TikTok is setting themselves up as an American company
— Jake (@JustJake) May 18, 2020
I’m conflicted. On one hand TikTok is killing it and I love to watch well oiled machines win
On the other, the CCP now has all our data
It unironically might be China’s best spearhead into Americahttps://t.co/vXfKAsekka
My take: TikTok originals coming soon? They’d crush Quibi for good. Potential record label?
— Vincenzo Landino (@vincenzolandino) May 18, 2020
Big mood. https://t.co/rJyGR4L4Aw
Huge move and shows that TikTok has a massive future ahead. https://t.co/M38l9yFzfn
— DC (@donal_cahalane) May 18, 2020
Huge. Kevin Mayer was considered to be one of the top candidates to replace Bob Iger. https://t.co/tYpc8ixwcx
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) May 18, 2020
TikTok has a new CEO — the head of Disney Plus - https://t.co/2qZCJEPVYU
— Ben Parr (@benparr) May 18, 2020
WOW, should have named him faux-CEO over the parks guy https://t.co/ZWZt8kS9at
— Abner Li (@technacity) May 18, 2020
ah yes the classic Cayman Islands HQ setup https://t.co/oMFrkClcZy
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) May 18, 2020
Maybe someone will now do the definitive story on this guy and his management style and work behavior. https://t.co/8M4M4rYWI9
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) May 18, 2020
BIG hire https://t.co/lItxnRPS3j
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) May 18, 2020
Passed over for CEO, in favor of a guy who seemingly is fine operating in Iger's shadow, Mayer goes for the high growth opportunity! https://t.co/YYQwFH37Pj
— TV ? Reaper (@TVGrimReaper) May 18, 2020
Wow, Kevin Mayer resigned, he’s been Disney’s Head of Streaming since March 2018. https://t.co/gs1zyU4E82
— Skyler Shuler (@SkylerShuler) May 18, 2020
After losing the race to become Disney's new CEO, Kevin Mayer is leaving to run a slightly different media company: https://t.co/StirDgoqjj
— Ben Fritz (@benfritz) May 18, 2020
WOW. Big get for TikTok https://t.co/UcRH4BHrvx
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 18, 2020
More ByteDance apps are coming to the west, undoubtedly. Mayer is specifically mentioned as being in charge of Helo, which is ByteDance's kind-of Facebook, outside China in the ByteDance press release . So more headaches for Hawley (6/13) https://t.co/A0L0TtXRbD
— Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) May 19, 2020
Boom : Mister @disneyplus become King of @tiktok_us https://t.co/i9rEqpE6Tv
— Dominique Delport (@domdelport) May 18, 2020
⚡️ That boom you hear is one of the most noteworthy execs in legacy media saying "see ya" Disney and climbing aboard a digital/mobile ? at @tiktok_us https://t.co/WITsJIY7vC
— Rich Greenfield, LightShed (@RichLightShed) May 18, 2020
Scoop: Disney's head of streaming to become CEO for TikTok. Also contains news of his successor and new theme park chairman. https://t.co/poesexCtP7
— Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) May 18, 2020
TikTok brings on a seasoned American exec as CEO: Kevin Mayer from Disney, who was passed over for CEO role there. It could boost Bytedance’s efforts to distance it and TikTok from its Chinese roots. https://t.co/yoTvNWp5gs by @byshanli @erichschwartzel
— Yoko Kubota (@Kubota_Yoko) May 19, 2020
So Bytedance names this guy COO.
— Elliott Zaagman (@ElliottZaagman) May 19, 2020
This is like a PRC national with no experience in the US getting put into Sheryl Sandberg’s position.
Think about how absurd that is. Any chance he actually performs that role? https://t.co/V65ZLLrIK4
If you're just waking up, there are *a bunch* of interesting things about ByteDance tapping up Disney's streaming chief to become TikTok's CEO... (1/13)
— Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) May 19, 2020
Tiktoks entire PR defense was centered around how it wasn’t connected to its Chinese parent company
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) May 18, 2020
Naturally their new CEO is now also appointed as their Chinese parent company’s COO
I hope Mr. Mayer enjoys the look of a Congressional hearing room https://t.co/MqCD7mQsa8
TikTok Appoints New CEO in Disney Executive Kevin Mayer https://t.co/dPqh7nAdq9 #SocialMediaMarketing #ContentMarketing #DigitalStrategy pic.twitter.com/5KeyRnrK7L
— Ramon Tonnaer (@RamonTonnaer) May 19, 2020
TikTok has a new CEO — now he has to deal with music labels, competing apps, and angry senators https://t.co/togoJJOMh1 pic.twitter.com/mGDwtxijU6
— The Verge (@verge) May 19, 2020
디즈니의 스트리밍서비스 담당 임원이 틱톡 CEO로 이직 https://t.co/tjwQa3IL1l 디즈니에서 가장 중요한 디즈니플러스 신사업담당 임원이 중국스타트업으로 이직했다는 것인데 좀 놀라움. 물론 그 바이트댄스라는 스타트업은 전세계에서 가장 잘 나가는 유니콘회사이긴 하지만.
— 에스티마 (@estima7) May 19, 2020
Scoop: Disney's head of streaming to become CEO for TikTok. Also contains news of his successor and new theme park chairman. https://t.co/poesexCtP7
— Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) May 18, 2020
Disney’s Head of Streaming Kevin Mayer has left the company to become the CEO of TikTok.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 18, 2020
Rebecca Campbell will be the new Head of Streaming for Disney.
(Source: https://t.co/IyT2AKVysA) pic.twitter.com/PTzhx8q58M
The new TikTok CEO is jacked? Dude looks like if John Cena ran a social network https://t.co/gPS21vib4a
— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) May 18, 2020
This says a lot about the future of mobile video. Only going up from here. https://t.co/IWKBn3cihK
— john (@john) May 19, 2020
Disney streaming chief leaves to become CEO of TikTokhttps://t.co/PUYBeXub2w
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) May 19, 2020
TikTok has a new CEO — now he has to deal with music labels, competing apps, and angry senators https://t.co/5Kbngk2mcJ pic.twitter.com/Xu8PD0wG4v
— The Verge (@verge) May 20, 2020
I literally laughed out loud at thishttps://t.co/h14A2Q86KF pic.twitter.com/iyv4azj5NF
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) May 19, 2020
これ、映像コンテンツ業界にとっては結構なインパクトのあるニュースよな。
— すぎもとあや@フリーランス人事×1型糖尿病? (@aya190106) May 19, 2020
って今この本を読みながら思ってる
NETFLIX コンテンツ帝国の野望 :GAFAを超える最強IT企業 https://t.co/oN6iTRbXEI
Disney's Head of Streaming, Kevin Mayer, Becomes TikTok C.E.O. https://t.co/WHFGhosyDP
うわー。 これは参りましただ。
— Yamato @Jakarta (@Yamato0010) May 20, 2020
夢の国、アメリカを代表するディズニー幹部が、中国TikTok CEOに。 これはもうビジネスであり、政治であり、戦争だ。 https://t.co/sC2h5cSobC
Kevin Mayer, who was in charge of streaming for Disney, helping launch Disney+ (and surprisingly also worked for Playboy in between his two non-consecutive Disney stints), has left the company to run the popular video site TikTok: https://t.co/3ZOKBKgWnH
— Ryan W. Mead (@rwmead) May 18, 2020