Mediagazer: YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts (Emma Roth/The Verge)

3:15 AM ET, November 13, 2024

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Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video — Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.

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President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has chosen Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense.

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Media executives say that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk was likely to gain an influential Trump administration role — Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns — Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts — YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson — Disney board members are considering outsiders including the CEO of videogame company Electronic Arts — Disney is exploring fresh candidates …

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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to €3.99B, vs. €4.02B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, and forecasts Q4 profit and MAUs above est.; SPOT jumps 8%+ after hours — Audio-streaming giant Spotify (SPOT.N) forecast fourth-quarter profit above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday …

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David Satin / The Streamable:

EchoStar reports a Q3 net loss of $142M on revenue of $3.89B, with Sling TV adding 145K customers but satellite service Dish losing 188K; SATS falls 12.9% — DISH continued to lose linear satellite subscribers, but the losses were fewer than the year-ago quarter.

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Bloomberg:

DirecTV plans to terminate its planned acquisition of Dish by midnight on November 22, 2024, if bondholders don't agree to a debt exchange — - Warning follows rejection by Dish bondholders of improved bid … “A successful exchange was a condition for acquiring the Dish video business …

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with ads on its platform in the US starting this week; ads will be formatted as “sponsored follow-up questions” — AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it'll begin experimenting with ads on its platform starting this week.

Max Tani / Semafor:

Email: some of Al Jazeera's Gaza reporters say they will no longer broadcast until the network pays what they say are months of missing expense reimbursements — The Scoop — Some of Al Jazeera's correspondents covering the war in Gaza are protesting what they believe is months of mistreatment …

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Adweek:

Google cracks down on affiliate SEO businesses run by third parties, leading to much lower search visibility for those businesses at Time, WSJ, CNN, and others — The steep drops in search visibility could mean the end to outsourcing affiliate operations — The search visibility of the Forbes …

Discussion: Mark Stenberg on LinkedIn and @simondowens@threads.net

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:

Mario Gabelli, largest holder of nonvoting Paramount shares, asks the FCC to delay transferring broadcast licenses to Skydance until he decides whether to sue — The FCC filing follows legal maneuvering from Mario Gabelli, the largest holder of nonvoting shares, seeking access to Paramount's books.

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