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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to add live sports to Max at no extra cost for a limited time later in 2023, and start charging a sports fee likely in February or March 2024 — Customers will need to pay an additional amount for sports starting next year, likely around February or March, said the people …
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Interviews with 25+ people who worked with Bob Iger and Bob Chapek between 2020 and 2022 detail how Disney's CEO succession plan went awry and brought back Iger — - What did a private bathroom, Oogie Boogie and a hippo have to do with the behind-the-scenes chaos between Bob Iger and Bob Chapek at Disney?
Lane Brown / Vulture:
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube …
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Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge:
Some small independent publishers struggle after Amazon ended Kindle Periodicals on September 4; Fantasy Magazine said its last issue will be in October 2023 — I like short stories. I read them, and I write them. I grew up subscribing to and reading The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
How the NFL conquered Hollywood via $110B in deals for exclusive live games with broadcasters and streamers, producing scripted and unscripted content, and more — To the tune of $110 billion, the league has shrewdly leveraged the fact that media — whether NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN or Amazon and YouTube …
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Reuters:
A Burmese court sentences photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike to 20 years in prison, the longest known prison term given to a media employee since the 2021 army coup — A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison, his employer said …
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Deadline:
A look at Netflix's success-based residuals in France, Germany, and Scandinavia, driven by laws about authors' rights, as some in the US debate such metrics — Since the outbreak of the dual Hollywood labor strikes, the issue of residuals has risen to the fore as a key battleground dividing …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku plans to lay off 300+, or 10% of its staff, close offices, and take an up to $65M impairment charge in Q3 2023 for cutting some content; ROKU jumps 5%+ — Roku will cut more than 300 staffers — laying off 10% of its workforce — as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Spotify is testing making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets” — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song …
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