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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
DMG Media says Mail Online's iOS revenue could fall by 75% due to Apple's privacy changes but some publishers see upside in ending Google and Facebook dominance — Mail Online has threatened to delete its iPhone app because of a new privacy policy from Apple that threatens to eat into its advertising revenues.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AT&T is again exploring a DirecTV sale and is in talks with PE firms for a deal that could value it below $20B; AT&T bought DirecTV for $49B in 2015 — Telephone giant in discussions with private-equity bidders for satellite-TV business wounded by shift to streaming services
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Nielsen: about 21.6M viewers watched Trump's speech for the Republican National Convention across nine networks, down from 23.6M who watched Biden's speech — New York (CNN Business)President Trump's Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated …
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TVNewser, The Wrap, Axios, MediaPost, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, @brianstelter, Mediaite, Slate, NBC News, @ajkatztv, @benmullin, @alexcsinger16, @twitterdata, @twitterdata, @scottjenningsky, @twitterdata, @grynbaum, @twitterdata and The Daily Beast
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku, approaching ~40% of broadband household penetration in the US, now often holds an upper hand in negotiations with streamers like HBO Max and Peacock — In virtual deal talks over the past several months, Roku execs have delivered a basic message — in not so many words …
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@ericjhonsa, @lanceulanoff, @richlightshed, @scottporch and Gizmodo
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
TikTok confirms publishers can apply for Creator Fund payments; sources: pubs need to have at least 10K followers and 10K views over the last 30 days — TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer may be jumping ship three months after joining the company, but some publishers are preparing to hop aboard …
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@kerrymflynn, MediaNama, @xpangler, @neilcybart, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia and @loudmouthjulia, more at Techmeme »
Dave McNary / Variety:
California sets rules for slowly opening indoor movie theaters with limited capacity based on coronavirus prevalence and positive test rates in counties — Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced strict guidelines for indoor movie theaters in California to reopen in the coming months.
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@gavinnewsom, Deadline, /Film, The Wrap, Deadline, Orange County Register and @thewrap
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Sources: Comcast is pitching X1 software powering its set-top boxes and Flex streaming hardware as a potential operating system to smart TV manufacturers — Comcast wants to turn the software running on its set-top boxes into an operating system for smart TVs, Protocol has learned …
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@markgray, TheStreet, FierceVideo and @robpegoraro, more at Techmeme »
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCUniversal's Peacock is trying out a new kind of commercial that asks viewers to speak a phrase to gain gift cards or other promotions from advertisers — Madison Avenue has for decades trotted out a dizzying array of marketing avatars to talk to consumers.
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@highway_62, MediaPost, @bristei and @bristei
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Facebook is testing linking users' accounts to their news subscriptions, with AJC, The Athletic, and the Winnipeg Free Press participating in the test — Facebook is testing out a new feature that could help news publishers create a better experience for paying subscribers on the social network.
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Adweek and @scottnover, more at Techmeme »
Chico Felitti / BuzzFeed News:
Over 20 former staffers and contractors of Globo Condé Nast in Brazil say Daniela Falcão, managing director of Edições Globo Condé Nast, created a toxic culture — “Humiliation was a constant,” one employee said. “Someone was always coming out of the bathroom with their face puffy from crying.”
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@buzzfeednews, @stephaniemlee, @jbflint, @buzzfeednews and @carriecourogen
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Profile of BBC's new director general Tim Davie, who has no hands-on experience with journalism or program-making and joined BBC 15 years ago to run marketing — The last time Tim Davie was director general of the BBC, he found himself dealing with a crisis over the corporation's news output …
Bernard Keane / Crikey:
The Australian government's proposal for Google and Facebook, at the behest of News Corp, is a rejection of law and a classic example of “sovereign risk” — Everyone hates Google and Facebook, right? But the government's proposal to force them to hand a colossal sum of money …
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@cejse, @orpheuseurydice, @mrdenmore, @quentindempster and @bernardkeane
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