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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen ratings for the Emmys fell to a record low, with 5.92M viewers in 2022 compared to 7.83M in 2021; Monday Night Football's debut drew 19.84M, up 17% YoY — The awards dip below 6 million viewers for the first time ever. — The Emmy Awards fell to an all-time low in viewers for the third time in the past four years.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
HBO and HBO Max won 37 awards at the 74th Emmy Awards, while Netflix won 26, Hulu eight, Apple TV+ seven, NBC seven, Disney+ six, and Amazon Prime Video six
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT Cooking will sell $95 at-home cooking kits curated by guest chefs, to grow revenue and boost readership — The kits offer a new avenue to increase revenue and readership for the paper's subscription cooking site.
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New York Times and @alexweprin
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Patreon lays off 80 employees, or about 17% of its staff, closes its Dublin and Berlin offices, and plans to consolidate its engineering teams in the US — The creator subscription company Patreon is the latest company to be affected by a long line of tech layoffs.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Denmark-based Podimo, a subscription service for podcasts and audiobooks, raised €58.6M led by 83North, Highland, and Saban, bringing its total funding to €162M — Listen up: Podimo, the Denmark-based subscription service for podcasts and audiobooks, said it secured €58.6 million …
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Axios, Bloomberg, Music Business Worldwide, @kerrymflynn and Tech.eu, more at Techmeme »
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
About 215 members of NBC News' digital newsroom union, part of the NewsGuild of New York, vowed to work from home this week rather than return to the office — Some vow to work from home all of this week, the first in which both organizations expect employees back some of the time
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge launches a redesign with a “modern newsfeed experience” that includes links to other sites, alongside a new logo, typefaces, comment system, and more — Revolutionizing the media with blog posts … We've got a whole new Verge for you today. Radically new.
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Axios:
An analysis of 82 major US publishers: their largest collective following is on Twitter, followed by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok — Twitter is still the place where media publishers collectively have the largest audiences, followed by Facebook and Instagram …
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Financial Times:
How Wall Street spent billions buying music rights, turning songs into a new asset class; Midia says catalog deals were $5.3B in 2021, up from $1.9B in 2020 — Investors poured billions into buying rights, turning pop songs into a new asset class — but then the economy stalled
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Following the Queen's death, UK news outlets report the biggest traffic surge since the 2020 US election; Guardian's traffic peaked at 250K+ page views/minute — The death of the Queen has led to a large jump in audiences turning to established news brands, with some recording their most-read online stories ever.
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@pressgazette, @pressgazette and @davidclinchnews
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
In an email to developers, Apple says that new App Store ad placements will be available for the 2022 holiday season — - Apple is planning to release new ad “placements” as soon as the holiday season. — The new ad units represent a significant expansion in Apple's advertising inventory, which is focused on its App Store.
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission plans to introduce the Media Freedom Act, starting a lengthy process to tighten rules on media groups seeking to acquire smaller rivals — The European Union wants to enact tougher rules for media groups seeking to acquire smaller rivals on whether …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg ramps up its coverage plans ahead of the US midterms with a new podcast, annual summit, ticketed policy debate series, weekly politics show, and more — Bloomberg Media is ramping up its D.C. coverage plans ahead of the midterms with a slew of new products, hires and events.
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