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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators — Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds. — There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
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Wall Street Journal:
Document lists deals with media firms and celebrities for Facebook Live, totaling $50M+ on nearly 140 contracts; BuzzFeed is highest paid at $3.05M for one year — Nearly 140 contracts with video creators total more than $50 million — Facebook Inc. is paying an array of media companies …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV — Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works.
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Fast Company, Nieman Lab, VentureBeat, Digiday, Adweek, Tumblr Staff, @msuster, Variety, Engadget, Mashable, Digital TV Europe, 9to5Mac and PCMag UK
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico's Playbook could be delivered more than once a day, with new authors Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer considering introducing 90-second audio briefings — When Mike Allen launched Playbook in 2007, he promised to deliver his agenda-setting newsletter to a D.C. crowd obsessed with Treos (remember those?) and Blackberries.
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@poynter, @whatthebit and USA Today
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Eldridge Industries, owner of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, hires bankers to review media holdings — Eldridge Industries, the U.S. owner of TV production company Dick Clark Productions and magazines Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, told Reuters on Friday that it had hired investment banks …
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Media Wire Daily, FishbowlNY, @rafat and @kimberlynfoster
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify expands its ad sales operation as it seeks to maximize ad revenue; ad sales have doubled YoY for last two years — Music streaming CEO courts marketers at Cannes as sales operations expand — Jeff Levick, chief revenue officer at Spotify AB, remembers how the advertising side …
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@digitalshields, Variety and The Verge
Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Report: ad blocking to grow 34% among US internet users this year to nearly 70M, will grow to 86.6M in 2017 — Publishers would love internet users to decide that, actually, they don't need to install an ad-blocker on their browser of choice. But a new report from research firm eMarketer suggested …
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eMarketer, Forbes, VentureBeat, Digiday and @arianawolf
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Washington Post experiments with limiting access from social by asking for email addresses from non-paying, logged out online readers — Even as it boasts of record traffic, The Washington Post is apparently looking at ways to make it a little more difficult for people to read its journalism for free.
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Europe's Altice completes $17.7B deal to buy Cablevision, making it fourth-largest cable provider in the US with 4.6M customers — Altice (ATCA.AS) could target more U.S. growth through acquisitions, a top executive said, after the European telecoms group completed a $17.7 billion deal …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
BitTorrent considering launching “lean” TV news channel, BitTorrent News, in time for fall election, based on job listing for news director in San Francisco — BitTorrent is considering the launch of a TV news network for its live streaming service in time for the election this fall, Variety has learned.
Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Tronc's latest branding video discusses content funnels and AI, resembles an Adult Swim parody, and draws criticism online for its use of buzzwords — Content funnels. Artificial intelligence. Optimize. — Last month, newspaper chain Tribune Publishing rebranded itself as Tronc …
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
New York Times Chief Executive Mark Thompson says paper will launch ad-free option for subscribers in response to the rise of ad-blockers — CEO Mark Thompson says readers can pay more to ditch ads online amid rise in ad-blocking adoption — New York Times Co. Chief Executive Mark Thompson confirmed plans …
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