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Lieberman: Short-form video agencies will commoditize and suffer poor retention
“I fear those agencies are going, they're going to be super commoditized because they're very easy to spin up. I worried that retention of customers wouldn't be high because it would be hard for customers who are, let's say, paying 3000 dollars a month to actua…”
Pujji: TikTok is the exact asset Microsoft has wanted for two decades
“Microsoft, on the other hand, this is the asset they've been waiting for like two decades.”
Alex Lieberman: 10% of social content drives 90% of audience growth
“There very much is kind of this power law of there are, let's call it. 10% of your, whether it's tweets, Whether it's your TikTok videos, whether it's your YouTube videos that contribute to 90% of your followers or subscribers.”
Jesse Pujji: Never spend more than $50 daily when launching social ads
“Facebook and TikTok, I mean, there's overhead and learning how to use their platforms. That's real. And so I would never start by spending more than 50 bucks a day.”
Pujji: Creators Should Fear Irrelevance and Low Quality, Not Public Judgment
“Your problem is not going to be that people are going to see your content and judge you. It's going to be that your content's not very good, and they're not going to see it. And like, but that's the reality of all these things, right? Like, the more I've been …”
Pujji: Adopting established 'best practice' video hooks is usually too late
“By the time the thing makes its way to a best practice hook, it's basically too late.”
Medeiros: 70% to 80% of short-form video success depends on the hook
“So I'll say about 80 through 70% of the video is just like the hook, which is like the 1:03 seconds.”
Pujji: Future e-commerce websites will look like TikTok and Instagram
“The e-comm website hasn't changed in 15 years and we're going to give all the tools to the merchants to make them, it's going to look just like TikTok and Instagram in the future.”
Amoruso: Twitter DMs Drive Real Professional Opportunities Unlike Instagram or TikTok
“Opportunities. Like, this don't come through DMs on Instagram. They don't come through TikTok. It's how I met Sam Parr. Like, it's how I've met people who've become really influential in my life. Like, that doesn't happen on Instagram.”
Amoruso: Scarcity mechanisms drive habit formation across social media and retail
“I think scarcity is a really big mechanism, which Be Real is capitalizing on. I think with TikTok, even the trends are a bit of a scarcity model in terms of like, you need to get on this now. It's going to become outdated. Same with fashion, same with news. So…”
Lieberman: Food influencers will evolve into digital restaurants via ghost kitchens
“I think where food influence, so anyone on Instagram, TikTok, et cetera, who is building personality and doing so in the food category, where it is going is I think these people are going to become restaurants in their own right.”