Mediagazer: Liberty Media plans to spin off most assets, besides F1 racing, into publicly traded company Liberty Live, and says CEO Greg Maffei will step down by 2024's end (CNBC)

10:50 AM ET, November 13, 2024

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries — As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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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Yahoo Finance hires Anthony Galloway as head of content; he was previously the WSJ's chief content officer of editorial video, audio, and voice programming — Anthony Galloway has been hired as head of content for Yahoo Finance. — He will be responsible for leading programming …

CNBC:

Liberty Media plans to spin off most assets, besides F1 racing, into publicly traded company Liberty Live, and says CEO Greg Maffei will step down by 2024's end — Liberty Media announced Wednesday it's spinning off most assets besides Formula One auto racing into a separate publicly traded company …

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Callie Holtermann / New York Times:

Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 14.7M users in total — With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.

John Koblin / New York Times:

Antenna: in Q2, 51.4M people bought at least one niche streaming service subscription, up from 24.5M in Q2 2022, as users flock to Hallmark+, BritBox, and more — Executives from the Hallmark Channel made a curious decision this fall: They started a new streaming service.

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K.J. Yossman / Variety:

The UK's Barb: Netflix grew its ad tier from 2.78M homes in Q2 to 3.8M homes in Q3 and Disney+ from 820K homes to 1.2M homes over the same period — It looks like the industry pivot back towards ads is paying off for streaming platformers, at least in the U.K.

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