meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Business Wars

TikTok vs Instagram | Lights Out | 5

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's July 2020. TikTok usage has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it faces an unexpected threat — powerful politicians with their own agenda. Now, TikTok must find a solution or risk being shut down in the U.S. 

Instagram, meanwhile, strikes back with a new feature. It's another copycat product the company's putting front and center for its 1 billion users. And one that could spell trouble for TikTok. 

 Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/businesswars.

Support us by supporting our sponsors!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars at free on Amazon music. Download the app today

0:17.2

August 2020 a mansion in the Hollywood Hills

0:21.0

Bryce Hall leans against a marble counter in his giant white kitchen holding a bottle of champagne

0:26.3

with dark hair and a chisel jaw hall is dressed in a black hoodie and sweatpants

0:32.5

all around him people are drinking and dancing recording videos and sharing them with their

0:37.1

millions of followers it's another wild night at the infamous sway house a home base for a

0:42.8

collective of young good-looking tiktok stars essentially a frat house where members record tiktok

0:49.0

all day sway house is one of nearly a dozen hubs in Los Angeles filled with young tiktokers

0:55.2

buying for attention hall pops the champagne and turns to a friend here get a shot of me

1:01.0

chugging from the bottle hell yeah that looks sick hall is tiktok's bad boy and one of the

1:08.2

apps most famous influencers thanks to his antics he's racked up more than 13 million followers

1:15.6

of all the incubating influencer hubs in LA sway house parties the hardest even during a pandemic

1:22.3

tonight more than a hundred people crowd the living room none of them wearing masks were social

1:28.7

distancing and it hasn't gone unnoticed what's that dude the cops are here they're milling

1:39.1

around out front hall runs out and opens the gate for an LAPD officer sir we've received noise

1:45.7

complaints about a large gathering at your house tonight it's just a few friends hanging out

1:50.5

the officer looks toward the house he is unemused this is the third time this week we've been

1:58.3

called to this address i don't want to have to come back here again with that the officers leave

2:06.0

the night continues but the next morning hall wakes up to an unexpected message

2:14.3

it's a tweet from LA mayor Eric Garcetti today i authorize the city to disconnect utility

2:21.9

service at a house in the Hollywood Hills to stop the large parties hell there in flagrant

2:27.4

violation of our public health orders parties like these can quickly and easily spread the virus

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.