Ep. 256 TikTok and Instagram Reels EXPLAINED!

Sorta Awesome

Cloud10

Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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If the recent news headlines about TikTok have left you wondering what you are missing, or if you magically started seeing Reels in your Instagram feed and have been asking what the heck is going on, this episode is for you! This week, Meg and Rebekah get together to talk about all things TikTok, Instagram Reels, and the future of video in social media. Plus there's brand new TV talk and a life-changing Amazon discovery in Awesome of the Week! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Legacy Box: Go to legacybox.com/AWESOME to get 40% off your first order LinkedIn: Go to linkedin.com/AWESOME and get a $50 credit toward your first job post. Terms and conditions apply. EveryPlate: Get three weeks of EveryPlate meals for only 2.99 per meal by going to EveryPlate.com and entering code awesome3 True Botanicals: Get 15% off your first purchase at truebotanicals.com/awesome Thank you to all of our Sorta Awesome sponsors! SHOW NOTES: Rebekah's AotW: Big Brother Meg’s AotW: The Amazon jumpsuit You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:09.0	Join June Parker as she uncovers hidden objects and clues to solve her sister's death in a beautifully
0:14.4	illustrated world set in the roaring 20s. With new chapters added every week,
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0:28.1	games.
0:29.1	It's August 14th and this is episode 256. You are invited to join me and my dear friend and long time co-host Rebecca Hoffer of simply Rebecca.com and today we are here to explain all things, Tik-talk, and now
0:46.5	Instagram Reals and why it's all over the news these days. I'm Meg Teats and this is sort of awesome. Hello and this is awesome's you are listening to this show that's all about
1:06.3	bringing you awesome conversations, friendships, and community. Whether you found
1:11.4	us through Facebook, Instagram, Tik-Tock, YouTube, maybe a friend recommended us to you or maybe you're here from our other show, Awesome Today,
1:20.0	it is truly awesome that you are here. Again, this is episode 256 and today I'm visiting with my dear friend Rebecca,
1:27.5	the person who has been evangelizing the awesomeness of Tik-Tok to me for a long time long before it was all over the news
1:36.5	Rebecca Hoffer how are you my friend? Oh I'm laughing so hard have I really been pushing the Tik-Tok agenda your way?
1:46.4	You have been the engineer of the Tik-Tauk train for months and months now and I was reluctant but Rebecca once you got me on board I have not looked back.
1:59.6	Oh that's fantastic. I can't wait to talk about it. It's going to be fun. It is going to be fun. We have a lot to talk about. We are not here to talk about the news or the politics of Tik-Toc. We're not here to give you a social media
2:13.1	users guide to using Instagram Reals, none of that.
2:16.5	We are just two people who very much love TikTok,
2:19.8	who are very curious and maybe mildly skeptical about what Instagram is doing with
2:25.7	reels but you guys we've been playing around with this we've been having fun
2:29.4	with it for months really and so we just want to have a conversation because it truly is all over the news right now
2:37.5	headlines everywhere talking about Tik-Tok so a lot of people who thought that this was just a sort of passing fad for the kids these days are suddenly
2:46.0	sitting up and kind of doing some Google searching on what is this all about.
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