70: WeChat vs TikTok: China's Stories

This week saw a multitude of messaging app announcements. First was WeChat's Open Class PRO featuring a four-hour speech from Allen Zhang. Then, on the same day, Bytedance announced their own messaging app (Duoshan 多闪), what appears to be a clone of Snapchat, and Bullet Messenger announced their upgrade and rebrand to Liaotianbao (聊天宝). All three events, and the recent update to WeChat 7.0, raise interesting questions about the messaging market, WeChat's primacy, and the ascendancy of Bytedance. Links WECHAT FOUNDER'S 4 HOUR TALK: FULL NOTES WeChat pins future on Chinese users' growing penchant for video, photo Bytedance takes on WeChat with new video messaging app Bullet Messenger creators developing new messaging app WeChat blocks three social networking challengers within one day Hosts John Artman , @knowsnothing , TechNode Matthew Brennan , @MattyBGoooner, ChinaChannel Producer Peter Isachenko Podcast information iTunes RSS feed Music: "Theme from Penguins on Parade" by Lee Rosevere , Music for Podcasts 3

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70: WeChat vs TikTok: China's Stories is an episode from China Tech Talk by TechNode.

This episode is 56:31 long.

This episode was published on Jan 16, 2019.

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