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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of short, curated comedy clips, on its TV app in select English-speaking countries — Fast Laughs is rolling out to ‘select English-speaking countries’ — Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of comedy clips hand-picked by Netflix, on its TV app.
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TechCrunch, The Streamable and Engadget
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Boris Johnson says UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has asked Ofcom to review whether RT's news channel license should be suspended — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the Russian-backed RT news channel. — Addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Conservative Brief, which employs three writers, has become huge on Facebook, surpassing WaPo and NYT, ostensibly by paying large Pages to share its content — Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting.
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming platform ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns — The addition aims to help marketers plan campaigns — and signal the industry that the embattled company is adapting to the current landscape.
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Variety
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery and Omnicom will test TV measurement alternatives using Comscore and VideoAmp data; AT&T, State Farm, and others are participating — AT&T and State Farm are the latest big advertisers to experiment with new ways of figuring out just who is watching TV - and the commercials that support it.
Kris Holt / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Podcast Network as a pilot, with shows available on LinkedIn, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms — LinkedIn is delving deeper into the podcast world. It's debuting a podcast network that features in-house shows from the LinkedIn News team as well as programs from industry figures.
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MediaPost, The Daily Dot, The Drum, @kantrowitz and Axios
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
As China walks a tightrope over the Ukraine crisis, Beijing-linked Horizon News accidentally posted apparent coverage rules banning posts unfavorable to Russia — China did not explicitly endorse Moscow's latest moves toward Ukraine but still recognized on Tuesday what it called Russia's …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Fox News, @nakashimae, @qjurecic, Quartz, @bonnieglaser, Insider, РИА …, Insider, The Daily Beast and Mother Jones
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Roku launches Advertising Watermark to help advertisers and publishers verify the authenticity of their video ads and defend against “device spoofing” — To reduce advertising fraud in the connected TV (CTV) and streaming businesses, Roku is starting up a new free technology …
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TV Technology, Ad Age, Media Play News, Next TV and MarTech
Ed Z / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:
Some journalists, guilted by crypto zealots into “being open-minded”, fail their readers by giving the scam-filled crypto industry the benefit of the doubt — Yesterday I had a quasi-viral tweet about how I cannot for the life of me find an explanation as to why Web3 and the blockchain are so inevitably the future.
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@dgolumbia, @walthickey, @dgolumbia, @edzitron, @edzitron, @edzitron, @chronotope and @edzitron
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Condé Nast's Vogue and GQ sign a deal with TikTok to make exclusive content for the app, including live streams, hashtag challenges, and short-form video series — Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, both for their own respective brand channels and in print …
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Tubefilter and @markdistef
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Study: since May, Facebook labeled only about half the posts promoting 184 climate change denial articles from publishers like Breitbart and Newsmax — Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a British watchdog group.
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Nieman Lab, The Independent, @reuterslegal, @foe_us and Center for Countering …, more at Techmeme »
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
WSJ and Google Ad Manager study finds advertisers that used first-party data in campaigns were 37% more likely to run another campaign — The Wall Street Journal welcomes its cookieless future, and advertisers have taken notice. The publisher, in a case study conducted in partnership …
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