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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.
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku misses with Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $764M, vs. $805.2M estimated, and reaches 63.1M active accounts, up 1.8M QoQ; stock down ~26% after hours — 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.
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 …
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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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple reports Services revenue grew 12% YoY to $19.6B in Q3 2022 and it has 816M paying subscribers globally across all its services, down 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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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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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q2 advertising services revenue grew 18% YoY to $8.76B, vs. $8.65B est., and subscription services grew 10% YoY to $8.72B — - Amazon reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat on the top line. — It also gave upbeat guidance for the third quarter.
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 …
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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