TikTok's users spend 17.6 million hours a day watching Reels, which is their version of that. This is the biggest company in the world, Facebook at this. And they're getting their clocks cleaned, so to speak, from TikTok. Amazon spending $15 billion on programming including sports this year has spent ahead of Netflix, 13.6 billion,. Disney's 9.5 and Apple's 6 billion.
Kara and Scott are back to discuss the demise of a journalism antitrust bill, as well as a potential deal between Vice and a Saudi media giant. Also, Twitter says payments to a whistleblower shouldn't affect its deal with Elon Musk. Then, Friend of Pivot Mark Bergen chats about his new book, “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination.” Plus, Scott was on Bill Maher!
You can read the statement we mentioned from Little People of America here.
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