Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Kevin Mayer, who led the rise of Walt Disney Co.'s streaming business and served as the architect of blockbuster deals, is leaving the company to run the fast-growing mobile video app TikTok, the company said Monday. Mayer will become chief executive of TikTok as well as chief operating officer of its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Mayer’s departure comes shortly after to succeed Bob Iger as its CEO in late February. Iger, who’d been CEO for 15 years, took on the role of executive chairman. AdvertisementMany industry insiders...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Kevin Mayer, who led the rise of Walt Disney Co.'s streaming business and served as the architect of blockbuster deals, is leaving the company to run the fast-growing mobile video app TikTok, the company said Monday. Mayer will become chief executive of TikTok as well as chief operating officer of its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Mayer’s departure comes shortly after to succeed Bob Iger as its CEO in late February. Iger, who’d been CEO for 15 years, took on the role of executive chairman. AdvertisementMany industry insiders...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For weeks, Charlie Gu has been preparing for the door to close on WeChat. A San Francisco marketing agency owner whose business helps American brands reach Chinese consumers, Gu uses the mobile communications app extensively in his personal and professional lives. Since the Trump administration issued executive orders banning WeChat and TikTok, another popular Chinese-owned mobile app, on Aug. 6, Gu has been answering clients’ questions about what it means for them. Still, when the U.S. Commerce Department that the WeChat ban would...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For weeks, Charlie Gu has been preparing for the door to close on WeChat. A San Francisco marketing agency owner whose business helps American brands reach Chinese consumers, Gu uses the mobile communications app extensively in his personal and professional lives. Since the Trump administration issued executive orders banning WeChat and TikTok, another popular Chinese-owned mobile app, on Aug. 6, Gu has been answering clients’ questions about what it means for them. Still, when the U.S. Commerce Department that the WeChat ban would...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With the future of TikTok imperiled as President Trump in the U.S., an L.A.-based economy that has sprung up in just the last two years for the app’s mostly young creators and influencers is at risk of tumultuous change.TikTok is not just a fun diversion for bored lip-syncing teens.The startling popularity of the app has already given rise to a new Hollywood industry, with the most popular TikTok stars raking in tens of thousands of dollars per month; entire management companies have sprouted to manage these talents.Aspiring TikTok...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With the future of TikTok imperiled as President Trump in the U.S., an L.A.-based economy that has sprung up in just the last two years for the app’s mostly young creators and influencers is at risk of tumultuous change.TikTok is not just a fun diversion for bored lip-syncing teens.The startling popularity of the app has already given rise to a new Hollywood industry, with the most popular TikTok stars raking in tens of thousands of dollars per month; entire management companies have sprouted to manage these talents.Aspiring TikTok...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Quibi Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is widely known as one of Hollywood’s biggest fundraisers for the Democratic Party. So it was all the more surprising that the Democratic National Convention Committee did not list Meg Whitman’s title as CEO of Quibi when announcing her as a speaker at the .The committee described Whitman as former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a role she has not held since 2015, and conspicuously made no mention of her current role at the Hollywood start-up.The omission quickly became a buzzy topic on Twitter, with...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Quibi Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg is widely known as one of Hollywood’s biggest fundraisers for the Democratic Party. So it was all the more surprising that the Democratic National Convention Committee did not list Meg Whitman’s title as CEO of Quibi when announcing her as a speaker at the .The committee described Whitman as former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a role she has not held since 2015, and conspicuously made no mention of her current role at the Hollywood start-up.The omission quickly became a buzzy topic on Twitter, with...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement U.S. radio broadcaster iHeartMedia said Wednesday it was buying Sherman Oaks-based ad technology company Triton Digital for $230 million to further expand its podcasting business. Triton’s software helps podcasters and other audio streamers measure their audience and insert ads in their programs, while also providing technology to help advertisers better target consumers. The acquisition of Triton, which is owned by E.W. Scripps Co., follows other recent purchases that iHeartMedia has made, including acquiring podcast analytics...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement U.S. radio broadcaster iHeartMedia said Wednesday it was buying Sherman Oaks-based ad technology company Triton Digital for $230 million to further expand its podcasting business. Triton’s software helps podcasters and other audio streamers measure their audience and insert ads in their programs, while also providing technology to help advertisers better target consumers. The acquisition of Triton, which is owned by E.W. Scripps Co., follows other recent purchases that iHeartMedia has made, including acquiring podcast analytics...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With Los Angeles County now a leading hot spot of America’s coronavirus crisis, the statistics are hard to process. A person is dying every 10 minutes. And Mayor Eric Garcetti noted Sunday that a person was getting infected every six seconds.But one thing about the pandemic has not changed during the darkest phase: those who suffer most. For those with the means to stay home and the ability and determination to avoid gatherings, COVID-19 has remained a relatively low risk. For people living in crowded conditions and who must work,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With Los Angeles County now a leading hot spot of America’s coronavirus crisis, the statistics are hard to process. A person is dying every 10 minutes. And Mayor Eric Garcetti noted Sunday that a person was getting infected every six seconds.But one thing about the pandemic has not changed during the darkest phase: those who suffer most. For those with the means to stay home and the ability and determination to avoid gatherings, COVID-19 has remained a relatively low risk. For people living in crowded conditions and who must work,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When former TV executive Hernan Lopez heard the gripping he was hooked. He believed the public radio series was the start of new form of storytelling that would inspire the idea behind his start-up.Four years after its launch, Wondery has grown into one of the nation’s largest podcast publishers, drawing acclaim for producing compelling audio programs based on real-life stories. Some, like the medical malpractice investigation “Dr. Death” and the true crime story “,” which was produced in partnership with the L.A. Times and reported...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When former TV executive Hernan Lopez heard the gripping he was hooked. He believed the public radio series was the start of new form of storytelling that would inspire the idea behind his start-up.Four years after its launch, Wondery has grown into one of the nation’s largest podcast publishers, drawing acclaim for producing compelling audio programs based on real-life stories. Some, like the medical malpractice investigation “Dr. Death” and the true crime story “,” which was produced in partnership with the L.A. Times and reported...WW…