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Marriott launches the Marriott Media Network in partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers target consumers on the TVs in their rooms — Marriott will use anonymized data on its guests to help brands target their ads. Walmart, Kroger, DoorDash and others have taken similar tacks, which come amid new privacy efforts
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Paramount appoints Marco Nobili as international general manager of Paramount+ and plans to expand Paramount+ and SkyShowtime to 60 markets by the end of 2022 — Paramount Global promoted Marco Nobili to EVP, international general manager of Paramount+, as the media company has set …
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Next TV, Media Play News, C21Media, Deadline and WORLD SCREEN
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A look at C-SPAN's social media and monetization efforts as its cable fee revenue, 98% of its budget, has fallen from a $70M peak to an estimated <$50M in 2022 — Jeremy Art recently discovered a potentially click-generating social-media innovation: the adjective. — Art, 39, runs social media for C-SPAN.
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Spotify confirms it is running a test that lets select artists use NFTs on their profiles — Artists can already promote merch and tickets on their Spotify profiles. Now the streaming service is testing a feature that will let them also promote their NFTs.
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As the TV industry prepares to pitch upfronts to advertisers in-person for the first time in three years, a look at how the entertainment industry has changed — In the three years since the television industry's biggest companies pitched their shows to advertisers in person at the so-called upfronts …
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Apple enables support for annual podcast subscriptions and will debut a distribution system in the fall to let podcast creators upload from 3rd-party providers — As the battle for podcaster talent and distribution heats up among providers, Apple this morning announced the launch of several …
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Sources: Netflix is exploring live streaming for its unscripted shows and stand-up specials, alongside live voting for competition series and talent contests — EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going live for the first time. — Deadline understands that the streamer is exploring the launch of live streaming.
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The Knight Institute has created a “reading room” to make the DOJ's OLC memos, which contain legal opinions shaping government policies, publicly accessible — In 2012, Charlie Savage, a New York Times reporter covering President Obama's controversial use of “recess appointments” …
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Senator Hawley's copyright bill targeting Disney is riddled with problems, and some media organizations reported on it as if his talking points were facts — Josh Hawley's proposed copyright legislation is riddled with problems, but you wouldn't know that from most media reports about the bill.
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Ahead of midterms, pollsters consider major changes following presidential election misses, exploring texts and emails to supplement traditional phone calling — CHICAGO — The polling industry is on the precipice of its biggest change in decades, as pollsters try to battle back from consecutive presidential election failures.
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The Buffalo shooting suspect allegedly endorsed “great replacement theory”, a once-fringe racist idea promoted by Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and others — The suspect in Saturday's killing of 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket allegedly wrote a document endorsing …
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Columbia University appoints Jelani Cobb as the next journalism school dean, as of August 1; Cobb, a professor at the school, is also a New Yorker staff writer — Dear fellow members of the Columbia community: — It is with great pleasure that I write to announce my appointment of Jelani Cobb …
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