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CNBC

Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

CNBC's Julia Boorstin sat down with Buzzer CEO, Bo Han, to talk about the company's latest growth initiatives. Buzzer is a short-form, live video platform that allows users to access some of the biggest moments in sports right from their phone.

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone. I'm Julia Borsden. I'm very excited to be here for our Tech

0:05.0

Check Plus live stream with Bohan, the CEO of Buzzar. Bo, thanks so much for joining us this morning.

0:10.7

Hey, Julia, good morning. Thanks for having me.

0:13.2

So you have some big news. Let's start with the news before we get into Buzzer and the future

0:17.7

of sports. What is this news that you're announcing with DeZone?

0:21.6

Today we are proud to announce our partnership with the Zone, our first multi-sport streaming

0:27.6

partnership that allows friction-free access to live moments in boxing for the year of 2022.

0:36.6

So what does that actually mean for consumers?

0:39.3

Friction-free access?

0:40.3

Are you talking about short video clips?

0:42.3

What will this mean for consumers who want to access that boxing content?

0:45.3

Yeah, so that's a great question.

0:47.3

We want to sit in between long-form live that's really optimized for linear television

0:52.3

and short-form near-live clips that are really optimized for Twitter, and short form near live clips that are really optimized

0:55.0

for Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. So how does buzzer and the zone really cornered this

1:01.6

market around short form live that's really optimized for mobile? So simply put, you let us know

1:06.8

what you're interested in and we'll let you know when those interesting moments happen.

1:10.2

So let's take a step back. Why do you explain what is buzzer? What is this business? I know you

1:15.6

came from Twitter. You have a lot of experience with this short form content, the way people are

1:21.4

increasingly communicating now, but what is your business? Yeah, Buzzer is a notification first live

1:27.4

platform that gives you friction-free access to live

1:30.3

moments in sports.

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