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Micah Lee / The Intercept:
Donie O'Sullivan, Matt Binder, Steve Herman, Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and others remain locked out of their Twitter accounts, most until they delete tweets — I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” hypocrisy and his censorship of left-wing accounts.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting — Agreement on the subscription package for most Sunday afternoon football games could be reached as early as Wednesday
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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; ~57% of ad-tier subscribers were people re-joining or new signups, while ~43% downgraded — Streaming giant's ad-backed plan accounted for 9% of new signups in the U.S. in November, according to subscription-analytics firm Antenna
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Q&A with Netflix President of Worldwide Advertising Jeremi Gorman on the service's long-term ambitions for the ad tier beyond 15- and 30-second ads and more — 2022 was a big year for Jeremi Gorman. The former Amazon executive stepped down as Snap's chief business officer …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with some accounts, helping publishers identify brands and key employees associated with them via badges — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column, where he said he “hated” Meghan Markle, received 20K+ complaints, more than all the complaints to IPSO in 2021 — Ipso receives in excess of 17,500 objections to Sun article, more than the regulator received in the whole of 2021
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Investigation: six Alabama and Florida outlets that attacked critics of power companies have financial ties to Matrix, a consulting firm the utilities hired — NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017 — Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of all U.S. digital advertising …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
After negotiations with the UK's NUJ, The Financial Times agrees to a £4,200 pay raise for salaries under £42,000 and a 10% hike for those on £42,000 to £50,001 — The FT's is the largest cumulative pay rise recently reported by Press Gazette.
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US lawmakers left out a proposal to make the PACER online court records system free from the $1.7T omnibus spending bill, due for a vote this week — U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling …
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David Satin / The Streamable:
Ampere Analysis: the Disney Bundle is an effective tool against price sensitivity among customers and 32% of Hulu's total users have bundled it with Disney+ — Many have speculated that the way forward for an increasingly mature streaming market is aggregation.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Television Academy scraps “variety talk” and “variety sketch” Emmy categories and adds “outstanding talk series” and “outstanding scripted variety series” — The Television Academy is taking another stab at resolving its Emmys variety talk and variety sketch category conundrum.
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