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ViacomCBS Q2: net income of $1.04B on $6.6B revenue; 6.5M new streaming subscribers for 42M total; new deal with Sky will bring Paramount+ to Europe in 2022 — ViacomCBS said second quarter profit rose as advertisers spent more robustly on its media assets and the company saw new revenue from a host of streaming initiatives.
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South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker sign a six-year, $900M+ deal with ViacomCBS for 14 spinoff movies for Paramount+ and episodes for Comedy Central — The expanding ‘South Park’ universe will include new movies for Paramount+ — The creators of “South Park” …
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Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water” — The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly?
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Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October
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Sources: CNN execs floated the idea of a temporary leave for Chris Cuomo in May if he wanted to formally advise his brother on reacting to sex harassment claims — Chris Cuomo, the top-rated host, left some colleagues confused after he did not acknowledge the calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation during his Tuesday show.
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Sources: Jeff Zucker is staying at WarnerMedia at least until the merger with Discovery closes — - Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia's news and sports chairman, plans to stay in his role at least until his company's merger with Discovery goes through, sources say.

NY AG report: Chris Cuomo of CNN sent an email that appeared to be a draft PR release for his brother, Andrew, when harassment claims against the governor arose
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Penn National Gaming, which owns Barstool Sports, is buying betting and media company theScore for approximately $2B in cash and stock — Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENN) (and Score Media and Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCR) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement …
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Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV arrives on iOS and Android, more than two years after launching — More than two and a half years after IMDb launched its free, ad-supported streaming service, IMDb TV is now available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
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Thomson Reuters beats expectations with Q2 operating profit of $316M, down 14% YoY, on revenue of $1.53B, up 9% YoY; Reuters News' sales rose 6% YoY to $168M — Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) reported better-than-expected results in the second quarter, with higher sales across its main divisions, and raised its annual revenue forecast.


Examples from California's AG for Consumer Privacy Act enforcement seem to indicate companies can't rely solely on ad trade groups' blanket opt-out tools — For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state's privacy law.
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Podcast network Acast says 14M Americans listen to its shows per month, it's home to 28K shows total, of which 25% are US-based, and it's paid $110M to creators — How Acast became the global independent power source of podcasting — Acast opened up for business in the US just over four years ago.


Roku beats with Q2 total net revenue of $645M, up 81% YoY, reaching 55.1M active accounts, up 1.5M QoQ, and 17.4B streaming hours, down 1B QoQ; stock drops 8%+ — Roku easily beat Wall Street forecasts for second-quarter 2021 earnings — posting record 81% revenue growth …
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