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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 — DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
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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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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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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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Micah Lee / The Intercept:
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite lifted suspensions, until they delete a specific tweet — I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” …
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US lawmakers left out a proposal from the $1.7T omnibus spending bill to make the PACER online court records system free — U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling, $1.66 trillion spending measure unveiled on Tuesday …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Internal memo: Paramount Global no longer plans to host its May 2023 upfront presentation for ad buyers at Carnegie Hall, favoring “intimate gatherings” instead — Signaling the end of a media business ritual, Paramount Global has indicated it will not host an upfront presentation …
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Stephanie Sugars / U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
In 2022, 12 US journalists were arrested or detained, far fewer than in 2020 or 2021; eight were detained during a weekend of protests over reproductive rights — Eight journalists detained over one weekend of reproductive rights protests this summer — On a Friday this June …
Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
The Dow Jones Media Titans index, which tracks 30 of the world's biggest media companies, saw its total market value shrink 40% from $1.35T to $808B in 2022 — Streaming services hit by rising costs, consumer belt-tightening and drop in advertising — More than $500bn has been wiped off …
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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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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