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🎥 Edelkrone's Revolutionary Motorized Tripod
TikTok's Assault on YouTube 📹, Edelkrone’s tripod—more than just legs 🎥, UMG and TikTok’s discordant note 🎵.
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Lights, Camera, Motorized Tripod Action! Edelkrone's latest is here to make your on-set life as smooth as Spielberg's. Keep reading, you aspiring Kubrick.
In today's rundown:
🎥 Edelkrone's fancy tripod
📹 TikTok's YouTube takeover
🎵 UMG kills TikTok vibe
🔥 Press Worthy Stories
📚 Learn & Grow
Read time: 3 minutes
VISUAL CREATORS
Motorized tripod, anyone?
Edelkrone just dropped the Tripod X, and it’s not your average three-legged buddy.
This bad boy’s ‘fully motorized’ and can level up your camera game faster than you can say ‘cheese.’
No more yoga-like contortions to get the perfect angle; the Tripod X’s got you covered with its height-adjusting smarts and can even handle rough terrain.
It’s not exactly feather-light, but with great power comes a 9-kilo weight, right?
Oh, and it’s only $2.6k. Time to level up your photo game—literally.
Is a motorized tripod worth the splurge?Vote to see live results! |
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🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🎥 Nailed It
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🤷 Missed Opportunity
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 Oversimplified & Boring
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PRODUCTION MASTERY
The world’s biggest music label, Universal Music Group (home to stars like Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish), is yanking its music off TikTok over a payment dispute.
UMG says TikTok wants to use music “without paying fair value”.
Meanwhile, TikTok says it’s “sad and disappointing” that UMG is being “greedy”.
Late last year, Universal re-upped its licensing deal with TikTok, but the new agreement never materialized.
This isn’t the first time TikTok has hit a sour note with labels: In 2022, it threatened to pull music from Warner, Sony, and UMG during negotiations.
Is Universal right to pull its music off TikTok?Vote to see live results! |
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🤑 Empire-building done right
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🎞️ CKS or Netflix?
🔥 Press Worthy
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CREATOR ECONOMY
TikTok’s dishing out perks if you go horizontal.
Creators who post long, wide-angle vids – not ads or political stuff – could score a short-term view boost within 72 hours.
The news signals a shift for the app, which started pushing horizontals about a year ago and tested longer content up to 30 mins.
As YouTube looks like more of a career-maker, TikTok’s making creator coin more attainable, launching paid series subscriptions ranging from $1 to $190.
Will TikTok’s horizontal pivot stick?Vote to see live results! |
Yesterday’s poll:
Company Rebrands:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📈 Necessary moves
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👩🎨 Just creatives having fun
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🚫 Don't fix what's not broken
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🔥 Press Worthy
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The good? Bright screen, slick telephoto lens.
The bad? Camera button freeze-frame and file transfer nightmares.YouTube lets creators add end screens promoting other videos, playlists, subscriptions, and more. End screens are crazy underrated, they're like a digital cross-sell at the end of your watch.
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