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11:00 AM ET, September 18, 2024

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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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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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Podnews
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 …
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.
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.
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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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Sanjai P R / Bloomberg:
UK filing: Zee Entertainment says Disney's Indian unit is seeking $940M in damages after Zee defaulted on payment for TV rights of cricket matches
Discussion: Variety and Reuters
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
In her new memoir, “Connie”, Connie Chung discusses her career as CBS' anchorwoman, the sexism that shadowed her career, and her experiences with Dan Rather
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Five contestants in Beast Games sue MrBeast and Amazon, claiming unpaid wages, emotional distress, the production failed to prevent sexual harassment, and more
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Sam Sabin / Axios:
Microsoft: starting in late August 2024, Russian cyber operatives focused on Harris' campaign, with disinformation including videos spread by a fake news outlet
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills restricting the use of AI replicas of performers, building on protections SAG-AFTRA sought in its 2023 strike
Ian Wylie / The Guardian:
German nonprofit Media in Cooperation and Transition is providing sanctuary for exiled journalists exposing human rights abuses in their own countries
Miranda Murray / Reuters:
The German cartel office says RTL and Paramount have withdrawn their bid to merge their respective kid-focused TV networks, Super RTL and Nickelodeon