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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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TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, @alexweprin and @alexweprin
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
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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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
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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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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