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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 …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
NBCUniversal reports Q2 revenue up 18.7% YoY to $9.4B and adjusted EBITDA up 19.5% YoY to $1.9B; Peacock lost $467M as its subscribers stayed flat QoQ 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.
Kate Aurthur / Variety:
Over 400 TV creators and showrunners demand that Netflix, Disney, WBD, NBCU, Apple, and others publish policies to protect employees in abortion-banning states — On Thursday morning, a collective of more than 400 television creators and showrunners sent a letter to top-level executives at Netflix …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations — Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now. Adam Mosseri explains why
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Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
How Florida Power & Light bankrolled and controlled the Capitolist, which portrayed itself as a feisty independent outlet, to bash Florida Power & Light critics — When Florida Power & Light faced a spate of bad publicity and political blowback, a small but ambitious news website called …
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@blaskey_s, @bgrueskin, @racheyy_marie, @evesamples, @carlosgsmith, @conarck, Substack, @samjmintz, @matthewdalywdc, Occupy Democrats, Gizmodo, Poynter and The Guardian
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple reports Services revenue grew 12% YoY to $19.6B in Q3 2022 and 860M paying subscribers globally across all its services, up from 825M in Q2 2022 — - Apple reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations for sales and profit but showed slowing growth for the iPhone maker.
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Insider, UPI, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, @timkhiggins, @kifleswing, @jyarow, @charlesadler and AppleInsider, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:
A writer details how a podcast plagiarized his work, a widespread issue as demand for podcast content exceeds the amount of original reporting by journalists — 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 …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery hires Alan Horn as a consultant; Horn left Disney in 2021 after serving as The Walt Disney Studios' chief creative officer and co-chair — Disney's former chief creative officer Alan Horn is joining Warner Bros. Discovery. — Horn, who retired from Disney in 2021 …
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@sherazfarooqi_, The Wrap, Observer, @blackmajikman90, @richlightshed and @loudmouthjulia
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku misses with Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $764M, vs. $805.2M est., 200M fewer streaming hours at 20.7B, and 1.8M active accounts added to 63.1M; stock down 25%+ — Roku fell short of Wall Street financial forecasts for the second quarter — and the streaming platform saw the number of hours streamed by customers drop from Q1.
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Adweek, TechCrunch, MediaPost, Roku, The Wrap, @dadehayes, The Streamable, Protocol, CNBC, Deadline, @xpangler, @xpangler and @adweek, more at Techmeme »
Peter Houston / Media Voices:
An interview with Medium VP of Content Scott Lamb, who says it is focused on highlighting experts and needs to figure out how to give users 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
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
NLA Media Access helped get 50K+ articles from 1K fake or illegitimate news sites removed in the UK in 2021, up from ~20K articles and 700+ sources in 2020 — The number of cloned and ripped-off news articles successfully taken down from “pretty sophisticated fake sites” …
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American Press Institute
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolls out a new tool that lets creators select up to 60 seconds of any video they posted and turn it into Shorts content, available on Android and iOS — YouTube wants to quickly ramp up the number of short-form “Shorts” videos available on its platform in order to better compete with TikTok.
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@killedbygoogle, Mashable and Tubefilter
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snap launches a Sounds Creator Fund, awarding up to $100K per month to artists distributing songs on Snapchat via DistroKid, 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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Tubefilter, Snap Newsroom, Music Business Worldwide, Adweek, Variety and Hypebot
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