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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Users streamed 315M minutes of the Super Bowl from CBS and NFL, an average of 1.4M people per minute, up from from 213 minutes, 800K/min in 2015 — More People Streamed the Super Bowl Than Ever Before. Here Are the Numbers: — Late last night, CBS announced it had streamed the Super Bowl to a …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Super Bowl ads generated 476M views online to date, 62.4M on game day alone
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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Hashtags included in 45% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook or Twitter mentioned in only 5% of ads
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post builds Bandito detection tool that monitors alternate versions of stories set by editors, then automatically serves the most popular — Washington Post's ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content For Clicks — System promotes version of a story with most popular headline, images
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
Wired to start offering ad-free version of its website for $3.99 a month from Feb 16, will block visitors using ad blockers — Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers — Readers can pay $3.99 for a four-week subscription to a version of its site without advertising.
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Keith Moyer, new editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, says Adelson family assures him it will stay out of news gathering process — Big plans for Adelson's Vegas paper — Talking about plunging into the fire. — For the past six years, J. Keith Moyer, a former newspaper publisher and editor …
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Lucy Kellaway / Financial Times:
FT columnist Lucy Kellaway responds to Hewlett Packard marketing chief Henry Gomez after he made veiled threat in response to critical opinion piece — An old-school reply to an advertiser's retro threat — Meg Whitman's lieutenant was ‘disappointed’ with what I'd written. Here is my considered response
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John Harrington / PRWeek:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise releases letter sent to FT journalist to dispute ‘ad threat’ claim — Hewlett Packard Enterprise has strongly disputed claims by an FT columnist that the software firm's comms chief Henry Gomez wrote a ‘threatening’ and ‘aggressive’ letter to her with suggestions …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox reports Q2 net income of $672M on revenue of $7.38B, cable TV revenue strong, film weak, stock down about 5% after hours — 21st Century Fox Earnings: Cable Gains Can't Lift Weaker Film Results — Lower television advertising results, lackluster home entertainment results …
Bloomberg Business:
NFL in talks about selling streaming rights to “Thursday Night Football” — Yahoo, Verizon, AT&T Want NFL Thursday Streaming Rights — National Football League has targeted tech, telecom partners — Traditional broadcasters uninterested in paying extra
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Profile of the FCC's general counsel Jonathan Sallet, helping to create and defend rules shaping TV and the Internet — Net Neutrality Again Puts F.C.C. General Counsel at Center Stage — WASHINGTON — Every day for one month last fall, Jonathan Sallet, the general counsel …
Kate Palmer / Telegraph:
Guardian Media Group and Apax owned Ascential prices shares at 200p, floats at about a £800M valuation — Guardian-owned magazine business Ascential floats for £800m — Ascential, which owns titles Retail Week and the Health Service Journal, makes stock market debut today
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Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC3 boss on going online only: 'We are reinventing the BBC's offer to youth' — Controller Damian Kavanagh on taking his station online, nurturing talent, and how he's winning over critics — n 16 February BBC3 will go online only, causing, according to critics such as producers Jimmy Mulville …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
En Español: The New York Times launches a Spanish-language news site aiming south of the border — The Iowa caucuses are confusing. Every four years, Americans receive a crash course in the quirky midwestern custom that kicks off the presidential nominating cycle …
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