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The Pentagon unveils a “new media” press corps, largely from right-wing outlets like Gateway Pundit, with 60+ people signing its new restrictive press policy — A new crop of conservative media and influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data — In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google's search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., and an operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 10%+ — - Shares of Netflix fell after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss. … Shares of Netflix fell around 7% …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters says the company is “now on track to more than double ad revenue this year” and is currently using AI to test new ad formats
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Órla Ryan / The Irish Times:
Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race — Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times
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Diana Pearl / The Business of Fashion:
ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024 — The fast-growing creator monetisation business raised $70 million in a funding round that included heavyweight Silicon Valley investors …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B+ into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY — SkyShowtime recently celebrated its third anniversary following its initial launch in 20 markets, including Spain and Poland, in September 2022.
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Adam Leventhal / The Athletic:
UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members — UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world's largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Taboola and Paramount Skydance launch a CTV product called Performance Multiplier, aiming to extend the reach of Paramount's small and medium-sized ad partners — Taboola, the publicly traded ad tech giant, is partnering with Paramount Skydance to create a new product, called …
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible — Mobile users can automatically pause their Shorts feeds after watching for a set duration.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1 — The Fox broadcast network will air 69 matches, compared to 34 in 2022, with the remaining 35 running on FS1. — Fox is doubling down on the FIFA World Cup.
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Ferdinand Knapp / Politico:
The EU Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize, its top human rights award, to two imprisoned journalists: Belarus' Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia's Mzia Amaglobeli — Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli named as Sakharov Prize winners. — The European Parliament on Wednesday awarded …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the economics of NBCU's NBA deal; sources say losses are projected at $500M to $1.4B per year at first and NBCU has averaged ~$130K per 30-second ad — Some senior NBCUniversal entertainment executives and Wall Street analysts have questioned the price and all that has to go right for the deal to be a success
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