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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube confirms any partner creator who earns cut of ad revenue but does not agree to YouTube Red revenue share deal will have videos hidden — YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal — YouTube made its top video creators an offer …
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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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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
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
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SportsBusiness Daily:
Universal Sports TV Channel Slated To Shut Down Next Month … The Universal Sports TV channel is shutting down next month after nearly a decade in operation. NBC execs told the channel's approximately 75 employees during an early morning meeting in L.A. today.
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@ourand_sbj, Cyclingnews.com, @jmarthaler, Deadline, @kellydomara, @jasongay and Awful Announcing
Dianna Dilworth / GalleyCat:
Yelp-like site WordRates launches to let freelancers rate editors and share pay information about magazines — WordRates: A Yelp-Like Site for Freelance Writers — WordRates.com, a site that aims to be “Yelp for journalists,” is now live. Writer Scott Carney founded the site …
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James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Canada's Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions 17 months after launch — Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions — Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is pulling the plug on its ambitious evening tablet editions, ending an experiment with daily digital news that launched less than a year and a half ago.
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@jbenton, @lpolgreen, @ivortossell, @tomhawthorn and @mathewi
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Behind the royalty dispute between indie label Victory Records and Spotify that led to Victory's removal from the streaming service — Spotify in Dispute Over Royalty Payments — On Monday, fans of the punk and metal bands on Victory Records, an independent label in Chicago …
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
ABC News grew monthly video views from 20M to 100M in 8 months, mostly with repackaged TV content — ABC News' secret to YouTube success: TV content — ABC News has more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube — most of which are happening on TV content that the publisher has repackaged for the online video site.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Twitter CEO suggests Politwoops might return — Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at the return of the Sunlight Foundation's well-regarded Politwoops service on Thursday at the Twitter Flight developer conference in San Francisco. In his speech, Dorsey apologized to developers …
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@antderosa, @anildash, @boblannon, @sunfoundation, @openstateeu, BuzzFeed and @mmasnick
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
James and Lachlan Murdoch in First Interview Atop Fox: Politics, Roger Ailes, Dad and Plans for the Future (Exclusive) — The brothers, who took over the 21st Century Fox empire July 1, sit down together and open up about who's in charge, sister Liz, the new age of television and whether …
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Marissa Evans / Poynter:
Interview with Mark Luckie on how and why he created Today in #BlackTwitter, a news digest on Medium — Mark Luckie on keeping up with Black Twitter and covering it … It's been a busy few months for Mark Luckie. — In May he announced that he was leaving his post as Twitter's manager …
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 …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Study shows 71% of national UK newspaper market owned by News UK, Daily Mail & General Trust, and Trinity Mirror, which threatens news plurality — UK media plurality threatened by dominant group of large firms - report — Media Reform Coalition claims News UK, Daily Mail & General Trust …
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