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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Meta begins telling its ~50 US news partners that the company will not renew its three-year deals from 2019 to pay for content in Facebook's News Tab — Meta on Tuesday began telling its news partners in the U.S. that the company no longer plans to pay publishers for their content …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
NBCU reports Q2 revenue of $9.4B, up 18.7% YoY, and adjusted EBITDA of $1.9B, up 19.5% YoY; Peacock had a $467M loss and subscribers stayed flat from Q1 at 13M — - Comcast's broadband subscribers were flat at 32.2 million for the quarter. The company said it lost 30,000 this month alone.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery hires Alan Horn as a consultant; he left Disney in 2021 after serving as chief creative officer and co-chairman of Walt Disney Studios — Disney's former chief creative officer Alan Horn is joining Warner Bros. Discovery. — Horn, who retired from Disney in 2021 …
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google delays phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after deferring the plan from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests — Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its browser by 2022, but that was later pushed back to 2023.
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snap launches a Sounds Creator Fund, awarding up to $100K/month to artists using DistroKid to distribute songs on Snapchat, or $5K per song, starting in August — Snap is launching a new Sounds Creator Fund to financially support independent artists who are distributing music on Snapchat via DistroKid.
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Peter Houston / Media Voices:
Interview with Medium's VP of Content, who says it is focused on highlighting experts and needs to figure out how to provide users with predictable growth — In our final episode of the season, we hear from Medium's VP of Content Scott Lamb. Scott leads the content and creator relations teams …
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@tvgrimreaper and What's New in Publishing
Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
How Florida Power & Light bankrolled the Capitolist, which portrayed itself as a feisty independent outlet, to lobby on FPL's behalf — When Florida Power & Light faced a spate of bad publicity and political blowback, a small but ambitious news website called the Capitolist sprang to the public utility's defense.
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@bgrueskin, Occupy Democrats, Gizmodo, Poynter and The Guardian
Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:
A writer details how a podcast plagiarized his work, a widespread problem as demand for podcasts balloons while original reporting demands a lot of work — A podcast I'd never heard of before stole my work. I'm not alone. — A year ago, after half a decade of original research and reporting …
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty — Social-media giant missed Wall Street's sales expectation but added users—defying analysts' projections — The Tech Sector Is Taking a Beating.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports H1 2022 revenue rose 8% YoY to £1.67B, driven by ITV Studios, up 16% YoY to £927M; total ad revenue rose 5% YoY and digital ad revenue rose 20% YoY — U.K. broadcaster ITV's total external revenues are up 8% at £1.67 billion ($2.04 billion), according to half year financial results released on Thursday.
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Filing: Spotify bought Findaway for €117M, Sonantic for €91M, and Chartable and Podsights for €83M, with a possible extra payment of €21M — Spotify has quietly announced how much it's paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it's doling out a combined €291 million …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok plans to give select researchers “public and anonymized data” from its platform and moderation system to “assess content and trends or conducts tests” — The move comes hours after a report reveals TikTok's efforts to distance itself from China
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