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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M, with MAUs up 31% YoY to 286M, premium users up 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs up 32% to 163M — The coronavirus may be decimating some corners of the economy, but the impact on the digital music …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify-owned Anchor introduces a feature that will allow creators to turn their video chats and virtual hangouts into podcast-ready audio — Spotify is tapping into the increased usage of video conferencing during the coronavirus quarantine to grow its own podcast business.
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MediaPost, Nieman Lab, @rfaughnder, @ivan_brussels, @rverrier, Mobile Marketer, @leimer, Anchor, Engadget, The Verge, Marketing Land and Hot Pod News, more at Techmeme »
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian says it had 821,000 readers making monthly contributions at the end of March, up 23% YoY; digital app subscriptions grew by 39% YoY to 265,000 — The Guardian's reader revenues have grown at record rates since the coronavirus crisis began and one of the UK's biggest regional dailies follows …
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HoldtheFrontPage, The Guardian and Reuters Institute …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: CNN saw an increase of 179% in viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 in April, while Fox News grew 83% and MSNBC grew 54% — Viewership for all three of the nation's main cable-news outlets soared in April as viewers tuned in at all hours for information on the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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New York Times, The Media Nut, The Wrap, @poynter, Poynter, TVNewser, Mediaite and Raw Story
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Amazon renews its NFL deal for 3 more seasons, with Amazon and Twitch getting exclusive global rights to one late-season Saturday game each season — Amazon will stream “Thursday Night Football” for three more seasons and get an additional game all to itself in a new deal with the NFL.
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Dave McNary / Variety:
Cineworld joins AMC Theatres in refusing to show Universal Pictures films after NBCUniversal CEO's promise to open titles simultaneously on PVOD and in theaters — Cineworld, owner of the Regal Entertainment exhibition chain, is joining AMC Theatres in refusing to play any Universal Pictures films …
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Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge and Vanity Fair
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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Universal says Trolls World Tour on-demand release has netted ~5M downloads; source: it's made $77M in revenue from the 80% it retains from digital rental fees
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Motion picture academy eases qualifications for 2021 Oscars; eligible films won't have to screen for at least a week in a Los Angeles-area theater — The Academy's board of governors convened via a secure Zoom session on Tuesday morning. — The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is still slated …
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Profile of Kayleigh McEnany, whose role as Trump's White House press secretary has become indistinguishable from her role as Trump campaign's spokeswoman — Kayleigh McEnany saw Donald J. Trump as her ticket to stardom. She has been fighting for him for much of her adult life, now as the president's fourth press secretary.
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@mehdirhasan, @dangillmor, @nytpolitics, @ericboehlert, @billkristol, PRESS RUN, @mattgertz, New Republic, @tomscocca, @tomscocca, @brianstelter, @tomscocca and CNN
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Axios, which had qualified for a $4.8M PPP loan, will return the money after nearing a deal for other capital and after the program prompted divisive debate — Axios, which qualified for a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan to avoid layoffs, will return the money, after nearing a deal for an alternative source of capital.
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Columbia Journalism Review, The Wrap, @derricktperkins, @thegrnadvocate, @bendreyfuss, @harrysiegel, @emilydreyfuss, @bendreyfuss, @film_girl, @bendreyfuss, @bmorrissey, @jbarro, @bendreyfuss, @media_evan, @carlquintanilla, @danprimack, @danprimack, @ryanmaue, @danprimack, @lanceulanoff, @bendreyfuss, @dylanbyers, New York Post, bookforum.com and The Hill
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Matthew Moore / The Times:
Facebook poaches Tony Close, director of content standards at Ofcom, as director of content regulation; Ofcom is preparing to regulate social media companies — A senior official at the watchdog preparing to regulate social media companies has been poached by Facebook to help it respond to the curbs.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue of $4.04B, up 33% YoY, but says ad sales fell significantly in March — YouTube generated $4.04 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter of 2020, up 33% from the year prior. Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube …
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MediaPost, Digiday, MarketWatch, @larakiara and @xpangler, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Former NYT Shanghai bureau chief David Barboza launches The Wire China, a new journalism-and-data business that puts out a digital weekly magazine — “I think how wasteful is it that most journalists throw away or never use or don't pass on any of their notes or records.
NY State Attorney General:
New York AG calls on seven major cable and satellite TV providers to reduce or eliminate live sports programming fees during the pandemic — AG Sends Letters to Seven Major Cable and Satellite Providers — in New York to Reduce High Fees Until Live Sports Return
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The Streamable, @richlightshed, @gerryfsmith and @richlightshed
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Apple updates the News category in Podcasts for the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, with recommended shows including info about COVID-19 and the US election — Apple Podcasts has launched an updated News category in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia, a spokesperson tells Axios.
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