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Pew Research Center:
Pew Research study of US teen internet usage finds 85% say they use YouTube, 72% use Instagram, 69% use Snapchat, while only 51% say they use Facebook — YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Cheddar buys MTV Networks on Campus, a news and entertainment network piped into US college campuses, from Viacom and will rename it CheddarU — Cheddar Inc. wants to be the big cheese on campus. The financial-news streaming service aimed at young people has purchased MTV Networks on Campus …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Internet pay-TV service Philo adds Cheddar Big News, Tastemade, and PeopleTV channels to its base package
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Multichannel News and FierceCable
Wall Street Journal:
Early data after GDPR shows Google and Facebook are drawing ad money by gathering users' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than competing services — Digital ad giants are gathering individuals' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than many competing online-ad services, early data show
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@dangillmor, MediaPost, @profcarroll, Fortune, @kimmaicutler and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
New York Media, Pop Sugar, and Rolling Stone join Concert, a digital ad marketplace founded by Vox Media and NBCU — Vox Media claims Concert will reach nearly 90% of internet users — Concert, the digital ad marketplace founded by Vox Media and NBCUniversal, is further expanding …
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, @concert and AdExchanger
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
DoubleClick announces advertisers can now buy ad inventory programmatically from Google Play Music, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn, and soon Pandora — Advertisers can buy digital audio ad inventory programmatically on Spotify, TuneIn, SoundCloud and Google Play Music.
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RAIN News, DoubleClick Advertiser Blog, Ad Age, MediaPost and The Drum
Rebecca Stewart / The Drum:
The Evening Standard denies allegations of payment in exchange for favorable coverage of brands like Uber, saying that all commercial content will be labeled — The Evening Standard (ES) has explicitly denied allegations that it has accepted millions of pounds from brands like Uber in return for …
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American Press Institute, Politico, The Guardian, Press Gazette, @jimwaterson, Guido Fawkes, @adambanksdotcom, @tom_watson, openDemocracy, @donie and @jamesrbuk
Elizabeth Jensen / NPR:
NPR will shutter five of its blogs on June 5; their content will be grouped by topic pages to simplify the user experience and increase newsroom collaboration — Very few people these days are going to the landing pages for NPR blogs such as The Two-Way (for breaking news) or Parallels …
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Nieman Lab, @raju and @gabrieljr
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Once Tronc closes on LA Times sale, sources say clean balance sheet could make Tronc a takeover target; filing says five execs could get $23.5M if Tronc is sold — For a company that's known little but chaos in its short life, the degree of uncertainty is now as high as ever.
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@scribeguy, @mattdpearce and @mattdpearce
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Apple has been rejecting its app updates globally since Russia banned Telegram in April — Encrypted messaging app Telegram is feeling the squeeze out of Russia, where regulators are not letting up in their ongoing attempts to block the app because its publishers refuse …
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Neowin, Unlikely Voter, MacRumors, New York Times, Fortune, VentureBeat, @ingridlunden, Fast Company and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Anna Nemtsova / The Daily Beast:
The staged murder of Babchenko did serious damage to journalism when it's already under attack by rulers who increasingly call investigations “fake news” — MOSCOW — The heartbreaking “assassination” of Arkady Babchenko — in fact a sting set up by the Ukrainian Security Service …
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NPR, VICE News, @zidanism, @annanemtsova, @asluhn and Committee to Protect …
Rich Woods / Neowin:
Microsoft retiring Groove Music apps for iOS and Android on December 1; if installed, apps will stop working; PC, Xbox, and Windows Phone apps will still work — At the end of last year, Microsoft killed off its Groove Music Pass service. The Groove apps themselves continues to function …
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Ars Technica, Android Police, The Verge and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
How Sinclair will keep some control of four TV stations it plans to sell after Tribune deal; ex-FCC chair Tom Wheeler says “it borders on a regulatory fraud” — Sinclair makes side deals that could place Republican-leaning programming on stations it won't own.
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