforme appelée Artifact.Artifact se situe à mi-chemin entre TikTok et Google news et promet un expérience très différente des plateformes sociales actuelles. Pour rajouter une couche d'intérêt au projet, Artifact a été lancé par Kevin Systrom et Mike Krieger les co-fondateurs d'Instagram. Et du coup évidemment on a testé pour vous. Bougez pas on vous raconte.L'application a été lancé en Janvier 2023 sur invitation uniquement. Elle est accessible à tous depuis le mois de Février.—Une IA d'apprentissage automatique au coeur de l'algorithme d'ArtifactL'apprentissage automatique sur lequel repose une grande partie de l'algorithme d'Artifact a été inventé en 2017 chez Google.SourcePlus vous interagissez avec l'application, plus elle apprend quelles news vous intéressent. Elle mesure les clics, le temps de lecture et d'autres signaux, comme si vous avez partagé le contenu avec des amis.Systrom explique que n'utiliser que les clics comme le font encore certains algorithmes sociaux est une erreur puisqu'il résulte forcément dans des stratégies de baitclic.—Le système de recommandation d'Artifact il est directement inspiré de Toutiao. Toutiao c'est une application de news chinoise créée par ByteDance. C'est grâce à l'algorithme développé pour Toutiao que ByteDance a pu lancer TikTok.—Quand je me connecte la première fois à l'application je renseigne mes sujets de prédilection.SourceDans la durée je peux aussi indiquer à l'application si un article me plait ou non en cochant sur un pouce haut ou pouce en bas.—Artifact est en réalité un feed reader évoluéD'où viennent les articles. Et bien d'une certain nombre de site travaillant en partenariat avec l'application. On trouve des The Verge, des Techchrunch, Engadget, The NewYorker… La liste est sérieuse.Parmi les bonnes surprises, figure la possibilité d'ajouter ses propres abonnements à des titres de presse : une fois un abonnement renseigné, alors la source apparaît en priorité dans son flux. Sans aucun abonnement, l'appli se cantonne à des articles gratuits.—Un principe de gamification au coeur de l'application de news ArtifactEn tant qu'utilisateurs de la plateforme vous gagnez des badges en fonction de votre usage. Plus vous lisez et plus l'application vous crédite. De Beginner vous passez à Explorer et vous pouvez même rentrer dans les top readers.A quoi ça sert ? A renforcer votre activité au coeur de la plateforme et à vous indiquer le niveau de compréhension de l'IA. C'est simple plus vous lisez et plus l'IA apprend ce qui vous plait et ajuste ses recommandations.—Une application de news qui incorpore du socialSur Artfiact je peux inviter mes potes à rejoindre l'application.Je ne peux pas voir ce qu'ils lisent mais l'IA va prendre en compte leurs lectures et me les proposer. A terme, Artifact ne se contentera pas de personnaliser les actualités et de répondre à vos intérêts, mais fournira également un lieu pour discuter de ces sujets.—Le lancement d'Artifact est un vrai challengeIls sont chauds les fondateurs d'artéfact. Avec cette plateforme, ils vont à la baston avec des géants : Google news, Apple News et évidemment Meta.Selon les données de Pew Research , environ un tiers des adultes américains s'informent régulièrement sur Facebook, ce qui représente un défi pour toute nouvelle startup sur le marché de l'information.—Une trends autour de la socialisation de l'information ?Il existe une trend forte autour de la socialisation de l'information et on voit émerger pas mal de projets passionnants en ce moment.L'un d'eux est français. Il s'agit de l'application Swen.Swen le TikTok français de l'infoSourceC'est une application 100% vidéo au format 9:16. En nouant des partenariats avec des médias vérifiés, SWEN propose de l'information fiable à consommer sans modération. Écologie, politique, culture, sport… Là aussi un algorithme de prédiction recommande des contenus au plus proche de mes centres d'intérêt.. . . Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com/. Ensemble, nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Ensemble, nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.
EP44 China Internet Landscape and Digital Giants Part 39 Bytedance (字节跳动) ก่อตั้งขึ้นโดยนาย Zhang Yiming 张一鸣 ในเดือนมีนาคมปี 2012 มีสำนักงานใหญ่อยู่ที่กรุงปักกิ่ง เป็นหนึ่งในบริษัทเทคโนโลยีรายแรก ๆ ในยุคนั้น ที่ใช้เทคโนโลยีปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (AI) ผสานเข้ากับ Mobile Internet Zhang Yiming เริ่มศึกษาด้านไมโครอิเล็กทรอนิกส์(microelectronics) ในปี 2001 ก่อนที่จะเปลี่ยนสาขาวิชาเอกเป็นวิศวกรรมซอฟต์แวร์ และสำเร็จการศึกษาในปี 2005 จากมหาวิทยาลัย Nankai 南开大学 เมืองเทียนจิน หลังจากจบการศึกษา Zhang Yiming ก็ได้เริ่มงานในสตาร์ทอัพชื่อว่า 酷讯(Kuxun) ที่แห่งนี้ได้ช่วยให้เขาได้เรียนรู้ทักษะอันมีค่าซึ่งได้สร้างรากฐานให้กับบริษัทของเขาเองในอนาคต วิสัยทัศน์ของเขาที่มีต่อบริษัทไม่ได้จำกัดอยู่แค่ในจีนเช่นเดียวกับผู้ประกอบการส่วนใหญ่ เขาวางแผนที่จะขยายบริษัทไปทั่วโลก อย่างไรก็ตาม ผู้ร่วมทุนส่วนใหญ่ไม่ค่อยเห็นค่านักกับวิสัยทัศน์นี้ แม้จะมีความพยายามหลายครั้ง แต่เขาล้มเหลวในการหาทุนจนกระทั่ง SIG เห็นศักยภาพของโครงการและเริ่มลงทุนใน series A ช่วงเดือน July 2012 ด้วยเงินลงทุนจำนวน $1m ระบบการกระจายข้อมูลอัจฉริยะ (Intelligent distribution of content) ให้"ผู้ใช้นับล้าน" เพื่อตอบสนองความต้องการในการอ่านของยุค Mobile Internet ที่เน้นอ่านแบบผิวเผิน users มักจะไม่มีเป้าหมายที่ชัดเจนก่อนอ่าน และการอ่านมีหน้าที่เพียงแค่เป็นการฆ่าเวลา ดังนั้น feature จะเป็นแบบ "ข้อมูลหาคน" มากกว่า คนเข้าหาข้อมูล ปี 2014 , 2 ปีหลังจากการก่อตั้ง Toutiao ผู้ใช้งานแบบรายวัน (DAUs) มีสูงกว่า 13 million users แล้ว รายละเอียดทั้งหมดติดตามรับฟังได้ใน EP 44
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI takeoff story: a continuation of progress by other means, published by Edouard Harris on the AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Vladimir Mikulik for suggesting that I write this, and to Rohin Shah and Daniel Kokotajlo for kindly providing feedback. Prologue This is a story about a universe a lot like ours. In this universe, the scaling hypothesis — which very roughly says that you can make an AI smarter just by making it bigger — turns out to be completely right. It's gradually realized that advances in AI don't arise from conceptual breakthroughs or sophisticated deep learning architectures. Just the opposite: the simpler the architecture, the better it turns out to perform at scale. Past a certain point, clever model-building was just slowing down progress. Researchers in this universe discover a rough rule of thumb: each neural network architecture has an intrinsic maximum potential intelligence, or “capability”. When you train a network on a problem, how close it gets to reaching its potential capability depends on two limiting factors: 1) the size and diversity of its dataset; and 2) the amount of compute that's used to train it. Training a network on a quadrillion games of tic-tac-toe won't make it smart, but training a network on a quadrillion-word corpus of text might just do it. Even data cleaning and quality control don't matter too much: as long as you have scale, if you train your system long enough, it learns to separate signal from noise automatically. Generally, the more parameters a neural network has, the higher its potential capability. Neural nets with simple architectures also have a higher potential capability than nets with more sophisticated architectures do. This last observation takes the research community longer to absorb than you might expect — it's a bitter lesson, after all — so the groups that internalize it first have an early edge. Frontier AI projects begin to deemphasize architecture innovations and any but the most basic data preprocessing. They focus instead on simple models, huge datasets, hard problems, and abundant compute. Initial progress is slowed somewhat by a global semiconductor shortage that increases the cost of running large GPU workloads. Within a year or so, though, this bottleneck clears, and the pace of advance accelerates. Our story opens just as the world's supply chains are getting back to normal. It begins with Chinese content apps. ByteDance launches an experiment to auto-generate some of the articles on their Toutiao news app using a language model. Initially this is ignored in the West partly because of the language barrier, but also because the articles just aren't very good. But after a few months, their quality improves noticeably. Within a year of their launch, auto-generated articles make up the bulk of Toutiao's inventory. Shortly afterward, ByteDance subsidiary Douyin launches auto-generated videos. These begin tentatively, with a handful of AI-generated creators people refer to as “synthetics”. Synthetics are wildly popular, and the program is quickly expanded to TikTok, Douyin's sister app for users outside mainland China. Popularity explodes after TikTok rolls out super-personalization: everyone sees a different video, and each video is personalized just for you based on your past viewing history. In short order, personalized synthetics roll out across all of TikTok's regions. Since human creators can't compete, they get downgraded by TikTok's recommendation algorithm, which heavily optimizes for viewing time. It's hotly debated whether TikTok's synthetic videos contain covert political propaganda — studies of the algorithm are hard to reproduce, since each user's feed is completely personalized — but experts are concerned. Social networks find themselves at a disadvantage, since human-generated post...
Laura y Santiago, que inicialmente le tenían pereza a TikTok, abrieron su cuenta y se leyeron todo un libro para darle sentido a la app que más rápido ha crecido en los últimos años. Este episodio habla sobre algoritmos, la democratización del video y la llegada de gigantes chinos al Internet global. El libro «The Attention Factory» es la gran fuente de esta conversación. Este episodio es traído a ti gracias a: ▸La Tienda del Café. Si quieres probar cafés deliciosos de Colombia, visita la Tienda del Café y usa el código COSASDEINTERNET al pagar para tener un descuento en tu compra. Recomendamos especialmente sus suscripciones. Conoce más en: www.latiendadelcafe.co ▸ Mecenas de Cosas de Internet. Más de 150 personas nos apoyan con una donación cada vez que publicamos un episodio (y todavía estamos tratando de hacer que el proyecto sea sostenible). Si quieres unirte, visita www.cosasdeinternet.fm/mecenas. Notas del episodio: Según el estudio «The Fastest Growing Brands of 2020», de Morning Consult, TikTok fue la tercera marca que más creció del 2020, después de Zoom y Peacock. «Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance», de Matthew Brennan. Este libro es central, de ahí sacamos la mayoría de datos que compartimos en la conversación. Entrevista a Matthew Brennan. Usamos para sacar un par de citas en audio, pero toda la conversación sobre su libro es interesante. Zhang Yiming es el fundador de ByteDance, la empresa que creó TikTok. El primer gran éxito de ByteDance fue la aplicación Toutiao, que se enfoca en reunir noticias. La aplicación original para videos cortos con música no fue TikTok ni Musical.ly sino Mindie. Este video con el fundador es una joya. «¿Qué es Musical.ly?» En 2017 ByteDance compró Music.ly y al poco tiempo los usuarios de esta plataforma pasaron a ser parte de TikTok. «The Inside Story Of TikTok's Tumultuous Rise—And How It Defeated Trump» En TikTok es muy fácil hacer videos y hay una cultura de «remix», de copiar y transformar. Este video lo dice mucho mejor que nosotros.
Водещите световни медии от доста време осъзнаха необходимостта да влязат в крак с Четвъртата вълна в развитието на дигиталния свят. Голям част от тях започнаха да прилагат и дори да разработван със собствени сили редица инструменти използващи машинно самообучение в полза на редакторите и потребителите. В този епизод на "Черната кутия" разглеждам добрите примери на агенция Ройтерс, Би Би Си, РАИ, както и на емблематичната китайска компания Toutiao.
Today, we invite one of our special friends Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory; The story of TikTok and China's ByteDance”. He is often featured in global media and has delivered presentations on Chinese digital innovation to global firms such as Google, Tencent, DHL, etc. Having monitored the Chinese tech ecosystem closely for a number of years, Matthew is well-positioned to answer our questions, dig deeper into ByteDance's remarkable success, and share his insights on the mobile-tech environment in the East and West. We will also discuss the digital marketing schemes partaking in all startups and all kinds of business sizes. Last but not the least, some key insights on future tech innovations that can be observed from the ByteDance case.You can find the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Factory-TikTok-Chinas-ByteDance/dp/B08L3NW6VM/ Show Notes:02:09 Introduce Matthew Brennan03:20 Why ByteDance is able to build a global product, TikTok05:57 TikTok, the product and technology09:42 TikTok's from-zero-to-one journey16:30 TikTok's monetization model and their new initiatives22:20 Lessons from the success of ByteDance30:40 Contact MatthewMany thanks to our guest Matthew Brennan; host Ryan Shuken; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.comShare, subscribe, review, enjoy!To join our listener group on WeChat, please add SOSV Helper (WeChat ID: sosvhero) and ask for the group invitation.Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-startup-pulseEmail us: team@chinastartuppulse.com
You likely think of TikTok as merely a form of entertainment during quarantine, but the platform has been around since 2016, and its parent company, Bytedance, is almost a decade old. While TikTok isn't the first of its kind, it has taken teenage society by storm.If you have any questions or comments about the information provided in this episode, please contact us at thehistoryof365@gmail.com.Click to donate here.Please check out our Instagram here.Resources:Brennan, Matthew. Attention Factory. 2020. ebook.When the U.S. Military Banned TikTokMore About When the U.S. Military Banned TikTokAbout the Great Firewall of ChinaBritannica on FascismAbout TikTok Illegally Collecting Teenagers' InformationAbout When Microsoft Almost Bought TikTokAbout CCB
Tik Tok เป็นแพลตฟอร์มแบ่งปันวิดีโอสั้นชั้นนำซึ่งมีผู้ใช้มากกว่า 800 ล้านคนใน 150 ประเทศทั่วโลก Tik Tok (DouYin ในประเทศจีน) เริ่มต้นจากประเทศจีนในปี 2016 อนุญาตให้ผู้ใช้แชร์วิดีโอความยาว 15 วินาที บริษัท แม่ของ Tik Tok คือ ByteDance ซึ่งก่อตั้งขึ้นในปี 2012 โดยมีบริการอื่น ๆ เช่น Toutiao, Lark, Xigua video และ Helo และเบื้องหลังการเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็วของพวกเขาก็คือพลังของเทคโนโลยี AI นั่นเอง เลือกฟังกันได้เลยนะครับ อย่าลืมกด Follow ติดตาม PodCast ช่อง Geek Forever’s Podcast ของผมกันด้วยนะครับ ผู้สนับสนุน.. ╔═════════════════════════╗ ติดตั้ง Solar Rooftop สำหรับธุรกิจของคุณ วันนี้พร้อมโปรโมชั่นสุดคุ้ม DNA Power CO.,LTD. รับติดตั้งระบบโซล่าร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้าน, โรงงาน, อาคารพาณิชย์ และสิ่งปลูกสร้างทุกประเภท. รับประกันแผงโซล่าร์ 20 ปี / อินเวอร์เตอร์ 5 ปี / ประกันการติดตั้ง 2 ปี คืนทุนภายใน 4 ปีครึ่ง ╚═════════════════════════╝ ⚡ ฟรี!ค่าสำรวจหน้างาน ⚡ ฟรี!ค่าประเมินราคา ⚡ ฟรีค่าขออนุญาตติดตั้ง
TikTok est une réussite EXCEPTIONNELLE. Tellement exceptionnelle que c'est cette entreprise, seulement créee en Septembre 2017 que la BBC utilise pour défendre l'idée que je partage que c'est la Chine désormais qui façonne le futur de la technologie Comme toujours, il y a beaucoup à apprendre des moteurs de cette réussite, du bon, comme du moins bon. Dans cet épisode au format un peu spécial, je vous partage mon analyse sur les 5 clés du succès de TikTok, l'occasion de les appliquer à votre business Aujourd'hui, vous apprendrez Pourquoi TikTok est elle particulièrement satisfaite de la victoire de Joe Biden ? Pourquoi TikTok était en difficulté à cause de Donald Trump ? Quelle solution avait été trouvée entre le gouvernement, Oracle, Wallmart et TikTok ? Est ce que la chance est le facteur X de TikTok ? Quel est le rôle de l'algorithme de TikTok ? Pourquoi peut-on considérer qu'il est ultra performant à la fois en matière de rétention et de viralité ? Pourquoi ByteDance n'est pas réellement un éditeur de réseaux sociaux comme vous l'entendez ? Que sait-on de cet algorithme et de son fonctionnement? Comment TikTok décide de qui va voir quoi ? Pourquoi c'est surtout l'intelligence artificielle qui va décider de qui voit quoi ? Quelle est l'incroyable promesse de TikTok à son utilisateur Lambda ? Comment, avec les Challenges, TikTok résout 3 grands problèmes des réseaux sociaux ? Pourquoi TikTok n'a presque pas besoin de stars ? Pourquoi Tiktok est client centric mais pas client first ? Et pourquoi, c'est un gros avantage vis à vis de ses concurrents ? Pourquoi le positivisme fonctionne aussi pour les sujets sérieux ? Pourquoi cela ouvre des possibilités pour l'éducation ? Quelles sont les critiques faites à TikTok vis à vis des populations vulnérables ? Pourquoi TikTok limite l'exposition de certains profils ? Pourquoi TikTok est en avance sur la modération ? Pourquoi la "censure" appliquée par Douyin est elle un atout pour TikTok ? Comment les comparaisons des performances de modération entre TikTok, Facebook et Youtube sont clairement en la faveur du Chinois ? Qu'est ce qui fait de TikTok une institution ? Pourquoi TikTok est-elle plus forte qu'Alipay et Wechat ? Quels comportements de pirate ont permis à TikTok de grossir si vite ? Pourquoi ByteDance est une alternative crédible au super App ? Qu'est ce que la stratégie de l'archipel ?
L'éducation est un secteur qui aiguise les appétits de bien des acteurs, y compris ceux que l'on attendrait pas. L'un de ceux qui surprend le plus est ByteDance, le propriétaire de TikTok qui est un acteur très actif sur le sujet. Il s'agit pourtant d'un mouvement stratégique majeur pour cette société qui est tranquillement en train de changer le monde, vraiment. Et pour ce faire, la société se lance dans le matériel éducatif, une petite révolution pour elle. Le sommaire et les extraits sont ici : https://bit.ly/3rJnsD8 Dans cet épisode, vous apprendrez : Ce qu'est la Edtech ? Qu'est ce que Dali dans l'écosystème ByteDance et quel est son poids ? Qu'est ce que la lampe intelligente de tutorat de Bytedance Pourquoi l'entrée de ByteDance dans le matériel connecté est un choix stratégique très fort Comment ByteDance valorise son patrimoine humain même en cas d'échec Quelles sont les fonctionnalités clés de la Dali Smart Work ? Et quelles sont les critiques et les sujets d'inquiétudes ? Vous saurez aussi si elle est une réussite commerciale ? Quels sont les grands chiffres de l'éducation online en Chine ? et du matériel éducatif ? Quels sont les différents services éducatifs lancés par Bytedance ? Quels investissements ont été consentis par Bytedance pour GoGoKid ? Est ce que cela a marché et déstabilisé VIPKids ? Qu'est ce que l'application de connaissance HaoHao XueXi ? Pourquoi c'est une rupture de modèle économique pour ByteDance ? Qu'est ce que les initiatives Hope and Risins, Quing Be, Boxuei et Open Language Qu'est ce que Dali Ketang ? Quel est la stratégie #eduToc promue par Nikhil Gandhi pour carte le marché indien ? Comment Google et Sundar Pichai veulent contrecarrer les plans de TikTok en Inde ? Quelles sont les deux compétences clés de Tiktok pour ce nouveau marché ? Comment ByteDance s'implique aussi dans le livre audio ? Pourquoi cela aide-t-il à sa rétention ? Pourquoi cela maximise "sa guerre" avec Tencent ?
ByteDance est une société peu connue, au mieux sait on que c'est la société propriétaire du réseau social phénomène TikTok Et pourtant, elle concurrence très sérieusement BATX et GAFAM et est en mesure de modifier la géopolitique digitale mondiale. Pourquoi ? parce qu'elle impacte déjà au quotidien la façon de s'informer et d'apprendre de plus de 1,5 milliards de personnes...Et que ce n'est que le début... Dans cet épisode, vous apprendrez : Pourquoi ByteDance a acheté un service de paiement ? Quelles autres initiatives étonnantes (micro-crédit, gestion de patrimoine, lancement de son propre smartphone) ont été aussi lancé ? Qu'est ce que Toutiao Search, qui va concurrencer Baidou, le Google Chinois ?, Qui est le fondateur de Bytedance, Zhang Yiming, le Elon Musk chinois ? Pourquoi faut-il absolument scruter cet écosystème de plateformes ? Pourquoi TikTok est loin d'être le seul produit star de ByteDance ? Et pourquoi le vrai métier de ByteDance, c'est l'Intelligence Artificielle (et surtout le Machine Learning) Quels sont les indicateurs économiques renversants de cette start-up ? Chiffre d'affaire, bénéfice, trésorerie, Quelles sont les valorisations incroyables, qui font le bonheur de Softbank, d'une entreprise qui a seulement 8 ans ? Jinri Toutiao, le premier produit star de ByteDance Pourquoi cet agrégateur de contenu est fascinant ? Qu'est ce que le problème du démarrage à froid, sur lequel ByteDance a une expertise mondiale ? Quels types de contenus pouvez-vous trouver sur Toutiao et sur quels sujets ? Et comment ByteDance valorise cela ? Combien y a t il d'utilisateurs dans le monde et combien de temps passent ils sur Toutiao? Et pourquoi cela permet d'affirmer que Toutiao façonne les esprits ? Quelle est la stratégie de Toutiao à l'international ? et quels sont ses achats ? Douyin - l'application video du quotidien de tous les chinois Combien y a t il d'utilisateurs quotidien actif de cette application ? Quelles sont les ambitions de croissance de ce parc annoncée par Kelly Zhang ? Comment situer Douyin dans la compétition mondiale des réseaux sociaux ? Combien de personnes et quels délais ont été nécessaires pour développer Douyin ? Que permets de faire Douyin ?Quelles sont les fonctionnalités qui ont fait la différence avec la concurrence ? Qu'est ce que le Swype, la fonctionnalité qui a largement améliorer l'expérience utilisateur ? Pourquoi Douyin est un grand maître de la rétention ? Et comment son audience s'est largement élargie ? Pourquoi Douyin est une application du quotidien des familles chinoises ? Combien de millions de personnes créent du contenu sur Douyin ? Et quel est le chiffre d'affaire généré par Douyin ? TikTok, l'adolescent en devenir Pourquoi dire que Douyin est leTiktok chinois est faux ? Quel rapport entre TikTok et Musica.ly Quels sont les grands chiffres de TikTok ? En Europe, aux USA et en France ? Combien de temps les français passent sur TikTok ? Quel est l'audience de TikTok ? TikTok vs Douyin, le match d'un monde bipolaire Pourquoi dire que TiKTok et Douyin , ce sont des services similaires, est faux ? Pourquoi Douyin est bien plus fort que TikTok en e-commerce ? Quels sont les très nombreux produits et services disponibles sur Douyin ? Pourquoi le deal TikTok et Shopify pourrait tout changer ? Pourquoi la liberté d'expression est difficile sur Douyin ? Quelles sont les règles de modération de Douyin ? Quels sont les risques pris par les utilisateurs ? Pourquoi TikTok est aussi attaqué sur sa trop grande liberté d'expression ? Comment Douyin favorise le contenu des influenceurs ? Combien peut-on espérer gagner avec une vidéo de moins d'une minute et comment ? Pourquoi Douyin est en train de révolutionner la façon d'apprendre et la Culture ? Pourquoi Bytedance, avec Douyin et TikTok va devenir le leader mondial de la Edtech ? Quels sont les concurrents que ByteDance doit surveiller ? et Pourquoi l'Inde est devenu un bac à sable pour le plus gros d'entre eux ? Vous aimez ce Podcast ? Vous n'êtes pas le seul. Vous pouvez contacter vos camarades : Sur asieinnovations.fr (et vous abonner à la newsletter) Et aussi https://www.facebook.com/asieinnovations https://www.linkedin.com/company/asie-et-innovations-le-podcast/
Independent publishers thrive in China on platforms like WeChat and Toutiao. Chinese TV shows and movies are often made based on successful web novels. In China self-publishers are referred to as “We Media” both a reference to WeChat and being fan-driven. In 2020, 360 million users read articles published on WeChat public accounts. Self-publishers have always had to make sure they don’t attract the attention of Chinese censors. A regulation published January 22nd by the Cyberspace Administration of China requires accounts that “provide online news service to the public shall obtain the Internet News Information Permit and other relevant media accreditation.” Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Joe MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. Subscribe through Apple Podcasts. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you are willing to support the show or to give as little as 10 cents a day on Patreon, Thank you! Become a Patron! Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the headlines music and Martin Bell for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to Anthony Lemos of Ritual Misery for the expanded show notes! Thanks to our mods, Kylde, Jack_Shid, KAPT_Kipper, and scottierowland on the subreddit Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here!
Independent publishers thrive in China on platforms like WeChat and Toutiao. Chinese TV shows and movies are often made based on successful web novels. In China self-publishers are referred to as “We Media” both a reference to WeChat and being fan-driven. In 2020, 360 million users read articles published on WeChat public accounts. Self-publishers have always had to make sure they don’t attract the attention of Chinese censors. A regulation published January 22nd by the Cyberspace Administration of China requires accounts that “provide online news service to the public shall obtain the Internet News Information Permit and other relevant media accreditation.”Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rich Strophollino, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Matt Galat is a travel vlogger and YouTuber. His channel, JaYoe Nation, focuses on travel content as he cycles around the world exploring new places and cultures. We talk to him about his journey and how travel changes social and political perspectives. We talk about the difficult but crucial task of keeping an objective world view and how he has recently come under attack by western media for his views on China. The JaYoe Nation | Website: http://www.jayoe.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JaYoeNation bilibili: https://space.bilibili.com/100182773 TouTiao: http://toutiao.com/m1681328028969998/ TikTok: 加油马特 The Honest Drink Podcast | Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehonestdrink_/ Join us on WeChat: THD_Official
I welcome Matthew Brennan, author of the new book "Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance" to the Sandwich Society podcast and we talk about the beginnings of the biggest digital entertainment social media app in the world as well as what the future holds. This episode is definitely meant "for your page," so grab a bottle of Ocean Spray cranberry juice and bob your head to this podcast with my guest: Matthew Brennan.SHOW NOTESAttention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2JXuhQLMatthew Brennan on Twitter https://twitter.com/mbrennanchinaMatthew Brennan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-brennan/Sandwich Society; http://www.sandwich-society.comRISE Offstage: https://open.spotify.com/show/0zniLKC4MapdE7VmhZUDC2?si=BWA_OLeRSWCUXZ3UFWoEwAWeb Summit: http://www.websummit.comRISE: http://www.riseconf.com---TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/Douyin https://www.douyin.com/Toutiao https://www.toutiao.com/Bytedance https://www.bytedance.com/en/Musically https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/musically-shutdown-tiktok-bytedance-1202893205/Mindie https://medium.com/@rrhoover/want-to-feel-badass-a-design-teardown-of-music-app-mindie-58228684b4a2Kuaishou https://www.kuaishou.com/Likee https://apps.apple.com/us/app/likee-let-you-shine/id1251790681Taobao https://world.taobao.com/Virtual gifting https://technode.com/2016/05/05/virtual-gifts-are-still-the-top-earner-in-chinas-live-video-streaming-market/Live streaming e-commercehttps://www.mytotalretail.com/article/the-rise-of-livestreaming-for-e-commerce/What are furries? https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/animals-and-us/201707/what-s-the-deal-furries“Fur and Loathing” the CSI episode on furries https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534691/What is a KOL https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/key-opinion-leadersDoggface vs Fleetwood Mac https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/doggface-gives-the-world-a-smile-with-juice-a-skateboard-and-all-the-vibesM to the B TikTok https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/m-to-the-b-song-tiktok/US Army bans TikTok https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/politics/army-tiktok-banned/index.htmlReels https://time.com/5875788/instagram-reels-tiktok/YouTube Shorts https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/building-youtube-shorts/Triller https://www.triller.co/China’s livestreaming Factory https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgzamm/chinas-live-streaming-factory
Welcome to a very special episode (#8) of techLGTM. In this episode we invited an amazing personality as our guest, Matthew Brennan, he is an expert on China Technology space, he has authored multiple books and is one of the most sought-after speakers on anything related to Chinese Technology. His recently released book "Attention Factory - The Story of TikTok & China's ByteDance" is getting rave reviews and is a must read for any entrepreneur. In this episode Matthew tells us about his background and career, what motivated him to author this book. He also shared his views on Tencent, Misucal.ly, Toutiao. He touched upon similarities and differences between China and US technology ecosystem and future of Chinese technology. Matthew also shared his views about political controversies regarding TikTok and how Joe Biden winning the elections might impact the future of ByteDance and other Chinese companies. You can follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina and buy his book from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L1578B6/ About techLGTM A technology podcast hosted by Shashank Singh, Preet Raj and Amol Sharma. Here we discuss some latest and pressing topics related to technology. We analyze how technology impacts our day to day life and what the future of technology will look like. Shashank Singh - Startup specialist with over two decades of experience. MBA in entrepreneurship and is an engineer. Amol Sharma - Serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies in the space e-commerce, AR/VR and Blockchain. Amol is an active member of VR AR Association and is an avid angel investor. Preet Raj - Seasoned engineering leader with Big Data. AI/ML and devops chops. MS and BE in Computer Science #matthew #brennan #matthewbrennan #tiktok #attentionfactory #china #chinesetech #chinesetechnology #podcast #technology #tech #techLGTM
In episode 334, Matthew Brennan returned to discuss his new book "Attention Factory: The Story of Tik Tok & China's ByteDance". Matthew began with the inspiration and the key themes behind the first English book specifically focused on ByteDance, observing the rise of the company. He discuss the backstory of Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance and how he learned from his past experiences to build Toutiao first before embarking on Douyin that eventually led to Tik Tok. Last but not least, Matthew debunked the common misconceptions on Tik Tok and ByteDance, explained how their business models work and offered a glimpse to the challenges ahead for the company in the near future. Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion: Matthew Brennan, Co-founder of China Channel and author of “ (chinachannel.co, @mbrennanchina , Linkedin, Wechat:Yowdy-CQ) As the highest recurring guest on the podcast, it’s great to welcome you back. First question: what have you been up to since our last conversation? “Attention Factory - The Story of Tik Tok and China’s ByteDance” by Matthew Brennan What is the inspiration behind writing this book? What are the key themes for this book? Who are the major audiences that you want to target in this book? Tik Tok and ByteDance are often characterized by Western commentators and media as a threat to Facebook, Twitter and even to the US government itself. What are the key misconceptions about Tik Tok and ByteDance? Probably this is the first book which dives in depth into the background of Zhang Yiming, the founder of Bytedance, and the surprise is that he used to work for China’s twitter clone, Fanfou (started by Wang Xing, now founder and CEO of Meituan-Dianping) and was shut down by the authorities. Can you elaborate more on his background and his stint as a CEO with another startup called 99Fang before coming to ByteDance? What has 99Fang taught Zhang Yiming in the process? After he resigned from 99Fang, he started ByteDance and it was not with Tik Tok that he started his foray. He did Toutiao, can you talk about the design concepts and what Toutiao taught the ByteDance team? One can think of the success of Tik Tok in three stages: Douyin in China, acquisition of Musical.ly and then expanding globally across the decade of 2010 to 2020. Let’s start with Douyin first, how did the app cross the chasm to drive users? Tencent has tried to challenge Douyin on the homeground with Weishi, what did they get wrong and why have they failed to challenge Tik Tok? What are the key business models for Tik Tok and Douyin from ByteDance? How does the app bring revenues to the company? How are the apps localized or globalized to ensure a better user experience? There are different ways to look at Tik Tok. One interesting insight was from Eugene Wei’s recent article “Tik Tok and the Sorting Hat”, where Tik Tok does not need the social graph but rather rely on the recommendation engine algorithm to push the interests of the user, which makes Tik Tok a more direct competitor to Youtube. What are your thoughts on how one should think of Tik Tok as a mobile app or social network or video network? Probably, we should talk about what happened to Tik Tok in the US this year. They have hired Kevin Mayer, former head of Disney+ and then Donald Trump threatened to shut them down, and first there was supposed to be an acquisition from Microsoft, but ended up with Oracle and Walmart clinching a partnership deal. Can you share your thoughts on what happened and where this is likely to go before & after the US elections? What are the key challenges you see for ByteDance in the coming year? Closing Do you have any recommendations that have recently inspired you? Where can our audience find you and your new book “Attention Factory”? Podcast Information: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Himalaya Spotify Libsyn Google Play Overcast FM SoundCloud Luminary Twitter Facebook Video Facebook Page Linkedin Stitcher Castbox RadioPublic Acast PodBean ListenNotes TuneIn The show is hosted and produced by Carol Yin (@CarolYujiaYin) and originally created by Bernard Leong (@bernardleong, Linkedin). Sound credits for the intro music: Taro Iwashiro, "The Beginning" from Red Cliff Soundtrack. analyseasia · Attention Factory: The Story of Tik Tok & China’s ByteDance with Matthew Brennan
TikTok je aktuálně nejkontroverznější aplikací. Důvodů je více. Na jedné straně je miliarda aktivních uživatelů a na druhé straně jsou státy, které tuto aplikaci chtějí zakázat, nebo ji dokonce už zakázaly! Proč, se dozvíte v tomto podcastu. Stejně tak se dozvíte: Zhang Yiming, zakladatel TikToku a jeho životní příběh Proč odešel z Microsoftu ByteDance- technologický gigant, který vyrostl v tichosti Co dělá jeho další superúspěšná aplikace Toutiao Jak funguje TikTok a proč je tak návykový Proč koupil TikTot Musically Proč chtějí Spojené státy zakázat TikTok Kde všude je TikTok zakázán Microsoft a TikTok Čína vs. TikTok A mnohem více! www.krokykuspechu.cz
About Miro LiMiro is a native Chinese and has been living in Hong Kong for a decade. Graduated from one of the TOP 3 Universities in Hong Kong (CUHK), she joined a Chinese eCommerce startup and was in charge of overseas business development.In 2017, Miro founded Double V., a consulting company helping overseas brands enter China market from 0 to 1. Double V. is specialized in Chinese niche social platforms, including but not limited to the most popular Chinese social commerce APP RED/XiaoHongShu, and the Gen Z video sharing platform Bilibili.In 2019, Miro founded CHINAble Academy, a training and resources sharing platform for industry leaders to offer courses and workshops about China business, Internet, e-commerce and marketing. Episode Content:Consumer behavior on social platformsMore about platforms like Xiaohongshu (Red APP) and BilibiliOther social driven platformsHow to use these niche platforms for cross-border e-commerce platformsWhy the Gen-Z (post '95) population is so important for platformsGen-Z behavior characteristicsWhat are bullet screens, such as AWSLBiggest trends on social platforms in 2020Insights and expectations on Singles Day (11-11)CHINable platform offering free knowledge on Cross-Border E-commerce Episode Mentions:Reach out to Miro via info@doublevconsulting.com or on LinkedINWebsite: www.doublevconsulting.com and www.chinableacademy.comWeChat ID: miro509Social shipping platforms: Pinduoduo, Toutiao, Douyin, Kuaishou, XiaohongshuPlatforms: JD.com, Tmall.com, Yangmatou, Jumei, Kaola, Xiaohongshu, VIPKOL = Key Opinion Leaders & KOC - Key Opinion ConsumersUGC - User Generated ContentACG - Animation Comics & GamesAWSL - a wo si le, literally I am dying, but used by Gen-Z to express excitement.O2O - Online to Offline and Offline to Online Download and SubscribeDownload this episode right click and choose "save as"Subscribe to China Business Cast on iTunesOr check out the full list on subscription optionsAdd Jons ('jslemmer') or Simon ('sraadt') on WeChat to join China Business Cast WeChat groupFind Jons on LinkedINFind Simon on LinkedINJoin China Business Cast WeChat group
Ecco le notizie più importanti della settimana selezionate da "Ascolta la Notizia". Facciamo il punto sulla pandemia di Covid-19. Questa settimana il numeri di contagi di coronavirus registrati nel mondo hanno superato quota 19 milioni. Sono i dati del conteggio della Johns Hopkins University di Washington sui casi individuati in tutto il mondo, aggiornato a venerdì 6 agosto 2020. Il numero di decessi ha superato i 715mila. Quasi la metà dei casi si registrano negli Stati Uniti e in Brasile, i Paesi più colpiti dalla pandemia rispettivamente con 4.800mila e 2.900mila casi. Nel frattempo in Africa il numero di contagi ha superato il milione, più della metà dei quali sono stati registrati in Sud Africa. L'Egitto registra circa 95mila casi e la Nigeria circa 45mila. In Belgio è «arrivata la seconda ondata di Covid-19». Lo ha annunciato Steven Van Gucht, presidente del comitato scientifico sul coronavirus dell'Istituto di sanità, Sciensano, secondo il quale la crescita del numero delle infezioni nel Paese «non è un piccolo aumento» e «non si sa quanto durerà e quanto saliranno le curve». Passiamo all'economia italiana. Dai dati raccolti dalle Acli di Roma è emerso che un terzo delle famiglie non andrà in vacanza in quanto «ha risparmi per andare avanti solo per altri tre mesi, mentre il 40% dei nuclei è in difficoltà con le rate del mutuo. E quasi il 60% ritiene che anche quando l'epidemia sarà terminata le spese per viaggi, vacanze, ristoranti, cinema e teatri saranno comunque inferiori a quelle pre-crisi». «I numeri» - ha commentato Lidia Borzì, presidente delle Acli di Roma - «nella loro freddezza, servono per mettere nero su bianco quanto ascoltiamo ai nostri sportelli. Ogni giorno accogliamo persone costrette a navigare a vista in questo periodo di grandi insicurezze, per lo più lavoratori con basse tutele e bassi salari, e cassintegrati a cui non rimane molto a fine mese, sicuramente sollevati dalle misure di sostegno delle Istituzioni, che però non sono sufficienti a ridare speranza. Servono interventi lungimiranti delle Istituzioni e una corresponsabilità di tutta la comunità». Chiudiamo con la tecnologia ByteDance, la compagnia cinese proprietaria della app TikTok ha accusato Facebook di aver plagiato e diffamato TikTok. «ByteDance è da sempre impegnata a diventare un'azienda globale. In questo processo ci troviamo di fronte a tutti i tipi di difficoltà, complesse e inimmaginabili, compreso il clima politico internazionale teso, la collisione e il conflitto di culture diverse, il plagio e la diffamazione da parte della concorrente Facebook», si legge in un post pubblicato sulla piattaforma locale Toutiao di proprietà della stessa ByteDance. «Tuttavia» - ha assicurato l'azienda cinese - «continuiamo a perseguire l'idea della globalizzazione e ad aumentare gli investimenti nei mercati di tutto il mondo, compresa la Cina, per creare valore per gli utenti globali. Rispettiamo rigorosamente le leggi locali e utilizzeremo attivamente i diritti concessi dalla legge per salvaguardare i diritti legali dell'azienda.
About Jay ThornhillStarting as a English teacher Jay is an Australian-American, born in Australia and grew up in the US. To cease his entrepreneurial spirit he left his home and travelled to China. With the intention of staying for 1 year he ended up staying for over 12 years now. In 2015 he ventured Baopals together with two of his friends Charlie and Tyler Baopals.com as the first platform to give foreigners in China an easy and enjoyable way to shop on Taobao, Tmall and JD.com. All 1 billion plus products on these platforms are available, with up-to-date pricing and product info, in English, and reorganized to make shopping on baopals as easy as pie. The pas years they have sold over millions of product become a solid market leader in the industry.They are an digital interface between the factory of the world and foreigners in China eager to buy online. With a multi-cultural team of 40 they are bound to make a bigger footprint for foreigners in China and exploring ways to service a much more global audience. And even paying it forward to other start-up entrepreneurs with different business services.Episode Content:How to benefit from grants as a foreign start-up in ChinaJay's and his China dreamWhat problem they are trying to solve with their businessHow getting started and perseverance paid offEntrepreneurship in ChinaHow to reach scale targeting foreigners in ChinaHow to keep a friendly vibe and company culture after maturing the businessNavigating platform based selling and social selling and incorporating this into BaopalsWhat peak season festivals such as Single's Day (11-11), 12-12 and 618 looks likeHow focus helped progress the businessGiving back to China's start-up communitiesHis China war storyEpisode Mentions:Find Jay on LinkedIN or reach out via email: jay@baopals.comWebsite: www.baopals.comPlatforms: Taobao.com, Tmall.com, JD.com, Xiaohongshu.com, Fancy.comSocial shipping platforms: Pinduoduo, Toutiao, Douyin.Find Jons on LinkedINFind Simon on LinkedINJoin China Business Cast WeChat groupDownload and SubscribeDownload this episode right click and choose "save as"Subscribe to China Business Cast on iTunesOr check out the full list on subscription optionsAdd Jons ('jslemmer') or Simon ('sraadt') on WeChat to join China Business Cast WeChat group
Taratakdung tara tak tak tak dung Tik Tok, juga dikenal sebagai Douyin (Hanzi: 抖音短视频; Pinyin: Dǒuyīn duǎnshìpín; artinya "video pendek vibrato"), adalah sebuah jaringan sosial dan platform video musik Tiongkok yang dluncurkan pada September 2016 oleh Zhang Yiming, pendiri Toutiao (penjelasan ini dicopy dari Wikipedia ya) Intinya Tik Tok itu baik selama kalian main sewajarnya gaiz, oke? Mantab.
Lumost'un 25. bölümünde Tiktok'un diğer sosyal medya platformlarından ayrışarak nasıl büyük bir etki alanına ulaştığını anlamaya çalışıyoruz.TikTok’in hikayesini 4 parçaya ayırarak incelemeye çalışacağız. İlk olarak 2014 yılına gidip Musical.ly günlerini analiz edeceğiz. İkinci kısımda Musical.ly'yi satın alan ByteDance’in güçlü yanlarına bakıp neden bu satın almayı yaptığını çözümlüyoruz. Musical.ly’nin Tiktok ile birleşmesinde sonra ortaya çıkan sinerjinin büyüklüğüne ve nasıl Dünya’nın en çok kullanılan sosyal medya platformlarından biri haline dönüştüğünü anlamaya çalışacağız. Üçüncü kısımda ise TikTok’un güvenlik problemleri üzerinden şekillenen güncel durumuna bakıyoruz. Son kısmında ise şirketin metriklerine bakıp ve gelecek üzerine kehanetlerde bulunarak podcast’i bitiriyoruz.Lumost'un tam metnine ve kullandığım kaynaklara lumost.net üzerinden ulaşabilirsiniz. Lumost'un Telegram kanalına da buradan katılabilirsiniz.
In today’s episode: Shanghai International Energy Exchange agrees to increase storage for future crude purchases by 20%; ByteDance wants you to start reading books for free; and why prisons are at risk of developing into breeding grounds for Covid-19. Read further coverage at caixinglobal.com.
LO PEOR AÚN ESTÁ POR VENIR. El jefe de la Organización Mundial de la Salud advirtió que "lo peor aún está por venir" en el brote de coronavirus, reviviendo la alarma al igual que muchos países alivian las medidas restrictivas destinadas a reducir su propagación. El Director General de la OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, no especificó por qué cree que el brote que ha infectado a unos 2.5 millones de personas y mató a más de 166,000 podría empeorar. Sin embargo, él y otros han señalado previamente la probable propagación futura de la enfermedad a través de África, donde los sistemas de salud están mucho menos desarrollados. THE TELEGRAPH EXTIENDEN RESTRICCIONES. Los Gobiernos de México y EEUU prolongaron 30 días la restricción de viajes no esenciales por la pandemia de COVID-19, anunció la cancillería del país latinoamericano.Las restricciones continuarán en los mismos términos desde que comenzaron el 21 de marzo, añaden los mensajes de la oficina que encabeza el canciller Marcelo Ebrard. TELEVISA EUROPA CON MÁS DATO POSITIVOS. Los países europeos más afectados por el coronavirus registraron casi 2.000 muertes, pero la mayoría también mostró datos positivos Todos reportaron un descenso en sus cifras, ya sea de hospitalizaciones o decesos, no obstante el hecho de que los domingos y lunes suelen tener balances menores por la demora en la unificación de reportes del fin de semana En concreto, la cifra correspondiente a la suma de víctimas en Francia, España, Italia, Alemania y el Reino Unido fue de 1.959. La premisa también se sostiene si estos se comparan con los fines de semana anteriores. 20 MINUTOS ANGELA MERKEL PIDE A CHINA TRANSPARENCIA. La canciller de Alemania, Angela Merkel, pidió este lunes a China que sea lo más transparente posible sobre la génesis del coronavirus coincidiendo con las acusaciones contra Pekín de haber minimizado los efectos de la pandemia en su territorio. Estados Unidos y otros aliados acusaron en las últimas semanas a China de haber creado el coronavirus en el laboratorio de Wuhan y luego no haber gestionado eficazmente la epidemia. El laboratorio chino acusado investigado por los servicios de Inteligencia estadounidenses de ser la posible fuente del coronavirus rechazó de plano cualquier responsabilidad en la pandemia. China también rechazó el lunes la demanda de Australia de investigar la forma en que fue gestionada la pandemia de coronavirus. EL UNIVERSO CRISIS DEL PETRÓLEO. El precio internacional del petróleo no solo cayó un 66% en el primer trimestre del año. En abril siguió en baja y el barril de crudo estadounidense WTI llegó a cotizar este lunes por debajo de cero, una situación sin precedentes. Un “precio negativo” significa que quien produce o tiene un bien le paga a otro para que se lo lleve. En economía, es un concepto que normalmente se asocia a la disposición y almacenamiento de desechos nucleares o de basura. Es un tema para profundizar, podés leer más aquí: BBC | CNN | DF TIK TOK ES BUENA OPORTUNIDAD. Los socios beta minoristas de la función ‘Shop Now’ de Tik Tok están encontrando un éxito temprano aprovechando los 800 millones de usuarios globales de la aplicación. En un blog publicado el lunes, Levi's dijo que su campaña TikTok duplicó con creces las visitas a la página de productos de sus artículos de jeans personalizados, con un tiempo de interacción de video que era el doble del promedio de la plataforma. Levi's dijo que TikTok podría ser una fuente de ingresos útil y una forma alternativa de impulsar las ventas de comercio electrónico a medida que el coronavirus deja tiendas físicas cerradas indefinidamente. TECH CRUNCH GOOGLE IMPLEMENTA BRAILLE. Google ha anunciado que va a implementar un teclado Braille integrado directamente en Android, cumpliendo así “su misión de hacer que la información del mundo sea universalmente accesible”, dice la compañía. El braille se inventó hace más de 150 años para hacer que la lectura y la escritura fueran accesibles para las personas ciegas. Por supuesto, existen también teclados braille físicos, pero según afirman desde Google “puede llevar mucho tiempo conectar un dispositivo externo cada vez que se desee escribir algo rápidamente en el teléfono”. El teclado ‘braille TalkBack’ es un nuevo teclado virtual braille integrado directamente en Android, “una forma rápida y conveniente de escribir en tu teléfono sin ningún hardware adicional”. “Esperamos que este teclado pueda expandir ampliamente la alfabetización en braille”, comentan desde la compañía TRECEBITS EL SERVICIO CHINO DE NOTICIAS BASADO EN IA. Toutiao, es el servicio chino de noticias que ofrece a cada lector aquello que más le interesa gracias a la Inteligencia Artificial. Juntos con TikTok sus aciertos han llevado a ByteDance a ser, a tenor del informe anual de TechCrunch, la segunda startup más valiosa del mundo (75.000 millones de dólares), sólo por detrás de Ant Financial (150.000 millones), que es la plataforma de pago de Alibaba. La app de noticias a la carta Toutiao se lanzó en agosto de 2012, como una plataforma abierta de creación y distribución de contenido. En octubre de 2017, el número de cuentas en Toutiao superó los 1,1 millones. 20 MINUTOS COMITÉ OLÍMPICO INTERNACIONAL. El Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) reconoció que, de acuerdo con la actual reglamentación de la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (AMA), los deportistas que no hubieran podido participar en los Juegos de Tokio 2020 por estar suspendidos por dopaje cuya sanción concluya antes de la nuevas fechas olímpicas, podrán competir en la citaja ponesa. ''Las sanciones son cronológicas y no para eventos específicos", apostilló en su página web. 20 MINUTOS LA MÚSICA PARAGUAYA ESTÁ DE LUTO: FALLECIÓ UN EMBAJADOR GUARANÍ. TIGO SPORTS
Tencent's set for fastest growth since 2018 after outbreak疫情之后，腾讯准备好迎接自 2018 年以来的最快增长Tencent Holdings Ltd. picked up millions of new gamers during the global coronavirus outbreak — yet that surge in mobile play may be slowing as the world's No.2 economy goes back to work.在全球新冠疫情暴发期间，腾讯控股有限公司收获了数百万新游戏玩家。不过，随着中国这一世界第二大经济体开始复工，手游用户高速增长的趋势可能逐渐放缓。The quest for entertainment among millions confined to home translated into a big boost for Tencent's marquee games, Honor of Kings and Peacekeeper Elite.*** That helped the company gain $25 billion of market value up to March 5, before a global market rout torpedoed the stock along with the rest of the market. WeChat operator Tencent is now expected to report its fastest pace of revenue growth since 2018 when it unveils fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, and investors will look for assurances it can sustain that pace of topline expansion.疫情期间数百万人被迫宅在家中，他们对娱乐的诉求，极大地推动了腾讯旗下两大王牌游戏（《王者荣耀》与《和平精英》）的增长。受此影响，截至 3 月 5 日，在全球市场崩溃导致股市和其他市场受挫之前，腾讯的市值增长了 250 亿美元。按照目前的预期，即将在本周三公布的四季报中，微信运营商腾讯有望发布其自 2018 年以来最快的营收增长。投资者将会寻求保证，确认腾讯能维持最快的扩张速度。But the outlook may be less clear-cut than anticipated and any gains from the pandemic may prove short-lived. While the bread-and-butter Peacekeeper Elite showed strong growth in the first days of March, sales from other major games dwindled and overall revenue fell for the sixth straight week, according to Sensor Tower data. Tencent's social and video ad businesses are also expected to take a hit this quarter when merchants and brands tighten their budgets.但腾讯的前景可能不如预期中明朗，得益于疫情的增长也或许十分短暂。据 Sensor Tower 发布的数据，尽管腾讯的拳头游戏产品《和平精英》在三月的头几天表现出强劲的增长势头，但其他几款主要游戏的销售额都有所下跌，整体收益已整整下滑了六周。由于贸易商和品牌方都收紧预算，预计本季度腾讯的社交和视频广告业务也会遭受巨大打击。In the longer term, the bigger problem may be ByteDance Inc. The world's largest startup has been luring users and advertisers away to its addictive apps like news aggregator Toutiao and video platform Douyin, TikTok's Chinese twin. Now, ByteDance is trying to diversify its revenue stream into arenas such as paid music services and full-fledged video games, posing potential threats to Tencent's online content empire.长期来看，腾讯所面临的更大问题可能是字节跳动公司。作为全球最大的创业公司，它旗下拥有新闻聚合类应用今日头条，和 TikTok 的国内版、视频平台抖音等 app。这些 app 魔力十足，吸引走了大批用户和广告商。如今，字节跳动正杀入付费音乐服务和成熟的游戏行业等战场，以实现公司营收的来源多样化。这对腾讯的线上内容帝国构成了潜在威胁。
Épisode 353 : La mesure de confinement contre le COVID-19 vient d'être déclarée mais cela ne doit pas empêcher pas le lien social de se tisser. Si les réseaux télécom rencontrent quelques difficultés, les réseaux sociaux eux, continuent à rassembler !Retarder, ralentir, écrêter la courbe épidémique provoquée par le coronavirus. C’est le but des multiples mesures de confinement annoncées depuis quelques jours en France par le gouvernement.Avec une dernière annonce faire hier : Tout le monde doit rester chez soi. Des mesures de confinements qui vont avoir un impact notable sur notre quotidien et notre vie sociale.Avec le confinement, le trafic Internet exploseTélétravail et jeux en ligne : le coronavirus a entraîné un pic de trafic Internet équivalent à 2 millions de vidéos en une seconde. C'est le plus haut record jamais atteint par DE-CIX, carrefour mondial de l'Internet situé à Francfort.En Italie, le trafic a augmenté de 70 % sur le réseau fixe après la fermeture des écoles, a indiqué la semaine dernière le directeur général de Telecom Italia, Luigi Gubitosi. Selon CloudFlare (fournisseur d'infrastructure Internet), en Italie, l'utilisation des services de chat en ligne a été Multiplié par 3 , tandis que la quantité de trafic de streaming vidéo a doublé. Les visites sur les sites d'informations du pays ont augmenté de 30 à 60% et les jeux en ligne ont augmenté de 20%.SourceLe confinement provoque un pic dans l'accès aux applications en ChineLes téléchargements hebdomadaires d'applications en Chine ont atteint leur plus haut niveau dans les premières semaines de février, alors que les quarantaines imposées par les autorités pour contenir la propagation de Covid-19 (coronavirus) ont vu les gens se tourner vers leur téléphone pour lutter contre l'ennui et rester productifsAu cours de la semaine commençant le 2 février, les téléchargements de l'App Store ont atteint 222 millions, une augmentation de 45% du trafic hebdomadaire typique tout au long de 2019. Les applications éducatives et commerciales arrivent en tête de liste.Renforcement de la censure en chineIl est courant en Chine que les géants d’Internet expurgent en masse des contenus considérés comme sensibles politiquement. Et cette épidémie de coronavirus a été l'occasion d'un net resserrement de la censure.Suite à la vague d’indignation après la mort du médecin lanceur d’Alerte au Wuhan, les critiques envers les dirigeants et les appels a la liberté se sont fait ressentir, mais la censure a repris de plus belle pour étouffer l’information.Une étude canadienne de Citizen lab montre que la Chine a censuré pendant des semaines toute référence au nouveau coronavirus. Plus de 500 Mots clés et phrases entières bloqués sur WeChat et YY (pneumonie, virus…)Des happy hours digitales aux USAAux États Unis, des personnes ont suggéré l’idée d’organiser une «happy hour du télétravail » via le service de vidéoconférence Zoom. Ils ont tweeté un lien et environ 50 personnes se sont présentées pour plaisanter et montrer leurs animaux de compagnie et leurs bébés.Ils ont recommencé le lendemain et 75 autres personnes s’étaient jointes au groupeEn Chine, WeChat devient le média grand publicAlors que les villes, les villages et les complexes résidentiels ont été fermés ou mis en place des couvre-feux, les médias sociaux ont joué un rôle central dans la communication de crise.Les plates-formes de médias sociaux chinois, de WeChat et Weibo, à QQ, Toutiao, Douyin, Zhihu et Tieba, sont la bouée de sauvetage pour de nombreuses personnes isolées et effrayées qui sont confinées chez elles depuis plus de deux semaines, s'appuyant sur leurs téléphones mobiles pour accéder aux informations, socialiser, et commander de la nourriture.Ces plateformes constituent les médias grand public dans la guerre contre le coronavirus.Sur WeChat , la super application chinoise tout-en-un avec plus de 1,15 milliard d'utilisateurs actifs par mois, il n'y a eu qu'un seul sujet dominant: le coronavirus.Le pianiste Germano - Russe Igor Levitta annoncé qu'il se produirait gratuitement sur Twitter par exemple. Pendant le confinement, Fortnite cartonne en Italie et confirme son statut de plate-forme socialeEt en Italie, où la vie publique est au point mort car pratiquement tous les rassemblements ont été interdits, Fortnite est en effet en plein essor. Le jeu de tir Battle Royale, qui est rapidement devenu un lieu de rencontre virtuel pour les jeunes, est devenu si populaire en Italie que l'infrastructure Internet de l'entreprise est sous pression.En Italie, l’appel « Pour que le pays ne soit qu'un immense concert »C'est une formidable preuve que les réseaux sociaux sont un catalyseur de lien socialOn a tous vue cette vidéo sur les réseaux. De italiens en confinement qui depuis leur balcon pousse la chansonnette. Ils ont été appelés à jouer d'un instrument ou à donner de la voix pour que "pendant quelques minutes, (le) pays ne soit qu'un immense concert".Ils ont largement répondu présent: entonnant de la chanson de variété ou l'hymne national "Fratelli d'Italia", en couple ou enfant dans les bras, sourire aux lèvres ou doigt tendu vers les voisins parfois.En Italie, encore : "Tutto andra bene !"Répondant à une autre initiative très partagée sur les réseaux sociaux, des Italiens affichent sur leur domicile des dessins d'arc-en-ciel, accompagnés de cette phrase "Tutto andra bene !" , soit "Tout ira bien !".Le réseau peut-il tenir ?Contraints de rester à la maison et de respecter les mesures de confinement imposées par l’épidémie de Coronavirus, les Français vont solliciter plus que coutume les réseaux.D’où la question : faut-il craindre un risque de saturation et d’engorgement qui rende notre utilisation d’internet plus compliquée, voire impossible ?Les opérateurs soutiennent que les réseaux sont dimensionnés pour absorber les pics de consommation, mais précisent qu’en cas de besoin, il sera nécessaire d’en appeler à la responsabilité numérique des Français.Source—-Nous sommes des créatures socialesNous sommes des créatures sociales et nous sommes sur le point d'être privés d'une grande partie de cette socialisation.Tout comme les retombées du coronavirus menacent de provoquer une récession économique , il nous faut éviter une «récession sociale»: un effondrement des contacts sociaux.Certaines plateformes assouplissent leurs règles pour plus de lien social.Discord a augmenté la limite du nombre de personnes pouvant rejoindre un appel vidéo gratuit à 50 .D’autres s’organisent et font du Co-Working par télétravail.On constate déjà que le nombre de contenu publié en live sur Instagram ne cesse d’augmenter.. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon. Nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.
In this two-part series we explore the international phenomenon and emerging social media platform: TikTok. From the failing Shanghai tech company that created Musical.ly to ByteDance’s $1b acquisition in 2017, we explore how TikTok became the highest-valued startup to date now totalling over $75b. Part 2 will examine the way TikTok has changed our perception of content production, how its paying the most popular users, and breakdown what exactly is going on between the new controversy regarding Mark Zuckerberg and the US Gov. plan to investigate the app’s Chinese background. We also realize over the course of recording, that this may be our most important episode to date! Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! Do you have a tip for us? Got some hot gossip? Need to get any questions off your chest? Call our hotline at Call 1-810-EAT-FREE (1-810-328-3733) or send us an email at questions@eatingforfree.com! Become a Patreon backer for exclusive access to weekly bonus episodes and more! You can also find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram. Sources: Meet the Head of TikTok, a 35-Year-Old Who Makes Employees Do Push-Ups if Their Videos Don't Get Enough Likes - Money, Julia Glum (2019) How a failed education startup turned into Musical.ly, the most popular app you've probably never heard of - Business Insider, Biz Carson (2016) Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else - NYT, Paul Mozur My conversation with Zhang Yiming, founder of Toutiao - Technode, 2017 Musical.ly, a Chinese App Big in the U.S., Sells for $1 Billion (Paul Mozur) - NYT, 2017 Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Tests the Limits - NYT, John Herrman, 2016 The popular Musical.ly app has been rebranded as TikTok - The Verge, Dami Lee. (2018) These Teens Are Making Thousands a Month With Karaoke App Musical.ly - Money, Gabriela Fernandez AI In China: How Buzzfeed Rival ByteDance Uses Machine Learning To Revolutionize The News - Forbes, Bernard Marr A Look at Toutiao: China’s Artificial Intelligence Powered News Platform - Wei Chun Chew, Medium The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King - Ycombination, Anu Hariharan (2017 The History of TikTok (TeenVogue) How TikTok is Rewriting the World (NewYorkTimes) TikTok, Explained (Vox) How TikTok Holds Our Attention (NewYorker) 32 Biggest Stars on TikTok (Business Insider) How 7 Brands are Using TikTok (HugSpot) TikTok and Activism (BBC) Meet the Head of TikTok (Money.com) How A Failed Startup Became Musical.ly (Business Insider) Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market (NewYorkTimes) My conversation with Zhang Yiming, founder of Toutiao (Technode) Musical.ly, a Chinese App Big in the U.S., Sells for $1 Billion (NewYorkTimes) Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Tests the Limits (NewYorkTimes) The popular Musical.ly app has been rebranded as TikTok (The Verge) These Teens Are Making Thousands a Month With Karaoke App Musical.ly (Money.com) AI In China: How Buzzfeed Rival ByteDance Uses Machine Learning To Revolutionize The News (Forbes) How TikTok Took Over Music (Rolling Stone) Record Labels Demand More Money for Songs on TikTok App (Bloomberg) U.S. Army Looking Into National Security Concerns Over TikTok After Using It to Recruit Troops (Gizmodo) U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok (Reuters) TikTok national security inquiry (CNBC) US investigating TikTok owner ByteDance (South China Morning Post) Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok (BuzzFeedNews) TikTok has moved into Facebook’s backyard (CNBC)
In this two-part series we explore the international phenomenon and emerging social media platform: TikTok. From the failing Shanghai tech company that created Musical.ly to ByteDance’s $1b acquisition in 2017, we explore how TikTok became the highest-valued startup to date now totalling over $75b. In part 1 we’ll break down the app and its powerful machine learning technology, and how its Chinese roots are critical to understanding the future of the company. Eating For Free is a bi-weekly gossip podcast reporting from the edge of the internet! We're a new wave of celebrity reporters at a time when pop culture is increasingly chaotic and media lacks the ability or moral direction to make sense of this capitalist nightmare! Do you have a tip for us? Got some hot gossip? Need to get any questions off your chest? Call our hotline at Call 1-810-EAT-FREE (1-810-328-3733) or send us an email at questions@eatingforfree.com! Become a Patreon backer for exclusive access to weekly bonus episodes and more! You can also find us on our website, Twitter, and Instagram. For behind-the-scenes gossip and access, join our exclusive Facebook group: Girls & Gays (G.A.G.S.)! Joan Summers: Twitter, Instagram. Matthew Lawson: Twitter, Instagram. Sources: Meet the Head of TikTok, a 35-Year-Old Who Makes Employees Do Push-Ups if Their Videos Don't Get Enough Likes - Money, Julia Glum (2019) How a failed education startup turned into Musical.ly, the most popular app you've probably never heard of - Business Insider, Biz Carson (2016) Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else - NYT, Paul Mozur My conversation with Zhang Yiming, founder of Toutiao - Technode, 2017 Musical.ly, a Chinese App Big in the U.S., Sells for $1 Billion (Paul Mozur) - NYT, 2017 Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Tests the Limits - NYT, John Herrman, 2016 The popular Musical.ly app has been rebranded as TikTok - The Verge, Dami Lee. (2018) These Teens Are Making Thousands a Month With Karaoke App Musical.ly - Money, Gabriela Fernandez AI In China: How Buzzfeed Rival ByteDance Uses Machine Learning To Revolutionize The News - Forbes, Bernard Marr A Look at Toutiao: China’s Artificial Intelligence Powered News Platform - Wei Chun Chew, Medium The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King - Ycombination, Anu Hariharan (2017 The History of TikTok (TeenVogue) How TikTok is Rewriting the World (NewYorkTimes) TikTok, Explained (Vox) How TikTok Holds Our Attention (NewYorker) 32 Biggest Stars on TikTok (Business Insider) How 7 Brands are Using TikTok (HugSpot) TikTok and Activism (BBC) Meet the Head of TikTok (Money.com) How A Failed Startup Became Musical.ly (Business Insider) Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market (NewYorkTimes) My conversation with Zhang Yiming, founder of Toutiao (Technode) Musical.ly, a Chinese App Big in the U.S., Sells for $1 Billion (NewYorkTimes) Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.ly Tests the Limits (NewYorkTimes) The popular Musical.ly app has been rebranded as TikTok (The Verge) These Teens Are Making Thousands a Month With Karaoke App Musical.ly (Money.com) AI In China: How Buzzfeed Rival ByteDance Uses Machine Learning To Revolutionize The News (Forbes) How TikTok Took Over Music (Rolling Stone) Record Labels Demand More Money for Songs on TikTok App (Bloomberg) U.S. Army Looking Into National Security Concerns Over TikTok After Using It to Recruit Troops (Gizmodo) U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok (Reuters) TikTok national security inquiry (CNBC) US investigating TikTok owner ByteDance (South China Morning Post) Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok (BuzzFeedNews) TikTok has moved into Facebook’s backyard (CNBC)
James Hull from Hullx and co-host of China Tech Investor podcast joined us in a discussion on whether we should replace Baidu with Bytedance in the BAT China. Starting with the question, James dived deep into the business structures of Baidu and Bytedance and examined whether Baidu has lost their edge as one of the three tech giants of China. In the same conversation, James offered his perspectives on how Bytedance will replace Baidu in the future. Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included): James Hull (@jameshullx, LinkedIn), Co-host of China Tech Investor podcast and Founder of Hullx [0:21] Since you have last appeared on the podcast, what have you been up to? [0:50] Should we replace Baidu with Bytedance in the BAT? [0:56] BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) & TMD (Toutiao, Meituan-dianping, Didi) Let’s start with Baidu. How has Baidu performed as a public company for the past decade? [2:08] What are the key businesses of Baidu? (iQiyi is spun off as a separate company)? [3:27] Baidu's advances in AI [4:56] and in the intelligent audio input interface and speaker sector. [5:42] Is Baidu dependent on the advertising business similar to Google in the US? [6:51] Comparison between Baidu and Bytedance in terms of user information feeds [9:30] Bytedance's advantage with user feeds and recommendations through Douyin and Toutiao [11:51] Bytedance has been growing exponentially with a 75B valuation from their recent round with SoftBank, now the most valuable startup in the world followed by Didi. How are they performing as a business? [15:09] What are the key revenue drivers for Bytedance? How are they compared to Alibaba and Tencent? [18:08] What are Baidu’s competitive advantages that you think may allow them to stay competitive within the BAT? [24:30] How Baidu's search engine competes against Google and the rest of Chinese search engines. [28:24] Should we just replace Baidu with Bytedance in the BAT? [31:09] Interesting Chinese answer on the question for this podcast (in Chinese) in Zhihu (similar to Reddit and Quora in the US) which Carol has referenced and mentioned in the discussion. Closing [37:24] Recommendation for a book, movie, podcast, or any consumable content?[37:24] James' recommendation: "I love capitalism" by Ken Langone , "The Great Rebalancing" by Michael Pettis Carol's recommendation: Louis Cha's or Jin Yong's martial arts novels How does our audience find you? Podcast Information: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Himalaya Spotify Libsyn Google Play Overcast FM SoundCloud Luminary Twitter Facebook Video Facebook Page Linkedin Stitcher Castbox RadioPublic Acast PodBean ListenNotes TuneIn The show is hosted and produced by Carol Yin (@CarolYujiaYin). Sound credits for the intro music: Taro Iwashiro, "The Beginning" from Red Cliff Soundtrack.
Welcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/, gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people and cultures.For Episode 4 Qumin take a journey through time and replace the magic carpet with a phone. Arnold, Sam and Louisa whizz through 24 hours on both a UK and a Chinese phone and pinpoint differences and similarities. They look at user behaviours and habits, as well as the platforms these manifest on. Sam Phillips is Qumin’s Account Director who looks after all the global brands, while Louisa Loehrig takes care of Qumin's marketing.Topics include:3:37 The Chinese Dream vs ‘Generation sensible’ 6:15 Why mobile apps are so powerful in China9:30 Mornings in the UK vs in China12:34 ‘Jinri Toutiao’, Bytedance’s hyper-powered news platform13:19 How WeChat replaced email: The convergence of professional and social spheres16:03 How AI algorithms and interest-driven content feeds cater to heightened user expectations19:01 The commute to work: transport, in-transit entertainment and breakfast 20:42 Omnipresent signal: zero downtime in China23:41 What the fierce competition between Chinese corporations (e.g. Alibaba vs Tencent) means for consumers33:01 The biggest difference between Western and Chinese platforms: Social operating systems34:01 ‘Digital self’: Profiles and online identities in China vs in the West35:27 The importance of desktop in the UK 37:21 Work in the West is doable without a phone, but in China: no phone/no WeChat, no business40:50 The Chinese favour culture42:07 Red envelopes and social currencies connect life and work on WeChat45:29 Ordering a takeaway for lunch in China: Cheap, quick, convenient services enabled through manpower47:01 Saving time and convenience are key with mobile service design in China48:24 The importance of food in China 53:01 The death of TV in China and the rise of mobile short form videos56:50 China’s content marketing is a preview of the futureIf you like this episode, hit subscribe for more and follow 'Qumin' on LinkedIn for the latest updates. You can also watch the show on YouTube: https://youtu.be/avrSGAjOVlw
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google’s explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google’s explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google’s explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google’s explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google's explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Scott co-hosts with Ross again as they discuss a wide variety of content from Google's explanation of recent indexing issues, to Google My Business suspensions and changes to Hotel profiles, and great questions from SEO 101 podcast listeners.
Épisode 131 : Les réseaux sociaux chinois se sont construits à l'écart du reste du monde. Vous ne retrouverez pas Facebook, Instagram, Twitter ou Snapchat en Chine mais plutôt WeChat, Douyin, Taobao ou Weibo ! En Chine tout s'est construit différemment et il semblerait qu'aujourd'hui nos réseaux sociaux occidentaux soient en retard. Donc l'avenir du Social Media est peut-être sur les réseaux sociaux Chinois. La Chine est non seulement le plus grand marché de médias sociaux au monde, mais également un écosystème en ligne incroyablement riche et diversifié. Regarder ce qu’il se passe du côté de la Chine s’est sans doute un bon moyen de se projeter sur ce qu’il va se passer ici, en occident. Alors que Facebook, Instagram et Twitter continuent de dominer le monde occidental, la Chine a vu émerger de nombreuses nouvelles plateformes sociales innovantes. Cela inclut les plateformes de partage de vidéos telles que Douyin (Tik Tok), le géant de la messagerie instantanée WeChat ainsi que les communautés commerçantes telles que Taobao (Le Ebay chinois). ##Une bulle préservée des géants occidentaux qui a su s’inventer## En chine pas de Facebook, pas de Twitter, pas d’Instagram ! En Chine pas de GAFA mais BATX (Baidu, AliBaba, Tencent, Xiamoi) ##Écosystème de médias sociaux à double couche## L'étude Kantar réalisée en 2018, souligne la structuration de l’écosysteme des plateformes social media en Chine autour de 2 typologies. Les plateformes social basées sur la relation communautaire WeChat, et Sina Weibo (un peu comme Twitter) Les plateformes davantage centrée sur le contenu personnalisé Un nouvelle typologie de plateformes sociales qui bouleverse les usages avec un usage extrêmement poussé des flux de contenus automatisés par recommandation. C’est vraiment la société ByteDance, qui a boulversé le modèle avec sa technologie Direct Push soutenue par des algorithmes et des logiques d’apprentissage automatique via IA. C’est notamment cette techno qu’on trouve au coeur de TikTok, Douyin. Mais aussi de Toutiao qui est un espèce de Google actualités ultra poussé et social media. Temps moyen quotidien passé sur la plateforme 74 minutes soit 50% de plus que Facebook. ##L’eCommerce au coeur du social media## Confusion des genres assumée : Trois grandes sociétés contrôlent la majeure partie du marché du commerce électronique, des réseaux sociaux, du paiement mobile et des recherches. Cela a fait du shopping en ligne une affaire sociale, stimulée par le fait que vous pouvez payer en toute transparence pour les articles que vous souhaitez, le tout sur mobile, sans quitter l'application. Baidu : moteur de recherche et Paidu Wallet Alibaba : taobabo (Ebay chinois) et Sina Weibo (twitter chinois) Tencent : We chat, we chat pay et JD (Amazon chinois) C'est pourquoi les frontières entre le social et le commerce électronique sont devenues si floues. Le social commerce a une longueur d’avance : Les consommateurs chinois, contrairement aux consommateurs occidentaux, acceptent les ventes sur les réseaux sociaux. Non seulement ils l'acceptent, mais ils se tournent d'abord vers le social avant de faire un achat. Selon Accenture, 70% des Chinois nés après 1995 se tourneront vers les médias sociaux pour acheter directement des produits. La moyenne mondiale est de 44%. ##Plus que l’influence marketing on parle de KOL## Key Opinion Leader. Ce sont eux qui permettent aux marque d’être présents dans le dark social sur WeChat par exemple. Article passionnant du Boston Consulting Group sur le parcours client des Chinois comparé au parcours des occidentaux. L’acte d’achat peut se dérouler directement dans les plateformes sociales, chez les KOL (les influenceurs). En gros en Chine Si vous n’avez pas de KOL votre marque n’existe pas ! Dans We Chat par exemple, les influenceurs peuvent créer leur propre boutique en ligne avec les produits des marques qu’ils représentent. On peut acheter directement depuis l’application. Vente directement dans les streaming live via QR Code. La technologie a atteint une pénétration rapide, avec la plate-forme vidéo courte Douyin (Tik Tok) et la plate-forme d’actualités titre Toutiao qui gagne rapidement en popularité. TikTok, Douyin. Le petit livre rouge qui est devenu l'un des médias sociaux dont la croissance est la plus rapide en Chine. Différent des célèbres WeChat et Weibo, Redbook se concentre sur le segment de la beauté et de la mode, bien que nous assistions à une diversification du contenu dans la catégorie du style de vie en général depuis ses débuts. Mobile first avant nous. La responsabilité des plateformes institutionnalisée Social shopping Boom du e-commerce Pourquoi la diffusion du paiement mobile est-elle essentielle ? Parce qu’elle facilite les achats sur internet et abolit la frontière entre « en ligne » et « hors ligne ». Un peu comme si la plupart des consommateurs occidentaux avaient installé Apple Pay sur leur téléphone, et que tous les magasins en étaient équipés, y compris les vendeurs de marrons chauds… Car la solution chinoise, reposant sur les codes QR (en deux dimensions) fonctionne aussi avec un simple code imprimé. Une fois un portefeuille électronique installé, les achats en ligne ne sont plus qu’une formalité. Résultat, le commerce en ligne a représenté 17 % du total des ventes en Chine, en 2017, et devrait atteindre 25 % en 2020, d’après Goldman Sachs. Le C2C Public encore plus accroc Quant au milliard d’utilisateurs de WeChat, ils y passent en moyenne 66 minutes par jour, contre 50 minutes pour les utilisateurs de Facebook. Un tiers des utilisateurs de WeChat y passent plus de quatre heures par jour. . . . Le Super Daily est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs. Nous sommes une agence de content marketing et social media basée à Lyon. Nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs. Contact : bonjour@supernatifs.com
China has only 55% internet penetration, but almost every person online is using a smartphone, therefore a lot of phone-optimized content (video, news, silly applications to make your selfies look beautiful) is created every day. As of this month of recording, October 2018, Bytedance, the Chinese company owning news aggregator Toutiao and short video app Douyin/Tik-tok, is now THE most valuable startup in the world, more than Uber or Baidu. 虽然中国只有55％的互联网普及率，但几乎每个网民都使用智能手机，因此每天都产生大量内容（视频，新闻，很傻但让你看起来很漂亮手机APP)。截至本期节目录制时(2018年10月)，“字节跳动”这家中国公司公司——旗下有新闻聚合器APP“今日头条”和短视频应用“抖音”/“Tik-tok”(抖音视频国际版)——现在已经是世界上最有价值的创业公司，超过了优步或者百度。 So, as I work on a television project I wanted to talk to those who just create articles, funny videos, and news on the Chinese internet. How do they make a living by creating online content? How do they find followers? And how big is the competition? 鉴于我正从事电视行业，我很想与那些在中国互联网上写文章、创作有趣的视频和新闻的人聊一聊。他们是如何通过创作线上内容谋生的？是如何吸引受众的？这个行业的竞争有多大？ This episode will be a two-part series on how the internet is changing content creation in China. Next month we will look at how today’s advertisements are light years away from what was done just 5 years ago. 这一集是关于互联网如何改变中国内容创作的第二部分，下个月我们将关注现在的广告作品与5年前的巨大差异。 With Erman – Weibo & Wechat influencer / 微博和微信( 就是曼仔 )影响者 Erman’s Weibo ／ Erman Instagram Ben Jonhson – Douyin celebrity at the 和歪果仁说英语 channel ／‘和歪果仁说英语’抖音红人 Ben’s Instagram / Ben’s (personal) Douyin Tang Yiqing ／唐宜青 – Founder & CEO of media app “Juzi Yule” / 社交软件‘橘子娱乐’创始人兼CEO www.happyjuzi.com And as usual, your host Aladin Aladin’s Linkedin ／ Aladin’s Twitter ／ Aladin’s Instagram From this interview we have found three take-aways: 从这次采访中，我们总结出三个主要观点: 1) Whatever you do, do it with heart, and glory awaits – 无论你做什么，精诚所至，金石为开 As you will create content solely in Mandarin, there are so many people in China waiting for quality content that fans will soon flock your account and be your die-hard fans. No need to overthink a strategy or work on something you don’t like just because it is today’s fashion. Content is king and you should first focus on what you like and what you are good at to share with the world. 如果你用普通话来创作，你的潜在受众将有很多，大家都在期待高质量的内容，粉丝很快就会涌入你的帐户并成为你的铁粉。因此没必要过度考虑策略，或者做一些你并不喜欢、但是现在很火的内容。内容为王，你应该首先关注自己喜欢以及擅长的内容，把它分享出去。 2) When do you start running ads? – 什么时候开始投放广告? As your brand will need time to develop, don’t start too soon to partner up with commercial clients. The question is not really if your followers will dislike it or not, but more that you need first to reach a good level of content creation that will allow you to get a lot of followers. When you have created enough videos and articles, then you can move on to phase two: Partner up with a brand and sell their product. Some people might hate it, especially when you do a “soft ad” which looks like real content, but the common people will understand you need to make a living and will forgive you. 因为你的品牌需要时间发展，所以不要急着去寻找商业伙伴。最关键的问题不是你的粉丝喜不喜欢你，而是首先你需要创造更多有品质的内容来吸引关注；当你创作了足够的视频以及文章，你就可以开始第二阶段了：与品牌合作，开始做营销。有些粉丝可能会讨厌营销手段，即使你做了一个内容很好的软广，但大部分人还是会理解你的生存需要、释怀你的营销行为。 3) Don’t try to cheat to become famous – 绝对不要试图靠撒谎来走红 There is a huge temptation to buy “zombie fans” or fake comments. First of all having a million fans for only a few likes and comments will definitely make your account look shady. Also, from time to time the platforms will purge fake accounts and might even punish you for it, so don’t accept weird propositions from strangers to sell you fans. Also you should rest assured that if you start working with a brand to help sell their product and you need to reach as many fans as possible you will have to pay the social media platform to help on that. And that kind of spending’s are usually part of the budget of the brand working with you. So just keep your head down and focus on having quality followers. 买僵尸粉或者做假评论是有很大风险的。首先如果拥有百万粉丝的帐号下仅仅只有几个点赞和评论，这样看起来就很假。其次平台也会时不时地清除一些僵尸号，到时候甚至你也会受到处罚，因此，不要相信那些卖僵尸粉的陌生人。再者，如果你开始和品牌商合作、销售他们的产品，你就需要向更多的粉丝做推广，这时你就不得不在社交平台上花钱推广了，通常这些费用都是你合作品牌预算的一部分（品牌商帮忙推广后如果产品销量仍然不好，他们可能就要怀疑你的影响力了）。所以还是埋头苦干创作内容、吸引更多有质量的粉丝吧。 This episode will be a two-part series on how the internet is changing content creation in China. Next month we will look at how today’s advertisements are light years away from what was done just 5 years ago. 针对“互联网是如何改变中国内容创作的”，我们制作了上下两集节目，本期是“上集”。下个月将播出“下集”：现在的广告与5年前有什么不同。 Thing we talked about and you might not know A Wǎng Hóng (网红) is a celebrity on Chinese internet. The infamous “internet water army” (网络水军 – wǎngluò shuǐjūn) are internet ghostwriters legendarily paid half a yuan for a hasty copy-pasted comments. The apps and websites that we talked about were : 抖音 (dōuyīn – video) 快手 (kuàishǒu – video) 星座棋谈 (xīngzuò qítán – entertainment) and 今日头条 (jīnrì tóutiáo – news) The red scarf (红领巾 – hónglǐngjīn) is an important symbol of the Young Pioneers of China. And hiring a porn star to wear it publicity for your brand can have long lasting consequences. Ben Jonhson and his colleagues were inspired by the youtube creators “MamaHuhu – 马马虎虎”. The young blogger that Erman mentionned is 曲玮玮 (qû wēi wēi).
Matthew Brennan, co-founder of China Channel and host of China Tech Talk, closes the Bytedance trilogy of Toutiao and Douyin with the Bytedance Group. We discuss the mission and vision of the Bytedance Group, an artificial intelligence technology company and where they are after raising US$3B from SoftBank recently. We discuss the product portfolio of Bytedance beyond Toutiao and Douyin, their business model of advertising which drives high profitability and why they are poised to take on Facebook in a global scale.
In episode 35 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about competitors to the reigning Chinese social media champion, WeChat. Specifically, they focus on three apps that all decided to launch on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, two weeks before Chinese New Year: Bytedance's Duoshan, Wang Xin's self-proclaimed “anti-WeChat” Toilet, and Bullet Messenger 2.0. Following their releases, WeChat promptly blocked links to all three. Our co-hosts ask: Does WeChat have a reason to be scared? Why was it so defensive? Is there truly a chance for any of these companies to topple Allen Zhang's miraculous creation? And if so, how would that come about? Rui and Ying-Ying begin by giving their perspective on WeChat's two main weaknesses. The first is its decreasing representation of young users, specifically, teenagers — a challenge that many other social networks that have been around for a while, including Facebook, also face. The second is the emergence of WeChat Moments as a battleground for user time. This development is a function of the intermingling of personal and professional relationships within one app, and the ensuing messy social graph that WeChat has accumulated. Our co-hosts go on to explain that all three of the apps that were launched this week tried to capitalize on one of the opportunities WeChat leaves open. They describe each product in more detail, delving into them in descending probability of success. Rui and Ying-Ying's top pick is Bytedance's Duoshan. They discuss: In what ways has the product stayed true to its short-video roots? How accurate is the Toutiao insider description of the app as a combination of “Snapchat's framework” plus “Instagram and Messenger's GIF function” and “Apple Watch's heartbeat”? Does it truly solve an organic user problem? As for Toilet, which proudly calls itself “the social network dark web,” just how reminiscent is it of the bygone Secret app in the U.S.? What is the opportunity that its founder sees in anonymous social networking, which, in fact, already exists in China, including in QQ itself? In third place is celebrity-investor-backed Bullet Messenger's 2.0 version. It has renamed itself Chat Treasure (聊天宝 liáotiān bǎo) and rebranded with a new logo, an image of a smiling gold ingot. The ingot serves as an apt reflection of the app's new positioning as a portal for poorer users who seek to make some money or find great deals. Rui and Ying-Ying argue that its main competitive advantage is its marketing and aggressive, gamified user acquisition tactics. Listen to find out: What do Rui and Ying-Ying conclude about each of these new entrants, and why? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Do let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, liking our Facebook page, and tweeting at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag! Thanks also to our listeners over at our partner, dealstreetasia.com. Finally, TechBuzz listeners in the Bay Area may sign up for Silicon Dragon's Silicon Valley event, taking place this week on January 24. You can find more information and sign up here: https://silicondragonvalley2019.eventbrite.com. Please use code SDValley2019Buzz for 50 percent off!
In episode 35 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about competitors to the reigning Chinese social media champion, WeChat. Specifically, they focus on three apps that all decided to launch on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, two weeks before Chinese New Year: Bytedance’s Duoshan, Wang Xin’s self-proclaimed “anti-WeChat” Toilet, and Bullet Messenger 2.0. Following their releases, WeChat promptly blocked links to all three. Our co-hosts ask: Does WeChat have a reason to be scared? Why was it so defensive? Is there truly a chance for any of these companies to topple Allen Zhang’s miraculous creation? And if so, how would that come about? Rui and Ying-Ying begin by giving their perspective on WeChat’s two main weaknesses. The first is its decreasing representation of young users, specifically, teenagers — a challenge that many other social networks that have been around for a while, including Facebook, also face. The second is the emergence of WeChat Moments as a battleground for user time. This development is a function of the intermingling of personal and professional relationships within one app, and the ensuing messy social graph that WeChat has accumulated. Our co-hosts go on to explain that all three of the apps that were launched this week tried to capitalize on one of the opportunities WeChat leaves open. They describe each product in more detail, delving into them in descending probability of success. Rui and Ying-Ying’s top pick is Bytedance’s Duoshan. They discuss: In what ways has the product stayed true to its short-video roots? How accurate is the Toutiao insider description of the app as a combination of “Snapchat’s framework” plus “Instagram and Messenger’s GIF function” and “Apple Watch’s heartbeat”? Does it truly solve an organic user problem? As for Toilet, which proudly calls itself “the social network dark web,” just how reminiscent is it of the bygone Secret app in the U.S.? What is the opportunity that its founder sees in anonymous social networking, which, in fact, already exists in China, including in QQ itself? In third place is celebrity-investor-backed Bullet Messenger’s 2.0 version. It has renamed itself Chat Treasure (聊天宝 liáotiān bǎo) and rebranded with a new logo, an image of a smiling gold ingot. The ingot serves as an apt reflection of the app’s new positioning as a portal for poorer users who seek to make some money or find great deals. Rui and Ying-Ying argue that its main competitive advantage is its marketing and aggressive, gamified user acquisition tactics. Listen to find out: What do Rui and Ying-Ying conclude about each of these new entrants, and why? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Do let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, liking our Facebook page, and tweeting at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag! Thanks also to our listeners over at our partner, dealstreetasia.com. Finally, TechBuzz listeners in the Bay Area may sign up for Silicon Dragon’s Silicon Valley event, taking place this week on January 24. You can find more information and sign up here: https://silicondragonvalley2019.eventbrite.com. Please use code SDValley2019Buzz for 50 percent off!
In Ep. 28 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about the Chinese AI company that recently toppled Uber to become the highest-valued startup in the world: Bytedance. Having just closed on $3 billion led by Softbank, the company is currently valued at $75 billion. Though our co-hosts have mentioned Bytedance across several previous episodes, including a focus on the company's war with Tencent in Episode 9, today is the first to delve into its founding story, and to give a snapshot of its key strengths and weaknesses. Bytedance's parent company was founded in 2012 with the buzzy mandate to “combine the power of AI with the growth of mobile internet to revolution the way people consume and receive information.” Six years later, the company's two main apps, news-oriented Toutiao and video-based Tik Tok, have over 260 million and over 500 million monthly active users respectively. In fact, Tik Tok, which is just a bit over two years old, was the most downloaded app in the world in the first quarter of 2018. Bytedance's success has affected key metrics of other leading Chinese internet companies. Notably, Tencent has seen its percentage of total internet user usage time drop between June 2017 and June 2018-- with nearly all of that 7 percent decline seemingly directed into Bytedance's family of apps. Indeed, Bytedance's lack of affiliation with either Tencent or Alibaba stands out. This lack of affiliation is due at least in part to Bytedance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming, a 35-year-old, even-keeled, through-and-through geek who has always been fiercely independent and ambitious. It's a well-known anecdote that in 2016, when asked by one of his executives about rumors that Tencent was going to acquire Bytedance, Zhang Yiming replied: “I didn't found Bytedance to become a Tencent executive.” Listen to the newest episode of TechBuzz China and join Rui and Ying-Ying in exploring: What about the hiring process, company culture, and work style of Toutiao make it unique, especially as compared with other Chinese companies? How does the fact that Toutiao is at least partly a content business affect how it does business in China and what its ultimate existential risks are? Is deeming Bytedance China's “Buzzfeed with Brains” an accurate description? Having already made plays for markets in Japan, India, Brazil, North America and Southeast Asia, what's next in the company's efforts to internationalize? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, liking our Facebook page, and tweeting at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag! Finally, a huge shoutout to our new listeners over at dealstreetasia.com.
In episode 28 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about the Chinese AI company that recently toppled Uber to become the highest-valued startup in the world: Bytedance. Having just closed on a $3 billion funding round led by SoftBank, the company is currently valued at $75 billion. Though our co-hosts have mentioned Bytedance across several previous episodes, including a focus on the company’s war with Tencent in episode 9, today’s episode is the first to delve into its founding story, and to give a snapshot of its key strengths and weaknesses. Bytedance’s parent company was founded in 2012 with the buzzy mandate to “combine the power of AI with the growth of mobile internet to revolutionize the way people consume and receive information.” Six years later, the company’s two main apps, news-oriented Toutiao and video-based TikTok, have over 260 million and over 500 million monthly active users, respectively. In fact, TikTok, which is just a bit over two years old, was the most downloaded app in the world in the first quarter of 2018. Bytedance’s success has affected the key metrics of other leading Chinese internet companies. Notably, Tencent has seen its percentage of total internet user usage time drop between June 2017 and June 2018 — with nearly all of the 7 percent decline seemingly directed into Bytedance’s family of apps. Indeed, Bytedance’s lack of affiliation with either Tencent or Alibaba stands out. This lack of affiliation is due at least in part to Bytedance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming, a 35-year-old, even-keeled, through-and-through geek who has always been fiercely independent and ambitious. It’s a well-known anecdote that in 2016, when asked by one of his executives about rumors that Tencent was going to acquire Bytedance, Zhang Yiming replied, “I didn’t found Bytedance to become a Tencent executive.” Listen to the newest episode of TechBuzz China and join Rui and Ying-Ying in exploring the following: What about the hiring process, company culture, and work style of Toutiao makes it unique, especially as compared with other Chinese companies? How does the fact that Toutiao is at least partly a content business affect how it does business in China? What are its ultimate existential risks? Is deeming Bytedance China’s “Buzzfeed with Brains” an accurate description? As the company has already made plays for markets in Japan, India, Brazil, North America, and Southeast Asia, what’s next in its efforts to internationalize? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, liking our Facebook page, and tweeting at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag! Finally, a huge shoutout to our new listeners over at dealstreetasia.com.
In Ep. 28 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about the Chinese AI company that recently toppled Uber to become the highest-valued startup in the world: Bytedance. Having just closed on $3 billion led by Softbank, the company is currently valued at $75 billion. Though our co-hosts have mentioned Bytedance across several previous episodes, including a focus on the company’s war with Tencent in Episode 9, today is the first to delve into its founding story, and to give a snapshot of its key strengths and weaknesses. Bytedance’s parent company was founded in 2012 with the buzzy mandate to “combine the power of AI with the growth of mobile internet to revolution the way people consume and receive information.” Six years later, the company’s two main apps, news-oriented Toutiao and video-based Tik Tok, have over 260 million and over 500 million monthly active users respectively. In fact, Tik Tok, which is just a bit over two years old, was the most d...
bu hafta iki büyük haber duyduk. çin merkezli bir girişim olan bytedance (tiktok, musical.ly ve Toutiao'nun sahibi) $75 milyar değerleme üzerinden $2.5 milyar dolar (evet milyar ve dolar rakamlar) yatırım aldığını açıkladı ve dünyadaki en değerli halka açık olmayan teknoloji girişimi oldu. daha önce listenin başında uber vardı, uber şu anda listede ikinci durumda. çin merkezli girişimler en unicorn listelerini ele geçirmiş durumda. peki nedir bu tiktok? biz de pek anladığımızı söyleyemeyeceğiz, anladığımız kadarını size aktarmaya çalıştık. bir diğer büyük haber ise IBM'in $34 milyar karşlığında 93 yılında kurulmuş olan ve linux ekosisteminin göbeğinde duran Red Hat adlı firmayı alması oldu. Red Hat nedir, acaba neden bu kadar değerli, 6 yıllık bir firma olan ByteDance / TikTok nasıl oluyorda Red Hat gibi köklü bir firmadan daha değerli oluyor gibi soruları cevaplamaya çalıştık.y-combinator'ın atmosferdeki karbonu azaltacak teknolojilere yatırım yapmayı planladığı program: http://carbon.ycombinator.com/dünyadaki en değerli startupların listesihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_companies(listede birinci antfinancial, aslında alibaba'nın bir iştirakidir. girişim demek pek doğru değil)tiktok nedir merak ediyorsanızhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDancehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTokredhat nedir merak ediyorsanız?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
Ist China inzwischen längst das innovativere Silicon Valley? Sollten wir für neue Trends nach Fernost schauen statt in die USA? t3n.de-Chefredakteur Stephan Dörner spricht dazu im Podcast mit China-Experte Tu-Lam Pham. Insgesamt neun der 20 größten Internet-Unternehmen der Welt kommen aus China. Die Volksrepublik ist ein „Mobile only“-Land, das die Nutzung von PCs und Laptops größtenteils übersprungen hat und bei vielen Themen vom mobilen Bezahlen bis zum Buchen von Arztterminen über das Smartphone sämtlichen westlichen Ländern längst davongezogen ist. Tu-Lam Pham, Berater für digitales Business, kennt durch seine Reisen ins Silicon Valley und nach China beide Welten. Im Gespräch mit t3n.de-Chefredakteur Stephan Dörner spricht er darüber, was China dem Westen voraus hat – und wie die Smartphone-Revolution das Land tiefgreifend verändert hat. Mit welchen harten Bandagen kämpft Alibaba gegen Tencent und umgekehrt? Werden die alten Tech-Größen aus China – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – auch bekannt als BAT-Ökonomie gerade durch ein neues Tech-Triumvirat aus Toutiao, Meituan-Dianping und Didi Chuxing abgelöst, auch bekannt als TMD? Und was können wir von all dem in Europa und Deutschland lernen? Tu-Lam Pham gewährt einen Einblick in die Digitalwirtschaft Chinas, die den Detailgrad der üblichen Presseartikel zum Thema weit übersteigt. Hinweis: Der Podcast wurde bereits am 15. August 2018 aufgenommen, da wir in den vergangenen Wochen immer Podcasts hatten, die einen aktuellen Zeitbezug hatten und daher zeitnah online gestellt werden mussten. Zum Zeitpunkt des Podcasts gab es nur einen Amazon-Go-Store in den USA, inzwischen gibt es drei. Sponsor-Hinweis (Anzeige): Der heutige Podcast wird von Ottonova präsentiert – der komplett digitalen Krankenversicherung: https://www.ottonova.de/lp/ebook-t3n
So far in 2018, Tencent's stock price has continued to tumble from analysts' price targets. Today, it sits at $430B, a far cry from its $570B market cap in January, and having done far worse than the market. Some commentators blame the decline on Tencent's Q2 results, which showed a 2 percent drop in earnings and was the company's first fall in profit in nearly 13 years. What is really going on here? What is the real cause, and what does it all mean for what is arguably still China's leading internet company? In this episode of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma take another close look at Tencent. TechBuzz first covered Tencent in Episode 5, and again in Episode 9. Fittingly, those episodes focused on public perception of Tencent's ability to innovate, as well as the robustness of Tencent's overall strategy - including against the likes of rising behemoth Toutiao. This week's Ep. 19 takes a more holistic view of the internal and external factors that may have contributed to Tencent's poor results. Listeners will also hear expert commentary by Lee Gao, Portfolio Manager at GCA, who helps run the firm's Emerging Markets Sustainable Growth Fund. Rui and Ying-Ying delve into many facets of the Tencent story, including: What was the significance of COO Mark Ren taking over the company's stalwart gaming sector, which accounts for over 50 percent of Tencent's revenues? What has been the greater impact of Tencent's protocol of having multiple internal teams work on the same product, with the best one declared winner? How has this type of strategy, and its accompanying lack of deep data integration, affected Tencent's domestic market share on metrics such as total mobile usage time, as well as its ability to collaborate deeply with partners such as Starbucks? What about the impact of other problems such unfavorable government policies, as well as Tencent's challenges getting games approved to be distributed in China? Listen to the newest episode of TechBuzz China and join our co-hosts on a journey down the rabbit hole, as they hunt for the real cause of Tencent's recent price decline. As they synthesize the rampant recent speculation by Chinese media into a mere 20-minute episode, listeners are left to ask themselves: can Tencent do it? Can they bring the lost $140B back? As always, you can find these stories and more at https://pandaily.com/. Let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, like our Facebook page, and don't forget to tweet at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag!
So far in 2018, Tencent’s stock price has continued to tumble from analysts’ price targets. Today, it sits at $430B, a far cry from its $570B market cap in January, and having done far worse than the market. Some commentators blame the decline on Tencent’s Q2 results, which showed a 2 percent drop in earnings and was the company’s first fall in profit in nearly 13 years. What is really going on here? What is the real cause, and what does it all mean for what is arguably still China’s leading internet company? In this episode of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma take another close look at Tencent. TechBuzz first covered Tencent in Episode 5, and again in Episode 9. Fittingly, those episodes focused on public perception of Tencent’s ability to innovate, as well as the robustness of Tencent’s overall strategy - including against the likes of rising behemoth Toutiao. This week’s Ep. 19 takes a more holistic view of the internal and external factors that may ...
So far in 2018, Tencent’s stock price has continued to tumble from analysts’ price targets. Today, it sits at $430 billion, a far cry from its $570 billion market cap in January. Some commentators blame the decline on Tencent’s Q2 results, which showed a 2 percent drop in earnings and was the company’s first fall in profit in nearly 13 years. What is really going on here? What is the real cause? And what does it all mean for what is arguably still China’s leading internet company? In this episode of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma take a close look at Tencent. TechBuzz first covered Tencent in episode 5, and again in episode 9. Fittingly, those episodes focused on public perception of Tencent’s ability to innovate, as well as the robustness of Tencent’s overall strategy — including against the likes of rising behemoth Toutiao. This week’s episode takes a more holistic view of the internal and external factors that may have contributed to Tencent’s poor results. Listeners will also hear expert commentary by Lee Gao, a portfolio manager at GCA, who helps run the firm’s Emerging Markets Sustainable Growth Fund. Rui and Ying-Ying delve into many facets of the Tencent story, including: What was the significance of COO Mark Ren taking over the company’s stalwart gaming sector, which accounts for over 50 percent of Tencent’s revenues? What has been the greater impact of Tencent’s protocol of having multiple internal teams work on the same product, with the best one declared the winner? How has this type of strategy — and its accompanying lack of deep data integration — affected Tencent’s domestic market share on metrics such as total mobile usage time, as well as its ability to collaborate deeply with partners such as Starbucks? Is Tencent’s mantra of “Connect everything,” its official vision since 2014, being realized to the extent that it can be, in our increasingly AI- and algorithm-driven world? What about the impact of other problems such as unfavorable government policies, as well as Tencent’s challenges in getting games approved to be distributed in China? Listen to the newest episode of TechBuzz China and join our co-hosts on a journey down the rabbit hole as they hunt for the real cause of Tencent’s recent price decline. While they synthesize the rampant recent speculation by Chinese media into a mere 20-minute episode, listeners are left to ask themselves: Can Tencent do it? Can they bring the lost $140 billion back? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, like our Facebook page, and don't forget to tweet at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag!
Matthew Brennan from China Channel and co-host of China Tech Talk joined us to discuss the mobile app Douyin aka Tik Tok (for the rest of the world) by Bytedance and why they are poised to be one of the new leading social media platform not just for China but for the rest of the world. We discussed the mechanics in how Douyin work for content creators and consumers and the monetisation model for the app, and how Douyin are now navigating the regulatory environment in China with their user generated content. Last but not least, we also discussed their ongoing feud with Tencent.
If you are new to the China market, or in the process of creating a digital strategy to reach your Chinese consumers, there is one tactic you just can’t ignore: KOL (key opinion leader) endorsement. I was pleased to received Lauren Hallanan who is an influencer, Chinese social media marketer In this #travelcast episode, we spoke on: Why Influencers are the Key to Attracting Chinese Travelers. Have you ever heard of a social media influencer with 4.5 million followers selling 100 cars (no, not virtual cars) in five minutes in the West? Probably not, but in China this is not an uncommon event in China’s KOL-driven economy. Qumin has created a brief overview of what makes the Chinese influencers' market far more powerful than in the West. China’s internet is mobile first According to the 2018 Abacus report, while China’s internet penetration is just over 50%, it still has 11x times more mobile payment users (527 million) than in the US. Chinese consumers order food through Eleme (饿了么), look up venues through Dianping (大众点评), pay their fees through Alipay (支付宝) , get their news from Toutiao (今日头条), shop in Taobao (淘宝) and find entertainment in Tik Tok (抖音). And of course socialize through the almighty WeChat apps, which also happens to have all the functions listed above. From a practicality perspective, there is literally no reason to browse from a desktop anymore. In 2017 only, Chinese app users spent around 225 billion hours in apps, which is 4.5 times longer than the second highest market - India. Links Website: http://laurenhallanan.com/ Podcast: http://www.chinainfluencermarketing.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-hallanan/
Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体，而TechBuzz China by Pandaily是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。TechBuzz China by Pandaily is a weekly technology podcast that is all about China's innovations. It is co-hosted by Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma, who are both seasoned China watchers with years of experience working in the technology space in China. They share and discuss the most important tech news from China every week with commentaries from investors, industry experts and entrepreneurs.This week on TechBuzz China by Pandaily, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma explain the fight between Bytedance and Tencent as sparked by the war in short-video apps. They trace it back to the humble beginnings of short-video apps and talk about the major players such as Xiaokaxiu, Musical.ly, and Kuaishou who had their 15 mins of fame along the way.Currently, the space is dominated by Tencent-backed Kuaishou and Bytedance's Douyin, while the other two members of BAT, Alibaba and Baidu, both announced that they will be releasing their own short-video apps as well. Who will come out on top in the vie for Chinese netizens' attentions? Listen to hear what Ying-Ying and Rui have to say!As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and don't forget to follow Pandaily on Twitter at @thepandaily, as well as TechBuzz at @TechBuzzChina!
Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体，而TechBuzz China by Pandaily是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。 TechBuzz China by Pandaily is a weekly technology podcast that is all about China's innovations. It is co-hosted by Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma, who are both seasoned China watchers with years of experience working in the technology space in China. They share and discuss the most important tech news from China every week with commentaries from investors, industry experts and entrepreneurs. This week on TechBuzz China by Pandaily, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma explain the fight between Bytedance and Tencent as sparked by the war in short-video apps. They trace it back to the humble beginnings of short-video apps and talk about the major players such as Xiaokaxiu, Musical.ly, and Kuaishou who had their 15 mins of fame along the way. Currently, the space is dominated by Tencent-backed Kuaishou and Bytedance’s Douyin, w...
Earlier this month, Tencent sued Bytedance, better known as Toutiao, for 1 yuan and Toutiao fought back by suing Tencent for 90 million yuan. What sparked the feud between the David and Goliath of the Chinese tech world? Listen to this week's episode of TechBuzz China by Pandaily to find out! TechBuzz China by Pandaily is a weekly technology podcast focused on giving you a peek into what’s buzzing within the tech community in China. It is co-hosted by Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma, who are both seasoned China-watchers with years of experience working in the technology space in China. They uncover and contextualize unique insights, perspectives, and takeaways on headline tech news that doesn’t always make it into English-language coverage. This week on TechBuzz China by Pandaily, Ying-Ying and Rui explain the fight between Bytedance and Tencent as sparked by the war in short-video apps. They trace it back to the humble beginnings of short-video apps and talk about the major players such as Xiaokaxiu, Musical.ly, and Kuaishou, which had their 15 minutes of fame along the way. Currently, the space is dominated by Tencent-backed Kuaishou and Bytedance's Douyin, while the other two members of BAT, Alibaba and Baidu, both announced that they will be releasing their own short-video apps as well. Who will come out on top in the competition for Chinese netizens’ attention? Listen to hear what Ying-Ying and Rui have to say! As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show, and don't forget to follow Pandaily on Twitter at @thepandaily, as well as TechBuzz at @TechBuzzChina!
GGV Capital's Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Yinglian Xie and Fang Yu, the co-founders of DataVisor, a fast-growing startup in Silicon Valley that provides big data security analytics for consumer-facing websites and apps. Its customers include some of the largest companies in the world, such as Alibaba, Dianping, Pinterest, Yelp, and Bytedance (a.k.a. Toutiao), among others. Both Yinglian and Fang have decades of experience in internet security, specifically on fighting large-scale attacks to online services, such as fraudulent online payments, spamming, user hijacking, search-result poisoning, etc. They were both senior researchers at Microsoft for many years before starting DataVisor in 2013, and have filed over 20 patents. Yinglian received her Ph.D. in computer science from CMU and a Bachelor's degree from Peking University. Fang holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree from Fudan University. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.
GGV Capital’s Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Yinglian Xie and Fang Yu, the co-founders of DataVisor, a fast-growing startup in Silicon Valley that provides big data security analytics for consumer-facing websites and apps. Its customers include some of the largest companies in the world, such as Alibaba, Dianping, Pinterest, Yelp, and Bytedance (a.k.a. Toutiao), among others. Both Yinglian and Fang have decades of experience in internet security, specifically on fighting large-scale attacks to online services, such as fraudulent online payments, spamming, user hijacking, search-result poisoning, etc. They were both senior researchers at Microsoft for many years before starting DataVisor in 2013, and have filed over 20 patents. Yinglian received her Ph.D. in computer science from CMU and a Bachelor’s degree from Peking University. Fang holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.
Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体，而TechBuzz China是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。This week on TechBuzz China, Rui and Ying-Ying talked about the recent news involving three Chinese unicorns: Toutiao, Didi, and Meituan. If you are interested in learning more about what's happening in China's technology sector, you can also follow us on Twitter @thepandaily and like TechBuzz China on Facebook. TechBuzz 中国将会每周更新，一定要订阅我们哦!
Pandaily.com是一家向世界科技社区介绍中国创新的英文媒体，而TechBuzz China是其旗下向硅谷介绍中国创新的英文播客。 This week on TechBuzz China, Rui and Ying-Ying talked about the recent news involving three Chinese unicorns: Toutiao, Didi, and Meituan. If you are interested in learning more about what’s happening in China’s technology sector, you can also follow us on Twitter @thepandaily and like TechBuzz China on Facebook. TechBuzz 中国将会每周更新，一定要订阅我们哦!
TechBuzz China is a short weekly podcast that talks all about China’s innovation, co-hosted by Rui Ma, who is an angel investor and entrepreneur, and Ying-Ying Lu, who is also an entrepreneur. The two hosts are both China experts who lived and worked in the technology space in China for many years. This week on TechBuzz China, Rui and Ying-Ying talk about the recent news involving three Chinese unicorns: Toutiao, Didi, and Meituan. Toutiao was recently under fire for posting fake ads on their flagship news app, but their punishment came in the form of a permanent ban on their jokes app, Neihan Duanzi, which you can read more about here. Rui compared the Toutiao CEO’s open apology with the Facebook CEO’s congressional hearing happening concurrently in the U.S. Ying-Ying shared news about Didi’s move into food delivery and what it means for the on-demand sector, which you can read about here. She also shared her thoughts and a personal story related to the recent acquisition of Chinese bike-sharing giant, Mobike, by the unicorn Meituan-Dianping, which you can also read more about here. If you are interested in learning more about what’s happening in China’s technology sector, you can also follow us on Twitter @thepandaily and like TechBuzz China on Facebook. If you would like to provide commentaries for the show, you can contact Rui or Ying-Ying on Twitter @ruima and @ginyginy.
At first glance, the investment strategy of veteran private equity manager Cynthia Zhang appears risky. As founder of recently launched private equity firm FutureX Capital, Zhang plans to make mid-to-late stage investments in promising Chinese tech stars, whose valuations are perhaps the highest in the world. China is home to 137 unicorns, or private companies valued at US$1 billion or more, boasting a combined valuation of US$659 billion. It's a concentration far greater than in any other nation, including the U.S., according to China Money Network's own China Unicorn Ranking. But Zhang, who formerly headed the private equity arm of China Asset Management Co., Ltd., one of China's largest fund managers, believes that it still makes sense to buy Chinese tech stars at what some might consider exhorbitant valuations to achieve returns of "two or three times of investment in one to two years." For example, Zhang reckons that the valuation of Chinese news recommendation and entertainment content platform Toutiao is "quite reasonable, even cheap," she told China Money Network during an interview at Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Center. She noted that Toutiao has a current valuation of US$20 billion, while recorded revenue of nearly RMB16 billion (US$2.55 billion) in 2017, up from RMB6 billion (US$955 million) in 2016. Baidu, by comparison, has a current market capitalization of US$77 billion, even though Baidu recorded revenue of just RMB13 billion in 2017. As such, Toutiao could be worth a lot more than its current price tag after an initial public offering. Another Chinese tech company Zhang feels bullish about is Xiaomi Inc, the Chinese smartphone and smart device maker. Xiaomi, she predicted, could be a more affordable version of Apple for the world's middle class consumers. Given the potential size of the global market, Zhang estimated that once the company starts to monetize its comprehensive and massive user data and generate revenues from other areas such as gaming, "(Xiaomi) could be worth probably over US$100 billion in two year’s time with potential to climb even higher." FutureX Capital has secured initial investor commitment of US$200 million, and Zhang is looking actively to invest into companies similar to Toutiao and Xiaomi. This investment strategy has worked for her in the past. While at the private equity arm of China Asset Management she and her team invested RMB13 billion (US$2.07 billion) across five funds from 2014 to 2018 into companies like Alibaba Group, Chinese photo touch-up app Meitu, Chinese Groupon-like company Meituan Dianping, ride hailing firm Didi Chuxing and Kingsoft Cloud. Most of these companies, despite large valuations, have seen valuations multiply steadily over the past few years. Read an edited interview Q&A below. Also subscribe to China Money Podcast for free in the iTunes store, or subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Q: Can you give us an overview of your past work and why you started your own fund? A: I started my investment career at one of the largest mutual fund managers in China, China Asset Management, and observed big changes in the investment industry and in our portfolio companies. In 2011, I proposed to expand the company's business into private equity. Over the next five years, we made concentrated investment into ten companies including Alibaba, Meitu, Dianping, Didi, Kingsoft Cloud and others, which have all assumed leading position in their respective industries. Out of those ten companies, we have exited from eight with IRR of over 50%. Q: Coming from a public equity mutual fund background, you must have both a public equity and private equity mindset. Can you tell us a little more about your new fund FutureX Capital and its investment strategy? A: When I founded the private equity business in China Asset Management in 2014, I made a very clear strategy to do mid-to-late stage investment, including PIPE (private investment in public equity),
Chenyu Zheng, former product marketing manager from Uber and now author, joined us in a two part conversation to discuss the unique digital experience in China and the Uber China mafia & their impact to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China after merger with Didi. In the first part, she discussed her major observations on the web and mobile apps in China and why they have evolved in a different way from their US counterparts. Last but not least, she also shared what she has learned from Allen Zhang, the founder of Wechat in product management.
GGV Capital's Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Liu Zhen, the senior vice president of Bytedance (Toutiao), one of the fastest-growing Chinese tech startups that has made a lot of headlines. You may know Bytedance through its flagship product, Jinri Toutiao (今日头条), a content discovery and recommendation mobile app platform that uses artificial intelligence to recommend content to its users. What you may be less familiar with is that Bytedance also owns some of the most popular short video apps in China, and has demonstrated its global vision with its recent merger with Musical.ly, a top-ranking short video app in many countries with hundreds of millions of users, and a GGV portfolio company. Prior to Bytedance, Liu Zhen led Uber's China team before it was acquired by Didi Chuxing (a GGV portfolio company) in 2016. With a background that includes being a lawyer in Silicon Valley, helping Uber scale in China, and spearheading Bytedance's global expansion, Zhen has had unique experiences that inform her views on the tech ecosystem in China and the U.S. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.
This week on Sinica, we bring you a special preview of a new podcast called 996 Podcast with GGV Capital, which we are very excited to co-produce. Subscribe to the 996 Podcast here on iTunes, and here on Stitcher. GGV Capital’s Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Jerry Yang, the founder and former CEO of Yahoo, who orchestrated arguably the best deal in tech history: In 2005, he arranged for Yahoo to invest $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in fledgling Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba at a post-money valuation of $5 billion. Today, Alibaba is worth almost half a trillion dollars. During the interview, Jerry conducts a postmortem for Yahoo’s China strategy, and offers advice for U.S. tech companies looking to expand into China. We’d love to hear your feedback! Please send comments and suggestions to 996@ggvc.com. GGV Capital also produces a weekly email newsletter in English, also called “996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital and co-produced by the Sinica Podcast. On this show, we interview movers and shakers of China's tech industry, as well as tech leaders who have a U.S.-China cross-border perspective. GGV Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. It has been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs since 2000 from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, ecommerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 200 companies, including Airbnb, Alibaba, Ctrip, Didi, Domo, HashiCorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Slack, Square, Toutiao, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others, with 29 IPOs and 22 unicorns to date. Find out more at ggvc.com.
GGV Capital’s Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Liu Zhen, the senior vice president of Bytedance (Toutiao), one of the fastest-growing Chinese tech startups that has made a lot of headlines. You may know Bytedance through its flagship product, Jinri Toutiao (今日头条), a content discovery and recommendation mobile app platform that uses artificial intelligence to recommend content to its users. What you may be less familiar with is that Bytedance also owns some of the most popular short video apps in China, and has demonstrated its global vision with its recent merger with Musical.ly, a top-ranking short video app in many countries with hundreds of millions of users, and a GGV portfolio company. Prior to Bytedance, Liu Zhen led Uber’s China team before it was acquired by Didi Chuxing (a GGV portfolio company) in 2016. With a background that includes being a lawyer in Silicon Valley, helping Uber scale in China, and spearheading Bytedance’s global expansion, Zhen has had unique experiences that inform her views on the tech ecosystem in China and the U.S. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.
Shai Oster, Asia Bureau Chief at The Information, joined us in a conversation to review the state of North East Asia in 2017. We discussed the five major events: SoftBank's Vision Fund, the expansion of Alibaba and Tencent into Southeast Asia and India while battling Google & Amazon in these open markets, China's imposing tougher regulations on both local & foreign tech companies, the ties between US & China tech companies, and the rise of Toutiao, Meituan-Dianping and Didi, with an additional conversation on Xiaomi's upcoming IPO in 2018.
This week we look back at Frank's recent Toutiao experience
On this week's episode, Amir admits he's never watched, Harry Potter. Also, Sean Parker is at it (again). This week's Five Favorites: 1. Sean Parker unloads on Facebook: “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains” [Axios] 2. The Magic of Harry Potter is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You [NianticLabs] 3. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is redesigning Snapchat because it’s too hard to use [Recode] 4. Disney Lays Down the Law for Theaters on “Star Wars - The Last Jedi” [WSJ] 5. (Hot Topic) China’s Toutiao is buying Musical.ly in a deal worth $800M-$1B [TechCrunch] Honorable Mention(s) Creating Your Resume Just Got a Whole Lot Easier with Microsoft and LinkedIn [LinkedIn Blog] DISHonorable Mention(s) Facebook trialing system to combat revenge porn – but you have to upload your nudes … [9 to 5 Mac] Five Favorites' Tweet(s) of The Week @Indiequick Use the hashtag #FiveFavorites to share YOUR favorite stories each and every week - and YOU may be included on the show (including our new tweet of the week feature).
This week Matt and John talk with Dannie Li, an analyst at China Tech Insights about Jinri Toutiao, a Chinese content aggregator recently valued at $20 billion, including: Why Jinri Toutiao is so popular How it is so sticky Its business model and why its valuation is high Why advertisers love it so much Risks to the app and business model Conflicts between Toutiao and content producers Challenges as Toutiao expands inside and outside China
Matthew Brennan from China Channel joined us in a fascinating conversation on Toutiao, one of the new emerging mobile apps focused on AI and their applications in news and information. We discussed the chronology, product & services and business models behind Toutiao’s rise among the 2nd wave of technology giants (Toutiao, Meituan-Dianping & Didi) in The post Episode 187: Toutiao with Matthew Brennan appeared first on Analyse Asia.
According to data analysis by news portal Toutiao.com, weight loss, diabetes, cancer,nutrition and traditional Chinese medicine are among the most popular topicswith Chinese people who habitually follow health news and information online. Whatare people most concerned about their health? What's your concern?
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