Filed by SeaChange International, Inc.

Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended

and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

Subject Company: Triller Hold Co LLC

(Commission File No. 001-38828)

Bloomberg: Triller Wants to Take On TikTok to Go Public in $5 Billion Merger

 

Caroline Hyde:    Just tell us, I mean, I feel like I spent the whole of 2021 talking about special purpose acquisition companies, SPACS. Why did you go for a reverse merger? What was different here?
Mahi De Silva:    I think our combination with SeaChange is strategic, right, it’s not just backing into a shell company, it’s just an investment vehicle. There’s real synergy is between the business that they are in, which is around streaming and providing OTT capabilities to operators and our platform, which has really been focused on empowering creators to be the best they can be, giving them AI-powered superpowers to drive better distribution, better monetization of their content.
[Graphic]    TRILLER GOES PUBLIC: Reverse Merger
   Public on Nasdaq under the ticker ILLR
   Name changes to TrillerVerz
   Values company at about $5 Billion
Hyde:    Talk to us about the plan when you, of course raise, have such a valuation when you are looking to expand. I’m interested in how your business model evolved, because you’ve been making some interesting acquisitions. Of course, you’ve recently acquired Verzuz, which is the music platform, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland behind that one, but you’ve also been getting into AI, Amplify.ai. You’ve been going into streaming yourself, the sports streaming with Fite. How does this all work together as a business model?
De Silva:    Yeah, that’s a great question, so our business model, and keep in mind we are barely a three-year-old company, came together initially with a short-form video app and we’ve grown significantly from there. It’s a realization that we had about a year and a half ago that the creator economy is really broken, right, platforms like Facebook and TikTok rely on creators to create content and create a vibrant environment for consumers, but those platforms, which make all their money through advertising, don’t really share much of it with the creators.
   So, we saw an opportunity and we heard this from creators that they need better tools. They need tools that cannot only help them create and distribute content, but to measure the audiences that interact with them. How do they create monetization experiences for them to potentially sell some of that content at a premium basis? How do they participate in this now emerging NFT economy? How do they create their own subscription services? So, a lot of the things that Triller has done, you know particularly in the last year or so, has been creating these flagpole events like with Triller Fight Club with Verzuz around music...TrillerFest. But, all of those are designed to really inspire creators and to be able to bring them on to our platform and help them create their own audiences. So, you know just


Hyde:    Yeah.
De Silva:    ...in terms of scale and scope of our business we did 11 big events this year, but on the Fite TV platform we did 1,100 events for other people.
Hyde:    Ok.
De Silva:    Right, so the platform focus is really coming in to play today.
Hyde:    Interesting. So, you can give the size and scale of like the events, give us the size and scale of users right now. I know an awful lot of people have downloaded, 250 million at least, to have downloaded the app, but how many people on a daily basis are actually using it, viewing it?
De Silva:    Yeah, so keep in mind that our platform is a mixture of our own apps, things like the Triller app and the Fite TV app, but it’s so much more in the interactions that we create on other platforms on behalf of creators. So, a creator might create a piece of content using our platform and send it out to Instagram, to TikTok, to Twitter, to Facebook...but our job is to instrument that click-out experience because all you get is this bite-size bit of content on that platform, but what we enable is driving those users out of that short-form experience into something more long-form, more monetizable.
   So, we talked about today in our announcement that we enable north of 750 million interactions with consumers around the world, not just on our platform but all these other platforms that we have connected to and instrument content from.
Hyde:    Ok fascinating, but going back to the Triller app itself, how many people are using that, for example given it is a sort of rival to TikTok.
De Silva:    Yeah I mean, we certainly started our journey being compared more closely to TikTok, but we’ve grown so much further from there. And the TikTok app, which is all about getting you there and keeping you engaged, showing you ads and monetizing it and putting that money in the pockets of TikTok, our story is very different right. We use our app as a gateway mostly on the content operating...
Hyde:    But, how many? How many people are on that app?
De Silva:    So, we haven’t disclosed that
Hyde:    Ok.

 

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De Silva:    in terms of public numbers, but the numbers we are focused on is the 750 million content interactions that we are enabling on behalf of creators.
Hyde:    Well, I mean fascinating that you are going public at this time. Lastly, just what do you hope to achieve by going public? The scrutiny that you’ll get, you are going to have to start disclosing those numbers I assume into the market?
De Silva:    Sure, I mean the journey of being a public company has lots of regulatory burdens, so it’s not something we take lightly. But at the same time it gives us access to capital, it allows us to strengthen our balance sheet in a way that can continue for us to grow. We’ve grown organically, we’ve grown through acquisitions and when we think about this larger creator economy we think there is an opportunity for us to make a bigger impact and bring maybe some of these smaller companies under out tent and join our team.

 

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No Offer or Solicitation Legend

This communication is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities pursuant to the proposed business combination or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act.

Additional Information About the Merger and Where To Find It

SEAC intends to file with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4, that will include a proxy statement and also constitutes a prospectus of SEAC, in connection with the transactions and will mail a definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents to SEAC’s stockholders. SEAC’s stockholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when available, the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus, and amendments thereto, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and the other relevant documents filed with the SEC in connection with SEAC’s solicitation of proxies for its stockholders’ special meeting to be held to approve the transactions because the proxy statement/prospectus will contain important information about SEAC, Triller and the transactions. The definitive proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to stockholders of SEAC as of a record date to be established for voting on the transactions. Investors may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus (if and when it becomes available) and other relevant documents filed by SEAC with the SEC at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Stockholders of SEAC will also be able to obtain copies of the proxy statement/prospectus, without charge, once available, at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to: SeaChange International, Inc., 177 Huntington Avenue, Suite 1703 #73480, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-3135, Attention: Elaine Martel, Corporate Secretary.    

Participants in the Solicitation Legend

SEAC, Triller, and certain of their respective directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of SEAC and the unitholders of Triller in connection with the proposed transaction. Information about the directors and executive officers of SEAC is set forth in its definitive proxy statement for its 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on May 28, 2021. Additional information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation, including Triller’s directors and officers, and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in the proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed with the SEC regarding the merger when available. Each of these documents is, or will be, available at the SEC’s website or by directing a request to SEAC as described above under “Additional Information About the Merger and Where to Find It.”

 

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