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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 — The combined HBO and HBO Max surged past rival Netflix in this year's overall Emmys tally, winning a dozen prizes tonight for a total …
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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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Bloomberg:
The New York Times offered branded lunchboxes to welcome workers back to the office, as 1,200+ employees work from home to protest stalled contract negotiations — Hundreds of New York Times Co. employees are working from home this week in defiance of the company's renewed return-to-office push.
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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
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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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Jem Aswad / Variety:
YouTube paid $6B+ to the music industry from July 2021 to June 2022, up $2B YoY, and says user generated content drove 30%+ of payouts for a second year running — YouTube, the world's largest streaming platform for music, announced that it has paid more than $6 billion to the music industry …
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter rolls out its redesigned Spaces tab to Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS, which includes live and recorded Spaces, podcasts, and themed audio stations — Twitter has begun rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab. Starting today, Twitter Blue members on iOS can check …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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