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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube plans a major connected TV app revamp, with a new UI and features like immersive previews for creator pages and an updated subscribe functionality — The platform will let creators organize their videos around episodes and seasons, while adding cinematic “immersive previews” and other functionality.
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The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube launches Communities, a mix of old-school forums, subreddit, and Facebook group, and a new Community Hub to help creators use Communities — Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube unveils Hype, a new promotional system inside of YouTube to help boost smaller creators; the most-hyped videos appear on a platform-wide leaderboard — It's a new way for viewers to share the stuff they really like — and for creators to grow on an increasingly busy platform.
Discussion:
Deadline, more at Techmeme »
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Patreon adds Autopilot, which predicts free members that are most likely to upgrade and offers discounts, after finding upgrade rates grew by ~19% in testing — Patreon is rolling out new automated features for creators to convert free members to paid ones.
Discussion:
Patreon and Tubefilter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memos: Spotify VP and Head of Content Business Sahar Elhabashi plans to leave at the end of 2024; Roman Wasenmüller will become interim podcast head — Sahar Elhabashi, VP and head of the podcast business at Spotify, will leave the streaming giant at the end of 2024 after six years at the company.
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Podnews
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows — Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model
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The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Runway, Media Play News, VentureBeat, Runway and WORLD SCREEN
Gregory P. Perreault / Nieman Lab:
Interviews with 20 journalists focused on why they stayed in the profession: emotional ties with audiences, chances to learn for a living, camaraderie, and more — “The day-to-day work of news, journalists reminded us, was the opportunity to learn for a living.”
Discussion:
@mbalter, Karly Cox on LinkedIn, @gregperreault and @niemanlab
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
The Atlantic poses as a magazine of thoughtful ideas, but its writers get away with sloppy, unsupported arguments, and its errors are long-lasting and insidious — Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out — LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated its terms …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Law360 workers end their strike after reaching a five-year contract deal that lifts wages by an average of 12%, includes an average bonus of $9,000, and more — Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 have reached a tentative five-year contract deal that, among many gains …
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@frankrunyeon, @aebra_coe, @bykatiebuehler, @candace_pedraza and @kdgscribe
Oliver Darcy / Status:
CNN quietly pulled some primetime shows, including Anderson Cooper 360, over the summer from CNN Max, which remains in beta for its first anniversary — Over the summer, CNN discreetly pulled its high-profile primetime programs from CNN Max. The move was made quietly and without any explanation.
Rachel Tashjian / Washington Post:
A look at the growth of fashion and shopping on Substack, including coverage of New York Fashion Week and Substack's plans for a Paris Fashion Week event — The newsletter platform has become a place to discuss, offer advice on and celebrate shopping — and make a lot of money doing so.
Discussion:
Christina Loff on LinkedIn and Marc Bridge on LinkedIn
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snap debuts a tool that lets select creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundation video models — At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it's introducing a new AI video-generation tool for creators.
Discussion:
MIT Technology Review, TVNewsCheck and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snapchat gets a redesign that pares down five tabs to three, including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators
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