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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M — Pandora investors are losing faith in its ability to compete — Long before there was a Spotify or an Apple Music, there was Pandora. One of the earliest streaming music services, it was founded in 2000 …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
More articles are shared via text than Twitter, email, or Facebook in BuzzFeed's News app — You're probably underestimating how much your articles are being shared via text message — Last fall, in our Predictions for 2015 package, Jamie Mottram of Gannett predicted we'd see an increase in SMS sharing.
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Adam Popescu / The Verge:
Medium's next phase will be facilitating connections between writers and brands, CEO Ev Williams says — Ev Williams on Medium's future, his new venture fund, and listening to his gut — Ev Williams has said that Medium is a platform, not a publisher. Despite its title and apparent initial focus …
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@glecharles, Financial Times and The Next Web
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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The Twitter Blog, Digiday, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Marketing Land, @sdkstl, Variety, @adambain and Engadget
Columbia Journalism Review:
BuzzFeed's plans for native political ads and conflicting consumer perceptions may lead to confusion, potentially misleading readers — Do BuzzFeed's native political ads cross a line? — A major player in the explosion of online native ads, BuzzFeed is perhaps the most prominent outlet yet …
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@cjr, the Econsultancy blog, @lhorwich, @joelcifer and @cjr
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN Videos Go Dark on YouTube — Nearly all of ESPN's video content on YouTube has become unavailable, because of unresolved rights issues related to the upcoming launch of the YouTube Red subscription service.
Discussion:
TechCrunch and Ad Age
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Charter Quietly Offers Skinny Bundle Aimed at Cord Cutters — Charter has very quietly launched a skinny bundle of basic TV channels in an attempt to keep users from cutting the cord. Charter's new “Spectrum TV Stream” service costs $13 a month, and includes a free Roku 3 player …
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Multichannel News, Light Reading and FierceCable
BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed News Reporter Assaulted At Rally Of Jewish Extremists In Paris — “I know who you are, I'll tell them that you're here.” — BuzzFeed Rédactrice en chef, France — Protestors assaulted a BuzzFeed News reporter in Paris Thursday at a rally organized by the Jewish Defense League …
Scott Dance / Baltimore Sun:
AOL completes $248M acquisition of mobile advertising technology company Millennial Media — AOL closes deal to absorb Millennial Media … Millennial Media disappeared from the New York Stock Exchange on Friday after a majority of its stockholders tendered their shares to AOL …
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bizjournals, Maryland Daily Record, Technical.ly Baltimore and AOL Advertising
First Look Media:
First Look Media's litigation fund donates $75K to Mother Jones to help offset $650K in unreimbursed legal fees from VanderSloot lawsuit — First Look Media Grants $74,999 to Mother Jones in the Fight for a Free Press — Today, First Look Media's Press Freedom Litigation Fund announces …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, @jeremymbarr and @ggreenwald
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
A solo Bill Simmons nets 4 million podcast downloads in less than a month — Bill Simmons' podcast may no longer have the promotional muscle of ESPN behind it, but that doesn't mean Simmons is struggling now that he's on his own. — Simmons debuted his new podcast, “The Bill Simmons Show” on October 1 and has since been on a tear.
Discussion:
@thefix and @bmccandless
Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Investor group led by Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh secures control of studio in bankruptcy hearing — Kavanaugh-Led Group Clinches Control of Relativity — Hollywood studio now separate entity from TV business, which was sold to senior lenders — Investors led by Relativity Media LLC's founder …
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