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Hamish McKenzie / On Substack:
Substack co-founder says it's time for a “real alternative” to Twitter, and plans features to let writers and readers “hang out”, show their status, and more — It's time you had your own private social network — If you're into writing and reading …
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Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Facebook expands professional mode, letting all creators globally earn money from various monetization programs, including Reels Play bonuses and subscriptions — Meta has announced the global expansion of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators.
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Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Meta lets select Instagram creators in the US test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024
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Reuters:
Sources: Murdoch is pursuing the Fox/News Corp merger because combining live game broadcasts and sports coverage would help with Fox's sports betting foray — Rupert Murdoch's proposal to recombine News Corp (NWSA.O) and Fox Corp (FOXA.O) and capitalize on sports betting has yet …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Advance Publications, owner of 24 newspapers and Condé Nast, plans to stop printing Alabama's three largest newspapers and make them digital-only in February — Advance Publications to make Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Press-Register digital-only
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
How The Washington Post, NBC News, and SmartNews are preparing for the 2022 US midterms with personalized local news, better content packages, visuals, and more — News apps and aggregators are gearing up for the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8 by rolling out new features to help readers …
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Stephanie Lai / New York Times:
A look at how political campaigns are using influencers, a practice the FEC's campaign finance laws do not regulate; the practice is bound by the honor system — Campaigns are using social media influencers as a way to reach young and diverse voters, a novel and mostly unregulated strategy.
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@juliammccarthy, @stephaniealai and OpenSecrets.org
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Dish raises Sling TV prices to $40/month, double the price it charged when it launched the base package seven years ago — Dish Network's streaming television service Sling TV says it is rolling out a price increase on its base plans. — The price increase comes more than a month …
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Alex Ritman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, former WSJ reporters who wrote Billion Dollar Whale, created the podcast Fat Leonard, which was adapted for TV, and more — Bradley Hope and Tom Wright discuss their “global journalism studio and production company” and fast-tracking podcasts to scripted TV.
The Guardian:
As digital ad revenue declines, Evgeny Lebedev's The Independent puts 52 roles at risk of redundancy in the UK, 30 of which are in editorial, out of ~240 staff — The online-only publisher saw a fifth consecutive year of profitability in 2021, but said it now needs to cut costs
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $761.4M, vs. $694M est., 21.9B streaming hours, and 2.3M active accounts added; the stock drops 18%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Roku handily topped Wall Street estimates for the third quarter of 2022, as the streaming platform and media company packed …
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Patreon launches a native ad-free video hosting tool for creators, expanding on support for third-party players, available to a select group in beta — The update marks a major shift in how creators on Patreon can share video content with fans. Previously, creators had to upload videos …
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