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8:20 AM ET, June 18, 2025

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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Deezer says AI-made music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the music streaming platform, but up to 70% of those streams are fraudulent  —  According to the French streaming platform's analysis, fraudsters use bots to listen to AI music and take the royalties
Discussion: Music Ally
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the media company Breaking and Entering, whose “60 Seconds of Advertising News” videos have become vital morning viewing for ad industry executives  —  Breaking and Entering has expanded from a podcast for young creatives to a daily must-watch news roundup for ad leaders
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC appoints Director of Unscripted Kate Phillips as Chief Content Officer, replacing Charlotte Moore, who announced her exit in February  —  Director General Tim Davie said Phillips' “passion for delivering world-class content to our all audiences shines through in everything she does.”
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Warner Bros. Games restructures its operations into teams based on its four key franchises: Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and the DC Universe  —  Per WBD, three current studio heads have been promoted to Senior Vice President as part of the restructure: Warner Bros Games …
Financial Times:
Netflix signs a landmark deal with French network TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five channels, showing live sports and more  —  Deal will be closely watched by broadcasters, who are losing millions of viewers to streaming giants  —  Daniel Thomas and Hannah Murphy in Cannes
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
How Walmart plans to leverage its $2.3B Vizio acquisition to push shoppable TV experiences; Walmart's ad business had just $4.4B of sales in FY 2025  —  Walmart Inc. is working toward a future where consumers can buy items while watching their television shows, a strategy retailers have long tried to implement as a way to boost sales.
Discussion: Elle and PYMNTS.com
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members  —  The Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the FCC, a move that gives Donald Trump and Republicans a 2-1 majority on the commission.
CNN:
Mario Guevara, an El Salvador-born journalist who covers immigration raids, may face deportation after his arrest while covering No Kings protests in Atlanta  —  A Salvadoran journalist who built a big social media following by documenting immigration raids may be facing deportation.
 
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Candle Media co-CEO Kevin Mayer says Candle plans to sell or IPO its individual brands rather than the overall company, marking a shift from its original plan
Discussion: Semafor
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Max, soon to be called HBO Max, says it is working on an AI tool that will identify “standout” scenes from its shows and movies to play as video previews
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Tubi says it crossed 100M monthly users in May and accounted for 1B hours of total TV viewership time; Nielsen: Tubi accounted for 2.2% of total TV viewership
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix says Netflix House, its in-person experience offering interactive activities, will open in Philadelphia and Dallas in late 2025 and in Las Vegas in 2027
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube announces “open call”, a new feature to let brands broadly request sponsored content from creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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