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Ellen Hammett / Marketing Week:
Study: half of the money brands invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers; 15% of the money is unattributable to supply chain players — A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers …
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Digiday, Nieman Lab, Financial Times, Adweek, ISBA, The Media Nut, The Drum, ISBA and Mediatel News
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
YouTube and ViacomCBS expand carriage deal, add 14 new networks, including BET, MTV, and Comedy Central, to YouTube TV this summer — YouTube and ViacomCBS have revealed an expanded, multi-year distribution deal that will add 14 new networks to the tech giant's YouTube TV service this summer.
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Business Wire:
ViacomCBS Q1: $508M net earnings on $6.6B revenue; $471M in streaming and digital video revenue, up 51% YoY; 13.5M streaming subscribers, 24M+ MAUs on Pluto TV — - Sequential Improvement in Operating Income and Adjusted OIBDA, Diluted EPS and Adjusted Diluted EPS, as well as Operating Cash Flow and Free Cash Flow
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
ViacomCBS CEO says CBS All Access will be rebranded this summer, expand internationally in the next year, and add content from Paramount, BET, and others
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, The Streamable, @lukewatsonnyc, @viacomcbs, CordCutters, Tech Investor News, AdExchanger and Hollywood Reporter
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more — - Amazon unit will bankroll slate of unscripted series this year — Use of Twitch has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic
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The Streamable, The Verge, @lucas_shaw and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
IJ4EU:
IJ4EU opens applications for cross-border investigative journalism projects in EU and EU candidate countries, providing €1M in grants of between €5K and €50K — One million euros for projects in Europe in 2020 — Read this text in: бълга р …
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Josh Mabry / Facebook Journalism Project …:
Facebook awards $16M in grants to 200+ local news outlets: $10.3M from the COVID-19 relief fund and $5.4M for participants in its local news accelerator program — Today, Facebook is announcing that more than 200 news organizations will receive nearly $16 million in grants through …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish lost 413K subscribers in Q1, including 281K Sling TV subscribers; the company now has 2.31M Sling TV subscribers and 11.32M total subscribers, down 6% YoY — Dish Network reported its worst-ever quarterly loss of subscribers, shedding 413,000 total pay-TV customers in the first three months of 2020.
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Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable and Reuters
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse launches Alamo on Demand, offering movies curated by Alamo for rent or purchase online — From ‘Golden Girls’ to ‘Property Brothers,’ What Hollywood Stars Are Binging During Coronavirus Lockdown — Alamo Drafthouse, the cinema chain that largely popularized …
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Deadline, Fast Company, Austin Chronicle, CNBC, @davezatz and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Alan Rusbridger / OneZero:
Some will inevitably see Facebook's Oversight Board as a fig leaf, but in my view, there's no excuse for not trying — Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on why the social media giant ‘needs independent, external oversight’ — Alan Rusbridger was the editor in chief of The Guardian between 1995-2015.
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American Press Institute, @arusbridger, The Guardian, @evelyndouek, @jodieginsberg, New York Times, The Week and Protocol
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New York Times:
Facebook announces the first 20 members of its Oversight Board, out of a total of 40, including ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger
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Oversight Board, @hadas_gold, USA Today, MediaPost, @nytopinion, Columbia Journalism Review, @josh_hammer, Reuters, The Guardian, Meduza.io, @nicsuzor, @ericnewcomer, @catoinstitute, The Independent, @profgalloway, @evelyndouek, The Verge, @matthewstoller, @umairh, @nighatdad, @niemanlab, @oversightboard, @slpng_giants, @dexbarton, @dlberes, @adamboultonsky, @mvzelenks, @jeffjarvis, @rasmus_kleis, @filip_struharik, @jameeljaffer, @sivavaid, @parkermolloy, @kevinroose, @hellethorning_s, @jamalgreene, @evelyndouek, @columbialaw, @broderick, @daphnehk, @caseynewton, NPR, The Week, Reason, About Facebook, Engadget, Politico, CNET and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Register in UK has settled a libel case with a CEO who defamed a reporter and editor in tweets, posts, and a Google ad; CEO has apologized, will pay damages — Technology website The Register has won a libel payout from a computer sales chief executive who accused it of publishing “fake news”.
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@datadictum, @gazthejourno, @gazthejourno, @markhannamedia, @gazthejourno and @domponsford
Debbie Weinstein / The Keyword:
YouTube to start running ad surveys on the YouTube app for TVs and introduce skippable ads to content cast onto a TV as users increasingly watch YouTube on TV — Viewer attention is shifting dramatically as we spend more time at home-and we've heard directly from many advertisers …
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MediaPost, Adweek, TechCrunch and Broadcasting & Cable
Radio & Television Business Report:
Sinclair Broadcasting agrees to pay a $48M penalty and abide by what the FCC calls a “strict compliance plan” in order to close three FCC investigations — The FCC late Wednesday afternoon announced the largest civil penalty involving a broadcaster in the agency's 86-year history.
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