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10:10 PM ET, April 11, 2024

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly — Prime Video has a big audience, and now Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has put a new number on it: The premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.

Discussion: About Amazon, Deadline, Fortune, Sebastiaan van Wijngaarden on LinkedIn, Washington Post, Beryl Tomay on LinkedIn, Media Play News, The Streamable, Observer, Josh White on LinkedIn, MarketWatch, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Amazon hires Krishan Bhatia, previously a senior NBCUniversal exec, as VP of global video advertising for Amazon Ads, leading global sales for video operations — As Amazon ramps up its efforts to woo ad dollars that once were earmarked for traditional TV, it is also luring ad executives …

Discussion: Adweek, Ad Age, Next TV and Brian Steinberg on LinkedIn

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Paramount is shutting down Showtime's streaming service on April 30, after it integrated Showtime's programming into the top-tier Paramount+ plan in June 2023 — Sunset of premium TV service's standalone apps comes after its integration into Paramount+ With Showtime package

Discussion: The Wrap, TVLine, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and The Verge

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:

How “made for advertising” sites, which are criticized for their UX and dubious results for advertisers, get ~15% of automated ad spend or $10B/year, per ANA — Industry leaders want brands to shun ‘MFA’ websites. Others think more nuance is needed.

Discussion: Dr. Augustine Fou on LinkedIn, Heidi Saas on LinkedIn, Nandini Jammi on LinkedIn and Adweek

The Information:

Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers — TikTok touts itself as a platform where creators can stand out and build a following. But the company has begun discussing with advertisers …

Discussion: MediaPost, Brandon Perlman on LinkedIn and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Flipboard:

Flipboard makes 400 creators and 11,000 of their curated magazines visible in the fediverse and integrates fediverse notifications into the Flipboard app — Today Flipboard is taking two big steps toward opening its platform to the fediverse, making 400 creators and 11,000 …

Discussion: @timothyjchambers@threads.net, TechCrunch, @Flipboard@flipboard.social and @coffeegeek@flipboard.social

Doja Daoud / Committee to Protect Journalists:

Q&A with Gaza journalist Diaa Al-Kahlout, Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, on being held for 33 days in Israeli custody — Diaa Al-Kahlout, the veteran Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed …

Discussion: Naomi Zeveloff on LinkedIn, @jfsteinfeld, Doja Daoud on LinkedIn, @caseyrights and @gypsystrategy

New York Times:

Uri Berliner's essay about NPR reignited criticism of the outlet on social media, especially by conservatives, and spurred vehement pushback from some staffers — An essay from an editor at the broadcaster has generated a firestorm of criticism about the network on social media, especially among conservatives.

Variety:

Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, after UMG pulled her songs as part of an ongoing dispute with TikTok — As of Thursday morning, multiple Swift songs — including “You Belong With Me,” “Lover,” “Cardigan,” “Mirrorball,” “Fearless …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:

Substack now lets podcasters distribute their shows on Spotify, and says podcasters on Substack collectively earn $100M+ per year, up 100%+ over the past year — Substack announced on Thursday it's introducing a few new features for podcasters on its platform.

Discussion: On Substack, Spotify, Engadget, MSPoweruser and RAIN News, more at Techmeme »

Brian Bonilla / Ad Age:

A look at The Way Upfronts, a quarterly event debuting in May and led by Sugar23, where producers and celebrities will pitch their projects to brands to invest — Host committee includes Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Tom Brady, Elizabeth Banks and Steven Soderbergh

Discussion: Brian Bonilla on LinkedIn and @adage

Emilia David / The Verge:

The Weather Company launches ReelSphere, an AI-powered video creation tool that provides captions, hyperlocal weather overlays, and an AI “meteorologist” — Generative AI could be coming to your local TV station as The Weather Company, aka the people that run The Weather Channel …

Discussion: The Weather Company, The Weather Company and Next TV

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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC names Alex Kay-Jelski, currently The Athletic's UK and Europe EIC, as Director of BBC Sport, starting in June 2024

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Axios changes strategy in response to AI: more events, a $1K/year membership program, and more subscription newsletters; Aja Whitaker-Moore will be the new EIC

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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify is developing tools to let subscribers speed up, mash up, or edit songs as a type of playback feature; rights holders would still get paid

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Docs: Adobe offers its network of photographers $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62/minute to ~$7.25/minute on average, to train AI

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Avi Asher-Schapiro / Context:
Unions representing animation and VFX workers plan to demand rules for how studios deploy AI, as most entertainment executives see AI displacing workers

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Richard Smirke / Billboard:
The UK parliament's CMS Committee urges the government to address “pitiful returns” for songwriters from music streaming, including changing the revenue split

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012

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Jeff Jarvis / Nieman Lab:
Excerpts from an analysis of the California Journalism Preservation Act, which has yet to pass the state Senate, including its many weaknesses and alternatives

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Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders says Hong Kong authorities detained and deported a Taiwan-based RSF advocacy officer who had planned to cover the Jimmy Lai trial

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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times hires Matthew Rose, who has held multiple senior editing posts at The Wall Street Journal, as editorial director for its Opinion section

Discussion: MediaPost, @tunkuv and Matthew Rose on LinkedIn

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Meta, to assess if Facebook, Instagram, and its other apps were reinforcing “rabbit hole” effects and other issues

Wall Street Journal:
Source: Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 employees involved in its China-based AI and cloud computing operations to consider relocating to other countries

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google releases an emergency Chrome update to patch the third zero-day vulnerability exploited within a week, and the seventh zero-day fix in 2024 so far

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