TikTok, Museums, the Audio Explosion, and Other Trends in Entertainment
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss a variety of trends from the world of entertainment — including TikTok, the resurgence of museums, the audio explosion, newspaper paywalls, spiked seltzer, entertainment genres, and binge-watching vs. appointment-viewing.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone here listening to After Hours I'm Yonge Me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.3 | Felix and me here hey guys how are you good I'm so excited so we are doing a special episode this week that we've been actually |
| 0:55.8 | wanting to do for a while forever an episode on entertainment there are all of these interesting phenomena occurring in the world of entertainment |
| 1:06.9 | that we never really have a chance to talk about. |
| 1:09.0 | So in this episode, we're just going to talk about some of the things that have really caught our eye |
| 1:14.0 | trends dynamics and the ways in which we love to consume entertainment because we all kind of are a little bit of entertainment |
| 1:19.6 | mavens and this is our corresponding tribute to the world of entertainment. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, so I'm excited. |
| 1:25.4 | Great. |
| 1:26.4 | Can I go first, please? Yes, you go first. I am dying to tell you how much I love |
| 1:38.4 | Tik-Tok. It is just incredible. It's this gift of humanity. I cannot begin to describe to you. |
| 1:47.9 | How wonderful it is. I guess by now, you know, unless you've been hiding under some really big rock. |
| 1:55.7 | It's an app that people use, I think almost exclusively on mobile phones, and it's basically |
| 2:01.4 | snippets of video, mostly with music and what I absolutely love about it is |
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