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Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times:
Sources: in early 2020, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner criticized Adidas in 20+ articles in Bild for freezing rents without disclosing being Adidas' landlord — Mathias Döpfner orchestrated stories against company for pausing rents without disclosing his interest
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Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Netflix told ad buyers the company expects its ad-supported tier to reach 4.4M unique viewers globally in 2022, and ~40M by Q3 2023, with 13.3M in the US — Streaming giant shared projections for ‘unique viewers’ across a dozen launch markets with ad buyers
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Digital TV Europe, @richlightshed, @danrayburn, @carlquintanilla, Media Play News and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:
[Thread] Most links are now broken on AllThingsD, started by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who unsuccessfully tried to buy its archives from the WSJ in 2013 — This is a thread on the ephemeral nature of content, who owns your work & why creators need to own their IP, which just hit home when I was doing research for my memoir on covering the rise of Silicon Valley. Why? Because most the work we did at All Things Digital has gone poof. https://twitter.com/...
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John Koblin / New York Times:
CNN plans to completely revamp its morning show in late October, adding hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins, in Chris Licht's biggest move yet — The morning slot will be hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. The move leaves open Mr. Lemon's prime-time slot.
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Local newsletter network 6AM City says it's in 25 cities, reports $3.5M in 2021 revenue, and expects to hit ~$10M in 2022 revenue ahead of profitability in 2023 — Press Gazette has listed the biggest newsletter-based publishers in the world and spoken to several about how to build an email-based news business.
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount considers shutting down its Showtime streaming service in the US and moving its content to Paramount+, matching some international markets — Move would bring together two of entertainment company's offerings in a crowded sector — Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak, Here's How It Plans to Keep Growing
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Deadline, @tvgrimreaper, Observer, @shiraovide, Deadline, The Wrap, IndieWire, The Week, Variety, Decider, @ballmatthew, @tvgrimreaper, @great_katzby, @thegregorye, @tomi, @matthewkeyslive, ScreenRant, Collider, The Playlist, MediaPost, Digital TV Europe, The Hollywood Reporter, The A.V. Club, Media Play News, The Desk and The Streamable
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast would be interested in buying Disney's part of Hulu, if Disney would sell; Disney's CEO has said he wants Comcast's third — Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called Hulu a “phenomenal business” — and said that if Disney were willing to sell it …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta's Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia — California's antitrust lawsuit claims customers have “nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it.”
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@oversightboard and @russellbrandom, more at Techmeme »
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Bergen on his book Like, Comment, Subscribe, chronicling YouTube's evolution from a scrappy startup to a pivotal part of Google and social media — Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box … YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it's such a black box …
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@sarthakgh and @mhbergen
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Some opponents of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act predict the bill won't become law in 2022 due to partisan differences about content moderation — Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment barring content-moderation prompts partisan bickering over bipartisan bill
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@benpershing, Breitbart, @dangillmor and @alexbruell
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Longtime CNN executive Rebecca Kutler, who was laid off as CNN+ programming chief in June, plans to join MSNBC as SVP of content strategy — Longtime CNN executive and former CNN+ programming chief Rebecca Kutler has landed at MSNBC as svp of content strategy.
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon's Amp live audio and radio app launches a fund to provide monthly payments to select creators, following similar funds from TikTok, Snap, and Meta — To be eligible, creators must host at least one live show a month. — Amp, the live audio and radio app from Amazon …
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