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Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over behavioral ad data violations, giving Meta three months to resolve the issues, a significant blow to Meta's EU ad business — Meta faces €390 million in fines and must find a new legal route to targeted ads, while the Irish regulator is suing …
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Leaked letter: UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan recommends dropping plans to privatize Channel 4, saying there are better ways to secure its sustainability — Channel 4 privatization is off the cards. — UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak …
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J. Scott Trubey / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution names Andrew Morse, a former CNN, Bloomberg, and ABC News executive, as its next president and publisher — Former CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News executive to help lead digital transition — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found its next president and publisher …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon creates a single unit for Prime Video, MGM+, and Freevee, led by Amazon veteran Andrew Bennett, reporting to VP of International at Prime Video Kelly Day — EXCLUSIVE: In its latest corporate realignment, Amazon has created a single unit for third-party living room device business development …
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Twitter begins relaxing its longstanding ban on cause-based ads in the US and plans to expand permitted political advertising in the coming weeks — Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
UTA acquires New York-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house Fletcher & Company, which will be folded into the overall UTA Publishing division — As part of the deal, the New York-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house's founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Roku plans to launch its own TVs in spring 2023 across two brands, Roku Select and Roku Plus, ranging from 24-inches for $119 to 75-inches for $999 — Roku is making big news at CES 2023: the company long known for its streaming players and easy-to-use software plans to release its own lineup of TVs this year.
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Rebecca Sun / The Hollywood Reporter:
USC and SDSU studies on Hollywood diversity behind the camera: women remained significantly underrepresented among directors of the top 100 movies in 2022 — “We get distracted by the incremental movement of the numbers from year to year, but often fail to notice the lack of substantial gains …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen plans to launch its cross-platform measurement product One Ads on January 11, offering measurement of content and ads at the second-by-second level — The cross-platform measurement product has been hotly anticipated by marketers. … The company says that the cross-platform measurement product …
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Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Vox Media says it will no longer run ads from fossil fuel companies, “kind of formalizing” a policy the publisher has had in place since early 2021 — The company also announced a carbon-neutral ad offering. … To ring in the new year on a sustainable note …
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
A look at China's growing “virtual people” industry; Kantar: 36%+ of consumers watched virtual influencers in 2022, 45% of advertisers might sponsor one in 2023 — - Tech company Baidu said the number of virtual people projects it's worked on for clients has doubled since 2021 …
New York Times:
SDNY email: Filippo Bernardini, arrested by the FBI in 2022 over allegedly stealing book manuscripts, is expected to plead guilty to wire fraud on Friday — Filippo Bernardini was arrested by the F.B.I. last year. He is expected to enter his plea on Friday, ending a yearslong saga that captivated the industry.
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