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9:45 PM ET, September 2, 2019

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
UBS survey of 1K US consumers: 43% plan on subscribing to Disney+, of which 57% say they'll cancel another sub; 67% of respondents would add it to existing subs  —  The number of American customers intending to subscribe to Disney+, the streaming service launching November 12 …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Vice says it grew its video ad revenue by 120% globally after launching Video Everywhere, to sell video ads across multiple platforms, in September  —  Over the last year, Vice Media began selling video ads against its content across multiple platforms by pitching itself to agencies as a place …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Podcasts are being review-bombed in coordinated campaigns aimed at putting thousands of one-star reviews on their Apple Podcasts pages; hosts have no recourse  —  Justin Drown's true crime podcast, Obscura, always seemed to garner positive reviews.  For the first year he hosted the show …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Filings show FT had pre-tax profits of £8.15M in 2018, up 68% from £4.65M in 2017, revenue of £323.6M, while digital subscriptions grew 11% YoY to 796K  —  Pre-tax profits at the Financial Times grew by three-quarters in 2018 as digital subscription revenues continued to rise.
Discussion: @sarafischer
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Rotten Tomatoes says 55% of the 600 critics it added in the past 12 months are women, after changing critics criteria to focus on individual qualifications  —  Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes announced on Wednesday that it will renew its grant program to help critics from underrepresented groups …
Jack Mirkinson / Splinter:
Bret Stephens and his NYT editors get blasted over his latest column, which references bedbugs and Nazis; critics view the column as a clear jab at David Karpf  —  New York Times columnist Bret Stephens' meltdown over being jokingly referred to as a “bedbug” reached unbelievable new heights on Friday night …
Rainesford Stauffer / Teen Vogue:
How teens are closing the news gap for young people through outlets like the text and email newsletter theCramm and the Instagram account dailydoseofwokeness  —  Teens care about the news.  They just don't like traditional media.  —  In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election …
Jenni Marsh / CNN:
Profile of Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai, whose Apple Daily newspaper, low-cost, populist, and sensational, has never shied away from an anti-Beijing stance  —  Hong Kong (CNN)Jimmy Lai has been a public target for decades.  —  It all started after the Hong Kong business tycoon — a refugee from China …
Discussion: @cnn, @jennicnn, @cnn and @jerometaylor
 
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