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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Netflix reports its UK earnings for the first time, £1.4B in 2021 revenue and £31.7M in profit, after moving UK-based subscribers to its British subsidiaries — US streaming service behind The Crown and Stranger Things also pays record corporation tax of nearly £7m
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Samanth Subramanian / New Yorker:
How Narendra Modi's BJP and Hindu nationalist groups pressured Bollywood, Amazon Prime Video, and others into self-censorship and making nationalistic content — The industry used to honor India's secular ideals—but, since the rise of Narendra Modi, it's been flooded with stock Hindu heroes and Muslim villains.
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John Reed / Financial Times:
An in-depth look at India's crackdown on freedom of expression under Narendra Modi, driven by legal threats and intimidation, and the impact on media outlets — The income tax officials arrived at the Bangalore office of the Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation on Wednesday, September 7, and stayed until 4:30am on Friday.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, opened in 2021 to let anyone “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate users with FLOW tokens or stablecoins — You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace …
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Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Nikki Finke, who presented herself as a no-bullshit reporter, perverted the profession by blackmailing sources and weaponizing the internet to push her agenda — Finke presented herself as a no-bullshit reporter who kept Hollywood moguls honest, and we all found her copy completely irresistible.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media plans to stop serving open-market third-party programmatic display ads in 2023 and stop using Taboola to improve the user experience — The publisher will use the inventory, in part, to promote other product offerings — The business news publisher Bloomberg Media …
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New York Times:
Kantar: ad revenue for the four US late-night talk shows fell 16% YoY to $253.6M in H1 2022; sources: NBC mulls moving Seth Meyers' show to Peacock or MSNBC — Big changes are coming to the longtime staple of television programming, as the genre struggles to make the leap to the streaming world.
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
The UK's Reach says the marketing blackout after the Queen's death caused print advertising to drop by almost a third and digital revenue by 8% in September — Reach's print advertising drops by a third in September and digital revenues slide — The publisher of the Daily Express …
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Legendary Television President Chris Albrecht has been placed on leave; a new book details an incident at HBO where Albrecht allegedly disparaged a staffer — According to material viewed by THR from a forthcoming book about HBO, the former network chairman allegedly disparaged a staffer who took a settlement after he choked her.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Over a dozen job openings hint TikTok plans to open fulfillment centers in the US as the company looks to build an “international e-commerce fulfillment system” — TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system …
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Sources: Netflix taps Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify as its first partners to analyze ad views when the company starts running ads in the coming months — Streaming giant brings in DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science to analyze ad views — Netflix has recognized the need …
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@garettsloane and The Drum
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts — YouTube is making it easier for creators to direct viewers to their channels. The company today announced “handles …
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