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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, adds offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally — Red Dawn — A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More — YouTube wants to use exclusive series and movies from its biggest stars to differentiate its new $9.99 ad-free video and on-demand music subscription service YouTube Red.
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Disney to launch DisneyLife subscription streaming service in the UK in November, expand to France, Spain, Italy, and Germany next year — Disney to launch digital subscription streaming service in UK — Walt Disney will next month launch a first of its kind digital subscription service …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Yahoo took a $42M write-down in Q3 in its video division that backed original series including Community, “couldn't see a way to make money over time” — Why Yahoo wrote down $42 million for ‘Community’ — In April, at a star-studded “newfront” presentation at New York's Lincoln Center …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN confirms layoffs of 300 people; source says in distribution, advertising, technology, content, and others — ESPN to Lay Off About 300 Employees — Sports-media company looks to control costs in a challenging pay-TV landscape — ESPN said it would lay off nearly 300 employees at the company …
Lee Rainie / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 63% of Americans read at least one print book in last 12 months, 27% read an e-book, numbers largely same as 2014 survey — Slightly fewer Americans are reading print books, new survey finds — The number of book readers has dipped a bit from the previous year and the number …
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Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph:
Apple's News arrives in the UK with iOS 9.1 update — Apple's News app, an aggregator for your favourite news sources, is now available to download in the UK alongside iOS 9.1 — Apple's News app is now available for UK iPhone and iPad owners in the UK, acting as a personalised newsfeed agregator for digital media.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Downward stocks, retrenchment of IPO market, Trump lawsuit, and other issues mean Univision could delay its planned IPO — Univision beset by media world turbulence as it plans IPO — Univision Communications' owners were hoping that by mid-October, Wall Street would be cheering …
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Max Hole to Step Down as Chairman, CEO of Universal Music Group International — LONDON — Max Hole is to step down from his role as chairman and chief executive of Universal Music Group International, effective immediately. The company's regional heads, outside the U.S. …
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Comcast is in talks with TV networks and audience measurement firms to share data harnessed from set-top boxes and apps — Comcast Seeks to Harness Trove of TV Data — Cable giant is in talks with TV networks and measurement firms to license viewing data from set-top boxes, apps
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Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:
Shares in education publisher Pearson fell 16% after profit warning and Q3 sales fell 2% YoY — Pearson Shares Dive on Profit Warning — Education company warns of tough market conditions — LONDON—Shares in Pearson PLC dropped more than 16% on Wednesday after the education company warned …
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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
2-year-old Bustle hits 45 million monthly uniques, flirts with profitability, and launches a new website for millennial moms, Romper — Bustle, a new media company for millennial women, is launching a second website in November. — The website, which will be called Romper …
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Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Vice holds two-hour blackout to support journalist imprisoned in Turkey — Mohammed Rasool remains in jail despite worldwide concern and the release of colleagues Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury — Vice is blacking out all its online channels for two hours on Wednesday …
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