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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 Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More
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The Wrap, Forbes, YouTube Blog, Tech Times, @brianstelter, Pocket-lint, @brianstelter, Good E-Reader, Home Media Magazine, Ad Age, Polygon, Adweek, Fast Company, VentureBeat, WWD and Fortune
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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Variety, Guardian, TechCrunch, NPR, Engadget, Music Business Worldwide, Complete Music Update, AdExchanger, hypebot, @lucas_shaw, @jank0, ITProPortal, The Next Web, Android Police, Gizmodo, Fusion, TIME, Kotaku, CNBC, The Huffington Post, BBC, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Billboard, Wired.co.uk, Droid Life, Hollywood Reporter, hypebot, GeekWire, Tech Times, YouTube Blog, MacRumors, @pierce, @adrianklee and @deliciousbees
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, VeloNews.com, @jmarthaler, @kellydomara, @jasongay, Cyclingnews.com, Deadline and Awful Announcing
George Slefo / Ad Age:
IAB: Digital advertising revenue reaches record high of $27.5B during first half of 2015, with mobile accounting for 30% of all digital ad spend — IAB: Digital Advertising Hits Record High of $27.5 Billion — Mobile Leads the Pack, Accounting for 30% of All Digital Advertising Spend
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MediaPost, Ad Age, Radio & Television …, Search Engine Land, warc.com, Business Wire, The Drum, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal and Marketing Land
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.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google launches €150m fund for publishers' digital news projects — Internet giant says funding will have ‘no strings attached’, with larger grants needing approval from a council including the Telegraph's Murdoch MacLennan — Google has launched its €150m (£109m) …
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The Next Web, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Financial Times
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Business Insider plan more subscription offerings as more outlets turn to paywall strategies — Content paywalls on the agenda for digital news sites — There was a time not long ago when the news business was a roaring economic success. Newspapers sold millions of copies …
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Business Insider
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Fusion Partners with African-American News Site The Root to Develop TV Content (EXCLUSIVE) — Fusion has made a TV development deal with The Root, the number one African-American news and commentary site, Variety has learned exclusively. The Root will make its debut on the cable net in 2016.
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Multichannel News and The Huffington Post
Aaron Sharockman / Tampa Bay Times:
Scripps partners with PolitiFact in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio; political fact-checking now covers 14 states ahead of 2016 presidential election — PolitiFact and Scripps launch partnerships in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio — PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter is coming to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio.
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Broadcasting & Cable, @politifact and TVNewsCheck.com
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 …
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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@sgcarney, @ben_a_goldfarb, @wordrates, @wordrates and WordRates
Ian Allison / International Business Times:
Sky trumpets 10% earnings hike to £375m — Sky, the home entertainment and media company, reported a 10% rise in quarterly operating profit to £375m (€510m, $579m) for the three months to the end of September. Sky said it was its strongest first quarter growth in four years, with revenue up by 6% to £2.8bn.
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Reuters, Sky News, Bloomberg Business, Advanced Television, City A.M., Telegraph and Deadline
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