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11:15 AM ET, July 30, 2025

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Ofcom: YouTube is the second most-watched TV service in the UK, behind the BBC and ahead of ITV; one in five Gen Alpha viewers turn to YouTube first on their TV  —  Ofcom study finds scheduled TV is ‘increasingly alien’ to younger viewers  —  Younger people now turn on YouTube above …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup  —  YouTube on Tuesday announced it's beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restrictions that limited ad revenue  —  Videos that use the F-word in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full ad revenue.
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Study by SEO platform Authoritas: when Google AI Overviews is present, publishers witness a drop of 47.5% in clickthrough rate on desktop, and 37.7% on mobile  —  New research on AI Overviews has been submitted as part of a legal complaint on its impacts.  —  Publishers are seeing …
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Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”  —  The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.”
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 11% to 696M, subscribers up 12% to 276M, and an €86M net loss; SPOT closes down 11.6% after missed est.  —  The audio streaming service added more listeners than it had forecast, but reported a net loss for the second quarter
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Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has “been moving too slowly”; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
A coalition of European writers, publishers, and others warns that Europe's AI Act is not properly protecting copyrights and is selling out the creative sector  —  Europe's writers, actors, musicians and producers accuse the EU of selling out creative industries in favor of GenAI giants and demand urgent reforms to safeguard IP rights.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Daily Mail consolidates its digital platforms under the name Daily Mail and renames its digital subscription package, which has 325K subscribers, DailyMail+  —  The Daily Mail has set a target of reaching one million digital subscribers by October 2028 as it undergoes a consolidation of its global branding.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Kyiv Independent crosses 20,000 paying members, up from 17,500 in May, with ~70% of its revenue coming from readers, and has no plans to add a paywall  —  Horizontal connections and membership community have kept subscriber churn for the English-language publication under 2%.
Amy Hollyfield / Dallas Morning News:
DallasNews Corporation board rejects Alden-owned MediaNews's bid and accepts an improved merger deal from Hearst, which raised its offer from $14 to $15/share  —  The board also voted to implement a shareholder rights plan to hold off Alden.  —  DallasNews Corporation announced Monday …
Rocket Drew / The Information:
Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios  —  Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway's AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters.
 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia says it will include YouTube in its ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the platform
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Bollywood star Aamir Khan's hit Sitaare Zameen Par will be released exclusively on YouTube for digital rental on August 1, sidestepping traditional streamers
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Sean Burch / The Wrap:
The Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler is leaving the paper after over 27 years, having taken a buyout, and is “not sure” if his role will be replaced
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Eros and filmmaker Aanand L. Rai clash over plans to re-release the Tamil-language version of 2013 Indian film Raanjhanaa with an AI-enabled alternative ending
 

 
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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

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”

A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities
 
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