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New York Times:
NYT brings back “the needle” but only for Georgia, N. Carolina, and Florida, and says it won't offer a single needle for the overall election due to mail voting — We'll have live estimates for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. — For many Times readers …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates — Networks have gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading, causing a ‘red mirage’ or ‘blue mirage’
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CNBC:
YouTube says it will end full-day masthead ad reservations in 2021, to give “advertisers more budget flexibility”, says change is not connected to the election — - YouTube will discontinue full-day reservations for its masthead ads beginning in 2021.
Emily Palmer / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT Audience editors Anna Dubenko and Jake Grovum on their social media plan for the election, balancing speed and accuracy over multiple days — Two digital experts for The Times discuss what they anticipate for a busy night and beyond. — Times Insider explains …
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@emilybell, @jgrovum and @annadubenko
Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
NYT says the NYT Cooking newsletter, its second most popular newsletter, has 4M subs; monthly unique visitors to Cooking are up 66% YoY during the pandemic — As the world shut down this spring, The New York Times dropped the paywall to its What To Cook collection.
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@kantrowitz, @sarthakgh, @perlberg and @kerrymflynn
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
At its one year anniversary, the Apple TV+ service is getting better each month, but it is still not where Apple needs it to be — Apple needs to deliver on its Apple TV Plus ambitions — Outside of excited Apple executives, no one thought much of Apple TV Plus.
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@loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia and @fiene
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
With fears that Trump may prematurely claim victory, journalists must do something that is not in their nature: be patient and not join a rush to judgment — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece.
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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Gannett Q3: $31.3M net loss on $814.5M revenue, down 19.5% YoY; 1.03M paid online subs, up 31.1% YoY; print ad rev down 30.9% YoY; digital ad rev down 13.5% YoY — Nearly a year after completing a major media merger, USA TODAY owner Gannett is betting on paid digital subscriptions …
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@kerrymflynn
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Profile of video hosting site Rumble, which has become a home to right-wing figures like Dan Bongino and Devin Nunes, and says it had 60M unique visitors in Oct — As the CEOs of Twitter, Google, and Facebook testified before the US Senate just weeks before the election …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
An in-depth look at the fall of CNN's Great Big Story short-form video subsidiary, founded in 2015, which failed to meet sales goals and turn a profit — On the morning of Sept. 22, employees at Great Big Story received some good news. The digital video publisher's biggest advertiser …
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Fast Company
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TikTok signs deal with Sony to let its users keep using songs from Sony's labels; source: TikTok is paying Sony significantly more now than in its previous deal — TikTok has secured the rights to recordings from thousands of artists, including Beyonce and Travis Scott …
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Ad Age, TikTok, Digital TV Europe, Variety, The Verge, @tiktok_comms, @adetolaov, @lucas_shaw, TechCrunch, Adweek, The FADER and Tubefilter
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