Sam Taylor

129 posts
Triller brings in former VEVO exec to kickstart “transformation journey” as vertical video’s poor cousin licks its lips at prospect of TikTok ban public
Triller 5 min read

Triller brings in former VEVO exec to kickstart “transformation journey” as vertical video’s poor cousin licks its lips at prospect of TikTok ban

Triller is BACK! Just in time for Halloween. And this time it’s deadly serious about being the biggest app of all time and wiping the floor with every other feeble app out there. TikTok doesn’t have its own Bare Knuckle Fighting championship, does it? Oh and it’s got a new CEO too…
Sam Taylor & Chris Cooke
Proper Group AG scandal grows as investor John Mitchell distances himself from Löhr and CMU uncovers another case of embezzlement public
Mitchell Asset Management 5 min read

Proper Group AG scandal grows as investor John Mitchell distances himself from Löhr and CMU uncovers another case of embezzlement

John Mitchell, a key investor in Proper Group AG, has issued a statement to CMU distancing himself from the bankrupt company’s former ‘general advisor’ Peter Löhr. CMU has now discovered that a former director of Mitchell’s Australian firm Mitchell Asset Management was also accused of embezzlement.…
Sam Taylor
Proper Group AG - the company formerly known as Utopia - is riddled with debt and has left its few remaining staff high and dry with salaries unpaid for months public
Utopia Music 5 min read

Proper Group AG - the company formerly known as Utopia - is riddled with debt and has left its few remaining staff high and dry with salaries unpaid for months

Put into bankruptcy by the Swiss courts, riddled with debt, the proceeds of the Sentric sale still locked in escrow, another UK company in liquidation, and its few remaining staff left in the lurch yet again as they wait months for salaries… what’s really happening at Proper Group AG…
Sam Taylor
TikTok Music to close public
Bytedance 3 min read

TikTok Music to close

TikTok Music will close down at the end of November. The standalone music service launched last year as an evolution of Resso, the earlier music platform operated by TikTok owner Bytedance. TikTok says it now wants to focus on its Add To Music App feature…
Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor
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