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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Marriott launches the Marriott Media Network in partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers target consumers on its hotel websites and 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 …
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New York Times:
Paradise Media sells literary magazine The Believer to its original owner McSweeney's at a “meaningful” loss, after a fan backlash over clickbait content — The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content. Scandal ensued.
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Antoinette Siu / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed, which bought Complex Networks and HuffPost in 2021, reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $91.6M and a net loss up 295% YoY to $44.6M; stock falls 10%+ — BuzzFeed, Inc. on Monday reported its first-quarter earnings as a public company, with results showing growing content revenue …
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Michael Schaffer / Politico:
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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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Two fact-checking organizations, Argentina's Chequeado and Spain's Maldita.es, launch Factchequeado to address misinformation in Spanish-speaking US communities — Last month, Factchequeado launched as a way to address misinformation in Latino and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ahead of the US midterms, some major media polls are reaching respondents via texts and the mail to supplement phone calling, after presidential election misses — 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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Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Deadline says it won't publish an interview with Cannes head Thierry Frémaux, after the festival demanded copy approval and removed answers about diversity — Long a bastion of artistic freedom, the Cannes Film Festival has a secret: it censors interviews with festival head Thierry Frémaux.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix executives met with major theater chains to test releasing movies with a longer window, likely 45 days, in thousands of theaters later in 2022 — Netflix Inc. was absent when Hollywood executives gathered in Las Vegas late last month to preview the year ahead in movies, at least officially.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Washingtonian names executive editor Sherri Dalphonse as its new editor, the first woman to edit the city magazine and its fifth editor in its 57-year history — She's the first woman to edit the city magazine and only its fifth top editor ever. — Sherri Dalphonse was named the new editor of Washingtonian on Monday.
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify confirms it is testing a feature that lets select artists promote “third-party NFT offerings” on their profiles, visible to Android users in the US — 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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Selome Hailu / Variety:
In a memo to staff, CEO David Zaslav elaborates on Warner Bros. Discovery's priorities, including combining HBO Max and Discovery+, bolstering CNN, and more — In a new memo sent out to Warner Bros. Discovery staff and obtained by Variety, Zaslav began to elaborate on those plans.
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