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Max Willens / Digiday:
Medium says its Partner Program has 200,000+ enrollees as it launches a referral program that will give participants a ~50% cut of new subscriber revenue — As the creator services arms race intensifies across digital media, Medium is hoping to stand out by sharing more of its spoils with a smaller …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Center for Public Integrity's new CEO Paul Cheung and EIC Matt DeRienzo about its plans for a membership program and diversified revenue strategy, more — “I'm not worried about the journalism. But if you don't have the business and technical infrastructure to support the journalism, then it's just not going to thrive."
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Quartz says it has 27,000 members, up 71% YoY, and is set to generate $3M+ in subscription revenue in 2021, as it refocuses subscription program on newsletters — Quartz is making changes to its three-year-old subscription program, with a new focus on its email newsletters after the publisher found …
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Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg:
Lionel Messi's exclusive interview with a Twitch influencer following his move to Paris shows how sports programming is shifting steadily to streaming platforms — - Interview after star's Paris move is a coup for the Amazon app — Clubs working with influencers to tap new generation of fans
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Interview with Facebook ad exec Graham Mudd on Facebook's plans to enhance privacy in its ads, regulation, Apple's ad tracking prompt, Google's FLoC, and more — A ‘very meaningful pivot’ is underway inside the world's largest social network — Facebook's massive business was built on its ability to track users across the internet.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times is launching seven subscriber-only opinion newsletters and making 11 other existing newsletters exclusive to subscribers beginning August 16 — The New York Times is rolling out a slew of new, subscriber-only newsletters from news and opinion writers.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney to pay Lionsgate nearly $10M to launch Star Plus in Brazil after local judge said the name sounded too similar to Lionsgate's streaming service StarzPlay — The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to Lionsgate for the right to use the “Star Plus” branding for a streaming service set to launch in Brazil.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
VerSe Innovation, parent of news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, raises $450M+ Series I, five months after raising $200M — VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Thursday it has raised over $450 million …
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The Atlantic:
Filing: The Atlantic added 280,000 subscribers in the last 12 months, for a total of 833,410, with the average value of a subscription growing 45% since H1 2019 — The Atlantic's paid readership jumped by more than 280,000 in the last 12 months, according to the latest circulation statement filed …
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Natasha Ishak / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Twitter account Writers of Color, started by a group of journalists to politely shame publications about pay transparency — As a freelancer and journalist of color, I use many sources to find jobs, but the Writers of Color account on Twitter has become one of my favorite go-tos.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Stewart Bainum, who tried to buy The Baltimore Sun from Alden, has posted job listings for a startup news outlet in Baltimore; source: plans are preliminary — Bainum's bid to buy The Baltimore Sun from Alden Global Capital fell through in the spring. Now he envisions taking on the Sun with a new nonprofit.
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James Hercher / AdExchanger:
Eyeo, creator of Adblock Plus, debuts Trestle, a demand-side platform that lets ad agencies target Eyeo users who consent to see ads, plus “lookalike audiences” — But Trestle makes it easy to plug directly into existing campaign infrastructure, Padhye said.
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