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Doc: Rupert Murdoch wants to change his family trust to ensure Lachlan Murdoch stays in charge of the media empire; three other siblings are fighting the move — Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force.
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Kendra Barnett / The Drum:
Publicis Groupe announces it will acquire Influential, the world's largest influencer agency by measure of revenue; Influential has a network of 3.5M+ creators — News of the acquisition comes just one week after the holding company posted impressive Q2 results.
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool — A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data.
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
The AP removed a fact check debunking the claim that JD Vance admitted he had sex with a couch; AP said the post didn't go through its standard editing process — The Associated Press removed its fact-check debunking the claim that former President Donald Trump's running mate Senator JD Vance …
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Bloomberg:
Together, the NBA's deals with Disney's ESPN and Comcast's NBC are expected to generate $76B over 11 years, with Amazon paying about $1.8B annually — The National Basketball Association announced new long-term TV contract with Amazon.com Inc., spurning a last minute effort by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NBA declines WBD's effort to join the set of rights packages built for Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal, saying WBD's proposal did not match Amazon's offer
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WNBA's deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon, which is reportedly worth ~$200M/season, includes more national telecasts and an increased global reach
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1 …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit
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Daysia Tolentino / NBC News:
Longtime Mr. Beast collaborator Ava Kris Tyson leaves the YouTube channel after allegations of grooming; Tyson and the alleged victim denied the accusations — Tyson and the alleged victim denied the allegations. — Ava Kris Tyson, a longtime friend and collaborator of YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson …
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Jorja Siemons / Bloomberg Law:
Ozy Media drops its lawsuit claiming Ben Smith used trade secrets from Ozy to create and launch Semafor — Ozy Media Inc. ended its lawsuit claiming journalist Ben Smith used trade secrets to create and launch the global news platform Semafor Inc. — Judge Frederic Block of the US District Court …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A US judge rejects ABC News' motion to dismiss Trump's defamation suit filed after George Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll — The litigation stems from a March 10 interview in which George Stephanopoulos, the network's star anchor, referred to a civil case brought …
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Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
UMG shares fell as much as 30% on Thursday, the biggest decline since company's IPO, and closed down 21%, after revenue growth disappointed investors — - The company's shareholders include billionaire Bill Ackman — Universal Music Group is the world's biggest record label
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Catherine Perloff / Adweek:
Six ad firms are limiting their clients' exposure to streaming ads from Pluto TV because they say Pluto exploits auctions using bid duplication to raise prices — Buyers who've pulled spend from the Paramount-owned FAST platform are concerned it's tricking their algorithms into spending too much
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
ITV reports H1 adjusted EBITA up 40% YoY to £212M, revenue down 3% to £1.9B, ad revenue up 10% to £889M, ITV Studios down 13% to £869M due to strikes in the US — The commercial net's adjusted EBITA was up 40% to £212M ($273M), although revenues dipped slightly to £1.9B.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Time Studios President Dave O'Connor on merging Time's branded content division with its in-house production company to make original content — The Marc Benioff-owned publisher merged its branded content division into its in-house production company as it looks to sell film and TV projects to networks and studios.
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