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Musical.ly may be blowing up as a social video service, but it’s scaling back the amount of apps it offers. The company has informed TechCrunch that it’s dropping its stand-alone livestreaming client, Live.ly, and rolling its features into its main lip-syncing app. Fire up Live.ly now and you’ll only be steered toward a download for […]
Matthias Nareyek/Getty Lisa and Lena Mantler, 15-year-old twins from Germany, have one of the fastest-growing fan bases on the internet. You’ve probably never heard of them, but the teen in your life has. The girls are the reigning queens of Musical.ly, the social-media app of choice for Generation Z. Teens record and post 15-second clips […]
BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Musical.ly, a teen-focused lip-syncing app with 60 million monthly active users (MAU), has been acquired by Chinese media company Bytedance, The Wall Street Journal reports. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, though the deal is reportedly worth between $ […]
The popular teen lip-syncing app Musical.ly has been purchased by Chinese firm Bytedance — the company behind China’s major news aggregating service Jinri Toutiao. The details of the deal haven’t been disclosed but sources told the Wall Street Journal that the app sold for somewhere between $ 800 million and $ 1 billion. Since its […]
Musical.ly debuts its first original shows today — the first of a few it will be rolling out over the coming weeks. The company has signed original content deals with entertainment groups Viacom, NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines. It was rumored last month that the music video app might be offering this sort of content soon, […]
Musical.ly might have professionally made original shows to offer along with user-produced content sometime in the future. According to Bloomberg, the music video app is currently talking to Viacom and Comcast’s NBCUniversal about creating original programming for its users. Musical.ly is reportedly interested in interactive shows that encourage the community to participate instead of heavily […]
Musical.ly, the social platform for creating and sharing short videos beloved by teens, is releasing a new app to build upon its success. The Chinese startup (which, by its own account, boasts 100 million users on its flagship service) recently debuted a new video messaging offering for iOS entitled “Ping Pong.” There’s just one major problem: […]
