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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 — Spotify is raising subscription prices in the UK for the second time in 18 months. The company is also increasing the price of its Premium plans in Switzerland.
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Variety, The Independent, Sky News and Digital Music News
David Folkenflik / NPR:
In the past two weeks, at least three WaPo editorials have taken on matters in which Jeff Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake — A year ago, in explaining why he had blocked the publication of an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris …
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Adobe Newsroom:
A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more — - 76 percent of creators say creative generative AI has helped grow their business and personal brand
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Business Wire, Engadget and Investor's Business Daily, more at Techmeme »
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon
Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon
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The Decoder, PCWorld, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, PetaPixel, Adobe Newsroom, Unite.AI, Ken Yeung, 9to5Google, Variety, Thurrott, Business Wire, Digital Trends and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN+ in 2022 — CNN is ushering in a new era today with the launch of its All Access subscription streaming tier.
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CNN, Axios, TheDesk.net, New Jersey Online, @bristei, The Streamable, @cnnpr, Mediaite, Business Insider, Cord Cutters News, @boblevine.us, @mlcalderone, @karlbode.com, Broadband TV News, Variety, CNET, The Hollywood Reporter, Advanced Television, CNN, @erichaywood.bsky.social, The Wrap and @hayekmg
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking its total funding to $968M — The start-up is among the biggest names in a fast-growing part of e-commerce that is effectively a kind of QVC for the TikTok era.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Steven.com, owned by Steven Bartlett, host of popular UK podcast Diary of a CEO, raised a “major eight-figure investment” at a $425M valuation — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email — Social media entrepreneur-turned-podcaster Steven Bartlett …
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Tubefilter, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Steven Bartlett, Daily Mail and EU-Startups
American Journalism Project:
The American Journalism Project invests $3.5M into three nonprofit local news outlets: Cardinal News in Virginia, Honolulu Civil Beat, and the Nashville Banner — The American Journalism Project today announced $3.5 million in new support for three nonprofit local news organizations …
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Honolulu Civil Beat on LinkedIn and Nashville Banner
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Immediate Media's Olive magazine relaunches as a 148-page “bookazine”, with eight issues per year for £8.99 each, as it broadens its editorial focus beyond food — Newsstand price rises to £8.99 as Olive broadens editorial focus away from food.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube TV signs a distribution deal with Bloomberg Media, adding Bloomberg TV+, a live 24-hour news channel, and Bloomberg Originals — Google's YouTube TV is adding two channels from Bloomberg Media to its lineup, one with live 24-hour news and the other with the media company's original series and documentaries.
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MediaPost, The Wrap, @bsdtectr.bsky.social, Christine C. Cook on LinkedIn and VICE
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Charlie Jablonski, an NBC Sports executive who won 12 sports Emmy Awards for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, died on October 25 at age 69 — The NBC Sports exec earned 20 Emmy nominations and 12 trophies for his engineering and technology work on the Olympics, starting with the 1988 Games in Seoul.
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TV Tech, Sports Video Group, Deadline, The US Sun, Awful Announcing, TVNewsCheck and UPI
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its Doctor Who partnership with Disney, which gave Disney+ global streaming rights, ended after two years and it is “fully committed to Doctor Who” — It's been rumored for months and now it has become reality. … The BBC confirmed that the show will continue …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkey arrests TELE1 chief editor Merdan Yanardağ as part of an “espionage” investigation and seizes control of TELE1, which stopped broadcasting on October 24 — Turkish authorities should release TELE1 chief editor Merdan Yanardağ and withdraw the order to assign …
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