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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; NFLX jumps 7%+ — LOS ANGELES — Netflix posted third-quarter earnings Thursday that beat on the top and bottom lines as its advertising business continued to grow.
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Netflix gained 5.1M new subscribers in Q3, vs. 4M est., and says more than 50% of signups were for its ad-supported tier in countries where it was available — Netflix (NFLX.O) picked up 5.1 million streaming subscribers in the third quarter, topping Wall Street estimates by more than 1 million …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix forecasts 2025 revenue of $43B-$44B, which would be 11%-13% higher than its 2024 guidance, and targets a 2025 operating margin of 28% vs. 27% in 2024 — Netflix is expecting to keep growing revenue at double-digit percentages in 2025. — In reporting Q3 2024 results that beat analyst forecasts …
CNN:
A federal judge issues a restraining order against Florida's surgeon general for threatening TV stations with criminal charges for airing a pro-abortion ad — New York CNN — — “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it's the First Amendment, stupid.”
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Bloomberg launches a Weekend Edition to reduce churn; CPO Julia Beizer says the publisher has 740K subscribers, of which about 40% are from outside the US — The new editorial product will focus on the intersection of finance and culture, boosting weekend readership
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Kirsten Eddy / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 37% of Republicans and 38% of Democrats trust information from social media; 40% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats trust national news organizations — Republicans are now nearly as likely to trust the information that comes from social media sites as they are to trust information …
Jennifer Smith / CommonWealth Beacon:
A look at Melrose Update Robocast, a podcast generated using Google's NotebookLM and public documents and born of frustration with a Massachusetts news desert — Robocast creator calls it ‘an act of desperation’ with decline in local news — Stay in the know. — A NEW LOCAL PODCAST covering Melrose debuted this month.
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
LinkedIn woos publishers, testing a “News Banner” on its mobile app feed and a video ad program that sources say will earn Bloomberg and WSJ $2M+ each in 2024 — As Facebook owner Meta Platforms has backed away from news, Microsoft's LinkedIn has leaned into it.
Marah Eakin / Wired:
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short — Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Jon Steinberg, CEO of UK magazine publisher Future, announces plans to step down in 2025 after a 12-month notice period; Steinberg joined in April 2023 — Shares in magazine publisher Future plc dropped more than 10% on Friday morning after the company announced the departure …
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Hobbyists post the code for Redbox kiosk software online, and tinkerers have been probing how it works, sometimes repurposing abandoned machines to run Doom — The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company's bankruptcy …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A year after its launch, The Guardian's European edition generates 15% of the company's pageviews, and one-time donations from European readers increased by 45% — After the launch of Guardian Europe, one-time donations from European readers increased by 45%.
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