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Sources: the value of Spotify's deal with Joe Rogan, which covers three and a half years, was at least $200M, twice the $100M that reports suggested at the time — The deal that brought his podcast to Spotify is said to be worth over $200 million, more than was previously known.
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast says it now has 360M monthly average readers and turned a profit in 2021 for the first time in years; source: it recorded ~$2B in revenue last year — Publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker generated nearly $2 billion in revenue last year
Knight Foundation:
In December 2021, 33% of Americans said they pay a “great deal” of attention to national news, down from 54% in November 2020 — Fewer Americans are paying attention to national news now than at any time since early 2018. In December 2021, a third of Americans (33%) said they pay …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN+ will air a six-part documentary on the Murdochs, based on an NYT Magazine article and co-produced by CNN, NYT, and Left/Right, in the weeks to come — The Murdochs, the media-mogul family that controls Fox News Channel, are about to be the subject of a new documentary series that will be distributed by one of their main rivals.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brian Stelter will host a daily version of his Reliable Sources show for CNN+, the subscription streaming service to launch this spring — CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter will host a daily version of Reliable Sources for CNN+, the upcoming subscription service set to debut this spring.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's acquisitions of Podsights and Chartable prepare it to compete better with YouTube, offering programmatic ads and robust analytics to creators — Why the company went on a shopping spree — This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo:
An in-depth look at Privacy Sandbox for Android: a two-year transition with ad industry input, a marked change from Apple's ATT, which had little external input — plans to bring a Privacy Sandbox effort to Android. Google's — original Privacy Sandbox
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Hadeel Ibrahim / CBC News:
Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper company, buys BNI, which publishes three daily newspapers and six weeklies in New Brunswick — Brunswick News Inc. is being sold for $7.5M in cash and $8.6M in variable voting shares of Postmedia — Brunswick News Inc., which publishes three daily newspapers …
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Postmedia and @craigsilverman
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Universal Music Group partners with NFT marketplace Curio to develop and sell NFT collectibles for its record labels and artists starting in March — Universal Music Group has struck a partnership with NFT platform Curio to develop non-fungible token (NFT) collections for its record labels and artists, the companies said on Thursday.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Many outlets today are poorly differentiated ideologically and seem to be replicating the NYT opinion section, lacking the contrarian takes Slate was known for — We've lost a lot as every publication has become the same — Katie Robertson of the New York Times recently wrote …
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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Digital Content Next, representing publishers including NYT, News Corp, AP, and more, urges the Senate Judiciary Committee to back two bills to rein in Big Tech — A group representing publishers such as News Corp and National Public Radio wrote to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee …
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AppleInsider, New York Post, @the_iap, @dcnorg, @jeffjarvis, @wexler, @appfairness, @jason_kint, @jason_kint and MacDailyNews
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post:
Tencent makes a ~$248M deal with Beijing Jetsen Technology, China's largest holder of film and TV licenses, for streaming rights to 6K+ films and TV series — A deal with China's largest film copyright holder gives Tencent streaming rights to thousands of films and television shows …
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