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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.83B, vs. $9.76B est., paid memberships up 14% to 282.72M, vs. 282.15M est., and net income of $2.4B — LOS ANGELES — Netflix posted third-quarter earnings that beat on the top and bottom line Thursday after the bell.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
The FCC proposed a $147K fine against Disney's ESPN after the network used Emergency Alert System tones in promotional spots in 2023; ESPN can appeal — The tones were utilized in promotional spots for the network's coverage of the NBA. — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Google will block US election ads after the polls close on November 5 to prevent misinfo about voting, including candidates prematurely claiming victory — - Google is implementing the policy “out of an abundance of caution and to limit the potential for confusion …
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Source: Sputnik no longer broadcasts around Washington, DC, or Kansas City, MO, after the State Department imposed new sanctions on Russian-backed broadcasters — Radio stations in two markets will be dropping their affiliation with Russia-backed programming distributor Sputnik by the end of the week, The Desk has learned.
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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Industry forums indicate payouts from Adobe to contributors to Adobe Stock, used to train AI, range widely from two to four figures for major video contributors — Adobe thinks it has found a cure for AI job anxiety: cash. But first... • ASML is being questioned by Dutch authorities …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Sun begins rolling out a registration wall asking users to create an account and seems to be applying it mainly to content by its best-known writers — The Sun has begun rolling out a registration wall asking users to sign up for free to read certain stories.
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Billy Binion / Reason:
The US Supreme Court revives the case of citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, who is suing Texas officials for her arrest over asking questions of police — Priscilla Villarreal's case is about whether certain reporters have more robust free speech rights than others.
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
ByteDance's publishing imprint 8th Note Press is expanding into print and plans to release 10-15 books per year, after launching as an ebook publisher in 2023 — ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.
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Allison Moore on LinkedIn and Tubefilter
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
An independent report finds Australia's Nine has systemic issues with abuse of power, discrimination, and sexual harassment; Nine pledges to make changes — Nine board commits to implementing all recommendations for a ‘reset of culture’ — Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Publicis says it paid about $500M each for influencer marketing agency Influential in July 2024 and commerce marketing company Mars United Commerce in September — French advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA raised its annual organic revenue growth guidance for 2024, even as it warned …
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Prabhakar Raghavan will leave his role overseeing Google search and ads products, to be replaced by Nick Fox; Raghavan will become Chief Technologist — Prabhakar Raghavan, the most senior Google executive overseeing its search engine and ads products, is leaving the role after a four-year tenure leading …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Prime Video announces a one-night special on US election results starting at 5pm Nov. 5, hosted by Brian Williams, in Amazon's first news video investment — - To-date, Amazon and most of its Big Tech peers have avoided producing their own real-time news coverage, which is both expensive …
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Meta:
Meta announces first results from its work with Blumhouse Productions on a pilot program seeking creative industry feedback on Meta's AI video model Movie Gen — We recently introduced Meta Movie Gen—a suite of AI models that show how you can use simple text inputs to produce custom videos and sounds …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
In an email to staff, the BBC says it has abandoned the recruitment process for its first ever royal editor, a position announced in December 2023 — Deadline revealed in August that the search had been thrown into doubt after Roya Nikkhah, The Sunday Times royal editor and CBS News contributor …
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