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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Reed Hastings says Netflix plans to offer cheaper, ad-supported plans and will examine what those plans will look like “over the next year or two” — Co-CEO Reed Hastings revealed the move on an earnings call after the streaming giant disclosed it lost 200,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix Will Add Advertising In “Next Year Or Two”; Co-CEO Reed Hastings Finally Concedes “Consumer Choice” Prompting Cheaper Plan
Tim Baysinger / Axios: Netflix pivots amid increased competition as growth stalls
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Will Launch Lower-Cost, Ad-Supported Streaming Plans, Reed Hastings Says
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix says it will “pull back” on spending growth. This is really the kitchen sink approach.
Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: Netflix Is Open to a Lower Price Tier — With Ads
James Hale / Tubefilter: Wait, Netflix is doing ads?
Greg Jenner / @greg_jenner: Love the way Netflix is slowly morphing into Channel 4, even while Nadine Dorries tries desperately to make Channel 4 more like Netflix https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix is exploring lower-priced, ad-supported plans after years of resisting
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Netflix CEO now says he's open to a cheaper, ad-supported plan
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: Refreshing to hear Netflix calling advertising by its name rather than ‘storytelling’ or the like
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: When stocks trade on subscriber growth, the music always stops eventually https://www.cnbc.com/...
Nev Fountain / @nevfountain: I think Netflix should be nationalised so it can compete with the BBC. https://twitter.com/...
Sean McNulty / The Wakeup: NETFLIX's 27% overnight stock drop explained, and why an Ad-supported version is on the way
@gayguycandleco: Someone please just put all of these streaming services on one platform and let it become even more outrageously priced than the cable we all left for streaming so we can just get it over with. 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Hearing Reed Hastings favorite show is “Never Have I Ever” (I'll stop this eventually)
Christopher Marc / The Playlist: Netflix Changes Course & Says They'll Launch Lower-Cost, Ad-Supported Streaming Plan
@nycsouthpaw: After many years and much disruption, the tech geniuses have hit upon the idea that a large ad-supported bundle of content with a few things you might like to watch floating in an ocean of crap, alongside some high cost premium options, is the best way to deliver tv to your home. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Yes Netflix is likely to add an ad-supported lower priced service but to be clear the no commercial feed isn't going away. Of course premium costs more. https://www.wsj.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: For years, Netflix has insisted on focusing on a single product - and keeping that product ad-free. Last year it introduced video games - and now ads are coming. https://www.vox.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: ahahahahhhhhahaha everyone comes home eventually https://twitter.com/...
Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert: Ads won't save Netflix—at least, not the advertising initiative that Reed Hastings described in the earnings call last night. Some thoughts in a thread (1/X) https://twitter.com/...
Chris Franklin / @campster: I hope they call it Qwikster 2 https://twitter.com/...
Soumyarendra Barik / The Indian Express: Explained: Netflix reports loss of 2 lakh subscribers in 3 months; why is this happening?
@thethirdhan: I know we've joked about how streaming is taking us full circle back to having 100 cable packages but like... https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: If after-hours trading holds up, Netflix will lose almost $40 billion in market cap tomorrow morning.
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: HASTINGS: “Those who have followed Netflix know that I have been against the complexity of advertising .. But as much as I am a fan of that, I am a bigger fan of consumer choice.” $NFLX https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Danielle / @danielleloucamp: Maybe they shouldn't have given all their money to Ryan Reynolds https://twitter.com/...
@murderxbryan: Netflix needs to bring in more money so that they can make more content like “is this cake” or whatever that thing is https://twitter.com/...
@centristmadness: People will probably look back on this as an inevitability but imho they simply were bad at programming. They used algorithms based on what people watched the most on their service and ended up with derivative content and HBOMax and Hulu ate their lunch. https://twitter.com/...
John Hoey / @johnnyhoey: Streaming services are slowly inventing...cable television? Remember when @SIRIUSXM was promoted as commercial free? I do. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv: Netflix executives used to go out of their way to say they wouldn't introduce advertising to their service. Now Reed Hastings says an ad-supported tier is coming in the next “year or two”
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: “It is pretty clear that it is working for Hulu, Disney is doing it, HBO did it. We don't have any doubt that it works.” Netflix embraces advertising: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: I for one am ~shocked~ that Netflix, upon seeing increased competition, subscriber slowdown, price hike churn, and trouble scaling in key international territories, is going to offer an ad supported tier. Jokes aside, a major albeit inevitable milestone for the SVOD godfather.
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Netflix plans to offer cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers
Huileng Tan / Insider: Netflix's CEO says he's open to creating a lower-priced tier with ads as the company bleeds subscribers
Matt Webb Mitovich / TVLine: Netflix May Add a Cheaper, Ad-Supported Plan in ‘Next Year or Two’
Martin Peers / The Information: Netflix's Reed Hastings Bows to Advertising Reality
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Netflix is finally ready to sell ads
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Netflix Adding Ad-Supported Option in ‘Year or Two’ According to CEO
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix to introduce ad-supported plans in a major shift
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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Netflix reports losing 200K net subscribers in Q1, vs. an estimated 2.5M net additions, and $7.87B revenue, vs. $7.95B est.; Netflix stock closes down 35%+ — Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected decline in first-quarter net subscribers as the company navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.
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Netflix Investor Relations: Fellow shareholders, — Our revenue growth has slowed considerably as our results and forecast below show.
Will Oremus / @willoremus: https://twitter.com/...
Greg Isenberg / @gregisenberg: People are missing a main point on why Netflix stock is down 30% today wiping $55b of value It isn't just extra competition of Disney, HBO or Peacock...that's just an excuse The real reason: TikTok is increasingly taking more and more of people's entertainment time
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Netflix Loses 200,000 Subscribers in Q1, Predicts Loss of 2 Million More in Q2
Dani Di Placido / Forbes: Elon Musk Dismisses Netflix As ‘Woke’ And ‘Unwatchable’
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Disney opens down ~4% and Warner Bros. Discovery opens down ~5%, after Netflix reported a drop in subscribers
Joe Flint / @jbflint: EXTRA! EXTRA! Reed all about it (see what I did there?). Hastings says Netflix considering launching cheaper ad-supported tier of the platform. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: Ads are coming to Netflix, after years of resistance. And amid subscription fatigue and high inflation, it's far from the only streaming service to embrace commercials in recent months. w/ @koblin https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / Vox: Why Netflix is suddenly losing subscribers
David Ng / Breitbart: Netflix Shares Down Nearly 40 Percent as Analysts Downgrade on Subscriber Fail
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: There is a very hard solution for Netflix's problem: make better shows. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@technology: Netflix shares are on course to lose about $40 billion in value Wednesday after the streaming giant reported its first customer decline in more than a decade https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Alyson Shontell / @ajs: Netflix thought it was bleeding users because of covid receding. Now it has identified 4 different, uncontrollable issues that could shed it millions of users in the coming months. https://fortune.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Frank Lesser / @sadmonsters: Elon Musk wanted to buy The Onion but instead decided to turn his entire Twitter feed into a joke https://twitter.com/...
Jose Montes de Oca / Newslit Daily: 📺 Netflix Loses 200,000 Customers, Its First Decline in a Decade
Alex Morash / @alexmorash: Goodbye Netflix. I won't pay for a streaming service that includes ads, full stop. I'd rather watch nothing at all. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Netflix opens down -30%. Still dropping. Tesla reports earnings tonight. Elon's figuring out financing for Twitter. It's April 20th (Or, 420) In the wise words of Matt Levine, we're all just waiting for the next can of snakes to be opened by whoever's unlucky enough to hold it.
Marco Arment / @marcoarment: Agreed. Netflix's refusal to participate in Siri/TV.app was a power move, made when they were in a position of power. Now, they have strong competition. They're at greatest risk of being forgotten... until another price hike prompts people to consider canceling. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: A Netflix buyer would have to be Apple, Amazon, Google, or another monster tech company. No media companies can afford it, even with the stock down 60% from the peak. https://twitter.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: You can't spell NETFLIX without NFT — just sayin... https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Parker Erb / Insider: 10 Things in Tech: Netflix is bleeding subscribers
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix shares open down 30%. It's now at its lowest point since December 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Netflix has lost about $180 billion in market cap since the end of 2021, which is ...objectively a lot of money. (It's four Elon Musk offers for Twitter of market value.)
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Netflix Shares Plunge 30% After Massive Subscriber Loss
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Elon Musk Blames ‘Woke Mind Virus’ for Netflix Stock Woes: It's ‘Unwatchable’
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: that or there are a zillion streaming services and it's finally catching up to Netflix. But woke mind virus. Sure. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Ah, yes, adding commercials will definitely help flip their subscription numbers! https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Longtime Netflix bull @RichLightShed: “Netflix felt vulnerable yesterday in a way that it never has before.”
Jess A. M. / @jam_etc: 1. they don't fund cool interesting unique things like they used to 2. when they do they never advertise it 3. when it fails due to this, they never renew it for any more seasons the netflix dream is kinda dying a little bit, man! where's all the amazing netflix originals!? https://twitter.com/...
Laura Dobberstein / The Register: Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: How much of Netflix losing subs driven by inflation? I agree shows have been meh and there's lots more completion...but I wonder if many are taking stock of spending and are all of a sudden like “when did Netflix become 16 bucks?”
Armando Iannucci / @aiannucci: Government wants to privatise @Channel4 so it can be more like Netflix. What can possibly go wrong? https://twitter.com/...
Ari Levy / @levynews: $NFLX has lost 62% of its value in 5 months, based on after hours trading. At its lowest since Oct. 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Ad plan feels like “a very recent decision and a last minute throw-in to these earnings, and that makes me feel like things are even worse than they appear” says @benthompson https://stratechery.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@fmanjoo: So lemme get this straight: Netflix added 500k new subs last month. Netflix lost 700k subs by pulling out of Russia. So, sure, a 200k decline, but not the end of the world. They added a half million subs!
Oliver Staley / Observer: Netflix is No Longer Chill About Password Sharing
Marco Arment / @marcoarment: I'm with @gruber on Netflix's woes: https://daringfireball.net/... Netflix used to be all we watched. Now, almost every good new show is somewhere else, and Netflix has become an endless sea of mediocre, time-wasting filler. Fix the content, and the subscribers will follow.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 3/ @YouTube has emerged as viable brand safe AVOD offering, but once launched, @netflix will win over many markets. Long-term, total pie size grows much more, faster.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 2/ Now long term, it will tap into AVOD dollars. More marketers will shift TV dollars to web. This is overall a good sign as NFLX will need ad-based offering for global domination.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 1/ Back of envelope #'s If @netflix recently raised prices by $2/mo, across 222M subs that's $444M + revs/MONTH. 200K cancelled at $12/mo x 12 mos = $30M in revenue/YEAR loss. Even est 2M future cancellations = $300M in ANNUAL losses. Yet stock down 25% https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Wendy Lee / @thewendylee: “I know it's disappointing for investors,” Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings said."Internally we're really geared up and this is like our moment to shine...we're super focused on achieving those objectives and getting back into our investors' good graces."https://www.latimes.com/ ...
@wholemarsblog: Netflix Explores a Version With Ads as Subscriber Base Shrinks So one bad quarter and you throw away all your principles, everything that differentiated your product? $NFLX https://www.wsj.com/...
Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers: goodbye password sharing, hello cheaper ad tier
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: Ads are getting a warmer reception on streaming services, execs tell @koblin and me: “It's basically game on.” “Ultimately, fantastic news for the U.S. consumer.” “Free, ad-driven TV isn't sitting at the kids' table anymore.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Netflix predicted it would add 2.5M subscribers in Q1 but actually lost 200,000 instead. This was a huge miss but even bigger is that they expect to lose another 2M in Q2. 🤯 https://variety.com/...
Joseph Cotterill / @jsphctrl: I wonder when Netflix (now losing subs for the first time in a decade) will start breaking out Africa subs to reassure its shareholders that it's growing somewhere. (Assuming there is healthy Africa growth.) https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Sam Ro / @samro: Netflix: “In the near term though, we're not growing revenue as fast as we'd like.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
@hkeskiva: Netflix $NFLX shareholder letter didn't try to bury the news. First words: “Our revenue growth has slowed considerably” Shareholder letter: https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: I had to upgrade my account last month when I was watching on a trip while someone was watching at my house. We both had Netflix subs but they were on the living room TV. Netflix counts that as two households, but should it? https://twitter.com/...
Larry Dignan / @ldignan: Netflix $NFLX loses 200K net subs in Q1 and projects a loss of 2 million subs in Q2. Inflation means people cutting budget. Netflix's partial solution to hold operating margins: “more effective monetization of multi-household sharing.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Greifeld / @kgreifeld: name names https://twitter.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: Two predictions: 1) Netflix will figure it out 2) It won't be games https://twitter.com/...
Fred Hickey / @htsfhickey: Netflix - what a disaster. NFLX already cut in 1/2 from just 5 months ago ($701 to 349), yet 61% of analysts still had “Strong Buy” or “Buy” ratings with an avg. target price of $504. After hrs. down another 25% to $262. Analysts loathe to downgrade faves https://finance.yahoo.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Worst quarter since Qwikster. The difference: In 2011, Netflix screwed up. This time the problem isn't Netflix - it's the competition. https://twitter.com/...
Darren Mooney / @darren_mooney: First time Netflix has lost subscribers in more than a decade, I believe. But perhaps more of an indicator that the public think we're out of the pandemic. https://twitter.com/...
Vicki Notaro Carlyle / @vickinotaro: I was one of them, because €22 a month feels like daylight robbery https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords https://variety.com/... via @variety
Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart: The K shaped recovery! Digital pure play companies like $NFLX getting killed and falling below pre-covid levels. Real life companies like Marriott hitting all time highs. Just like everyone predicted. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Netflix shares fall after it reveals subscriptions decline
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix earnings are out - here are the numbers
Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg:
Netflix added 1.09M subscribers in Asia Pacific, the lone bright spot, helped by the success of the South Korean series Squid Game, its biggest launch — South Korean dystopian hit ‘Squid Game’ has helped make Asia a lone bright spot for Netflix Inc., which added more than 1 million subscribers …
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Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine: What the Hell Happened to Netflix?
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix's Q1 earnings show that Disney, Paramount, and other companies that reorganized around streaming video must deal with consistent subscriber volatility
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Netflix Execs on Content, Sports, and Gaming After Big Drop in Subscribers
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Netflix subscriber decline suggests the streamer is in need of better content
Alex Sherman / CNBC: Legacy media has disrupted Netflix. The consequence may be mutually assured destruction
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Netflix Subscriber Woes Suggest Streaming Wars Have Started to Buffer
Nina Metz / @nina_metz: The game plan for Netflix (below) seems like it's a temporary solution to a long term issue which is: Subscriber numbers can't increase indefinitely (unless you diversify with something else & my brain isn't big enough to speculate what that could even be) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: After the financial crisis, the big banks were forced to undergo regular “stress tests” meant to “assess the strength and resilience” of their businesses. The streaming business is now going through a stress test of its own, via Netflix. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix estimates that its users are sharing passwords with 100M+ non-paying households globally, including 30M+ in the US and Canada, in violation of its rules
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Alex Sherman / CNBC: Netflix estimates 100 million households are sharing passwords and suggests a global crackdown is coming
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Netflix Can Cut Off Moochers Without a Password-Sharing Crackdown
Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u: First we blame content costs. Then we blame competition. Then we blame sleep. Then we blame users. “Netflix said that members who are sharing their login credentials outside the home are contributing to its slowing growth in 2022” https://variety.com/...
Karl Bode / Techdirt: Netflix Pivots From Innovator To Turf Protector As Executives Whine About Password Sharing
Highbrow Theological Shade / @wilgafney: Also, Netflix fin'ta harass you even more for traveling and logging into your own damn account. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Conway / @jtylerconway: Netflix is gonna fuck around and test us like we didn't all didn't spend our formative years using torrents???? https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Netflix is not mincing words, says a global password-sharing crackdown will be coming soon, with more than 100M accounts already sharing worldwide. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@sir_ruffy: Make noise all you want, we pay for multi so we can share the passwords with our friends and family. You don't want people sharing passwords, remove multi device view and stop charging for them. https://twitter.com/...
Blue Heron Farm / @blueheronfarmtx: Are we...Are we all sharing the same one? https://twitter.com/...
@wisdom_98: They need to give better service and try to keep their current customers. Focused on the wrong thing https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Thomas / @laurenthomas: One has to wonder if/when Peloton will navigate a similar phenomenon. For Peloton, subscription prices are going up — but does the company try tiered options for single-member accounts vs. entire households??? https://twitter.com/...
Ajit Pai / @ajitpai: “@Netflix said it estimates more than 30 million U.S. and Canadian households are using a shared password to access its content. The company said more than 100 million additional households were likely using a shared password worldwide.” @cnbc @sherman4949 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Stephanie Horbaczewski / @iamsteph: So #netflix lost 200k subs for the first time in a decade (bc of Russia) + competition= to monetize existing users better. Adding share fees for accounts they could see $1.6b in revenue @xpangler https://variety.com/... via @variety
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: 2016: “We love people sharing Netflix,” CEO Reed Hastings. “That's a positive thing, not a negative thing.” https://www.cnet.com/...
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Netflix Says Password-Sharing Solution A Year Away; Reed Hastings Vows To “Get Back Into Investors' Good Graces”
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
The reporters explaining that Taylor Lorenz's door knocking is common journalistic practice fail to grasp that the new right is opposed to any newsgathering — On Tuesday, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz published a story about a repulsive creep who uses her large online following to …
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Chad Loder / @chadloder: cw: hate speech. LibsOfTikTok is deleting her tweets, but the replies to the deleted tweets are still there. Her replies are littered with thousands of instances of targeted homophobic hate speech going back over a year. Twitter makes money from this. 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/search https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: all the info in the Libs of TikTok piece was already publicly available online. but Taylor had one thing that no one else had which made the report possible...Glenn Greenwald accidentally confirming their identity lol https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: De-anonymizing somebody online in a major outlet is a form of doxxing, period. Even if done with public records. Even if done to somebody you dislike. That doesn't mean it's not justified by circumstances, but let's not mince words when justifying it.
Andi Ortiz / The Wrap: Unmasked Libs of TikTok Author Draws Support From Conservatives, Makes Deal With Babylon Bee CEO
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Showing up at people's homes is standard journalism that more reporters should do. like half of “all the president's men” is Woodstein showing up at people's homes. https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: @TaylorLorenz I ask this in genuine good faith: How do you square this sort of reporting with your stated position that doxxing is never okay? It seems you are likely to direct no small amount of harassment toward this woman as a result of exposing her.
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Meet the Queens woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right's outrage machine (with help from Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald). She promoted January 6 and pretended to be at the Capitol that day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This is a stupid viral lie being spread by Taylor. She announced she intended to publish @libsoftiktok's name. After, @libsoftiktok provided proof Taylor went to her relatives' houses and asked me to report it to deter Taylor from stalking more people. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “[Libs of TikTok]'s account, everyone in the press should understand, is the model for what they will be replaced with.” This is the entire crux of my beat and something that newsroom leaders across the industry need to recognize. Read this full piece: https://theap.substack.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “This new right fundamentally doesn't want ‘newsgathering’ to happen. They want a chaotic information stream of unverifiable bullshit and context collapse and propaganda.” Extremely fantastic piece by @pareene https://theap.substack.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: She went door knocking and ... he just ... tweeted it out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jess Harvell / @cheaptrickrules: look i'm hardly out here cosigning everything major american newspapers do, but what we have here is a grown ass adult unfamiliar with the basic concept of “reporting,” or arguing in extremely faux-naive bad faith, and they are far from alone in this https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: Oh see this right here changes the game entirely. Libs of TikTok lost any possible claim to being just a private citizen when they trademarked their account as a “news reporter service.” Taylor Lorenz was right to write this, and I'm glad she did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Mackenzie / @melissatweets: All the defenders of Taylor Lorenz are revealing themselves, too. They're pro-shoddy journalism, intimidation, and doxxing if the subject of the story is someone who they despise and gets in the way of their leftist ideology. https://twitter.com/...
Kendall Brown / @kendallybrown: One of the teachers targeted by Libs of TikTok—and subsequently sent death threats by the account's followers—was Oklahoma teacher Tyler Wrynn. He then lost his job. The video he was targeted over was just telling LGBTQ kids rejected by their parents that they're loved. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Tobias / @scott_tobias: I think @pareene's newsletter has been consistently aces, but you should really take time to read this piece about yesterday's Libs of TikTok piece and right-wing efforts to dismantle journalism. https://theap.substack.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: Still can't believe @taylorlorenz knocked on a door and cited openly available public records to report on a giant right-wing outrage account saying LGBTQ teachers groom children and directly influencing Republican policy. Have you no decency madam https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: good pareene https://theap.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: This is the best analysis I've read of the Taylor Lorenz backlash. https://theap.substack.com/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: Speaking of good writing, @pareene has always been so sharp and savage that I enjoy him even when I actually like his targets. (Not the case here.) https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: This is an excellent piece from @pareene who encapsulates the current push of the right to invert the truth and discredit the press - (and why the pother around ‘doxxing’ is essentially anti-free press) https://theap.substack.com/...
Amanda Marcotte / @amandamarcotte: This is a wise piece. I'll add that the reason Republicans want to mire liberals in a “what is doxxing” debate is they DON'T want to debate why they love this gross Libs of TikTok account so much. https://theap.substack.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Brilliant, from @pareene — https://theap.substack.com/... The extremist right considers real journalism to be an existential threat, and is acting on that — dangerously. So “The only correct posture to take in response is to make yourself an existential threat to their movement.”
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: One of those articles where you want to screenshot & share every paragraph, by @pareene https://theap.substack.com/...
Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas: conservatives know that taylor lorenz was practicing standard journalism procedure, they're just mad that she was successful because they hate journalism! great piece by @pareene: https://theap.substack.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: “All I would like my unbiased, objective, nonpartisan reporter friends to understand is that they are debating with people that consider them the enemy not just in a partisan sense but in an existential one,” writes @pareene in a must-read for journalists https://theap.substack.com/...
Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur: Everybody - everybody - should read this, from @pareene. https://theap.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: .@pareene on the dishonest cries of “doxxing,” the rejection of journalism — of revealing, news gathering or any semblance of public accountability — and the failure of American newsrooms to adapt to bad faith, propaganda and targeted harassment https://theap.substack.com/...
Greg Otto / @gregotto: “All I would like my reporter friends to understand is that they are debating with people that consider them the enemy not just in a partisan sense but in an existential one. The only correct posture...is to make yourself an existential threat” https://theap.substack.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Joe Kahn announces his NYT leadership team; Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan will be managing editors starting June 14 — A pair of veteran Times journalists will serve in the newsroom's No. 2 position under the new executive editor, Joe Kahn. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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@cliffordlevy, @nytimespr, @davidjoachim, @lvedd, @ggreeneva, @grynbaum, @mccarthyryanj, @meslackman, @eugene_scott, @grynbaum, @kimseverson, @carloslozadawp, The Why Axis, @gregkellyusa, @shreeyasinha, @jayrosen_nyu, @nickconfessore, @ceciliakang, Columbia Journalism Review, @davidfolkenflik, @nickkristof, @kyletblaine, Media Nation, @otiadjei, @marclacey, Talking Biz News, @tomwatson and New York Times
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Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: 👏Huge applause for @carolynryan and @marclacey, who have just been promoted to NYT managing editor. Brilliant journalists, great innovators, awesome colleagues. They form an outstanding leadership team with Joe Kahn, our terrific new executive editor. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimespr: Joe Kahn, the next executive editor of the @nytimes, announces his senior leadership team: @marclacey and @carolynryan as managing editors, and @RBlumenstein, @samdolnick, @Duenes and @cliffordlevy as deputy managing editors. https://www.nytco.com/...
David S. Joachim / @davidjoachim: Worked directly for both of these outstanding journalists Perfect picks, @nycscribe 👏👏👏 https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Vedernikova Khanna / @lvedd: There are few Times people my entire family unit loves as much as @carolynryan . Right @hkhanna ?! @marclacey and love to you too! Congratulations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: I remember the NYT's ousted opinion editor avowing that the Times was a “pro-capitalism” paper. Reading this information about the paper's incoming executive editor, one gets a sense of how that attitude became so ingrained. https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: @carolynryan @marclacey Kahn also named four deputy managing editors: @RBlumenstein , @samdolnick, @Duenes and @cliffordlevy
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Legitimately great news about two legitimately fantastic people/journalists https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Slackman / @meslackman: “We are essentially and fundamentally driven by rigorous and original reporting, on-the-ground reporting. That has to be at the heart of everything that we do.” - @carolynryan @nytimes Managing Editor w/@marclacey https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: Carolyn Ryan will be the first openly gay journalist to serve as managing editor of The Times. Marc Lacey is the third Black journalist to serve in the role, after Gerald Boyd and Dean Baquet, the current executive editor. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NEW: New York Times names @carolynryan and @marclacey as managing editors. They will share the No. 2 newsroom role under Joe Kahn. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim Severson / @kimseverson: This is what a real #sisterfire looks like: @carolynryan is the first gay managing editor at the @nytimes. No “openly” queer journalist has ever risen higher. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: Nice kicker: “We do happen to get along very well,” Mr. Lacey said, although he added, to Ms. Ryan's laughter, that the two of them were fierce opponents at the Ping-Pong table. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis: When millionaires decide what's news
Greg Kelly / @gregkellyusa: Who the hell POSES like this? Get off the floor!!! This is the new “boss” of the NYT? I think that “newspaper” is about to get even WEIRDER. https://twitter.com/...
Shreeya Sinha / @shreeyasinha: Big day for my former boss and mentor of a decade, @marclacey who was named Managing Editor of NYT, along with @carolynryan. Such great stewards of our values, mission and dedication to the people that uphold them https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Kyle Pope, editor of @CJR Columbia Journalism Review, said the appointment of Joe Kahn as next editor of the New York Times sent a clear signal that it has “no plans to rethink its approach.” I agree with that. “We are not the opposition” sums it up. https://www.cjr.org/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: New masthead just dropped. Congrats to @carolynryan, @marclacey, and everyone else — we are lucky to have this team. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: Lots of changes, but not this: “We are essentially and fundamentally driven by rigorous and original reporting, on-the-ground reporting. That has to be at the heart of everything that we do” @carolynryan, who along w @marclacey named new managing editors https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Kahn names strong team to help lead NYT- elevates @marclacey @carolynryan as managing editors (the ping pong thing is real) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: The @nytimes announces two managing editors who will work with newly appointed executive editor Joe Kahn in running the Times: Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan, both veteran Times people with strong support in the newsroom. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kyle Blaine / @kyletblaine: “Ms. Ryan will be the first openly gay journalist to serve as managing editor of The Times.” 🏳️🌈 🙌 https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Joe Kahn seems unlikely to fix The New York Times' broken political coverage
Michael Oti Adjei / @otiadjei: Reading about the key characters behind the growth of the New York Times including the departing Dean Baquet and incoming Joe Kahn was such an eye opener. So much experience. No easy path to top media executive roles.
Marc Lacey / @marclacey: “We don't know where the political zeitgeist will move over time,” Mr. Kahn said in an interview. “Rather than chase that, we want to commit and recommit to being independent.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: New York Times names Kahn executive editor
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: Sadly, @nycscribe thinks the threat to liberal U.S. democracy is just the temporary “political zeitgeist.” Respectfully, how can readers trust a journalist who arrives at this wildly erroneous conclusion? https://www.cjr.org/...
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Joe Kahn, whose focus on China shaped his career, during which he won two Pulitzers and helped turn The New York Times into a 24-hour operation
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New York Magazine, Politico, Washington Post, @byronyork, @shawnmccreesh, Columbia Journalism Review, @grynbaum, @glennbeck, @ashleyfeinberg, @christineemba, American Press Institute, @clockwerks, @froomkin, @feliciasonmez, @brianstelter, @alexnpress, @maxwelltani, @gillianwong, @jonathanchait, @dbauder, @grynbaum, @jtanews, @edokeefe, @otiadjei, @harrymccracken, @nickkristof, @jayrosen_nyu, @katekelly, Today in Tabs, Gawker, Nieman Lab, WWD, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine: The Inside Man — Joe Kahn is the new, old-school editor of the Times. But who is he?
Byron York / @byronyork: The new executive editor of the New York Times poses for a profile in @NYMag: https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shawn McCreesh / @shawnmccreesh: The Kingdom and the Kahn — my profile of the new top dog at the Times. https://nymag.com/...
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review: Doubling down at the Times — Dean Baquet's departure as executive editor of The New York Times …
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: My profile of Joe Kahn: a decorated journalist who saw the potential of China before others, whose affluent childhood was disrupted by tragedy, and who is now tasked with leading The New York Times amid the challenges of a polarized era. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glenn Beck / @glennbeck: This is THE CREEPIEST photo I have seen. It looks like a photo I would use to explain if your boss, teacher or frankly anyone is sitting like this when you walk in, turn around and walk out - nothing good can happen when it begins like this. @nytimes https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: if someone doesn't show me the entire reel for this photoshoot i'm going to die https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christine Emba / @christineemba: this picture has me LOSING IT https://twitter.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 20, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Most Americans …
Trei Brundrett / @clockwerks: The whole bit in here about their Live desk product, Kahn's role in it, and that they believe it makes NYT competitive with linear cable like CNN is fascinating stuff. “Kahn told me he believes this is where the future of the Times lies.” quite a statement. live stories are big https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Everything about these two paragraphs bodes very ill for progress at the NYT: https://nymag.com/... Sounds so much like Baquet. See: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: One might think it's impossible to write a 6,000-plus-word story without quoting a single woman, but ... one would be wrong! https://nymag.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “In the news business, three is usually regarded as the minimum number to declare a trend, and it is now official. We are moving away from the age of charismatic editors at America's top news organizations,” @harrispolitico writes https://www.politico.com/...
Alex Press / @alexnpress: lotta people noticing how weird this photo is but I can't get past this guy's middle initial being “F” but without any name attached, his parents just wanted his initials to be JFK. rich Boston people are so scary https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: having a nice, normal sit with the newspaper i now run https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@gillianwong: Kahn's experience with Chinese officials, well versed in propaganda and deception, was newly relevant. “I would not have thought that being a foreign correspondent in China would be good preparation to be executive editor of The New York Times in 2022.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: If you care about the New York Times, you should read every single word of this @ShawnMcCreesh profile of its new editor, a terrific character study with plenty of Kremlinology https://nymag.com/...
David Bauder / @dbauder: As is tradition, Times stays inside with its new executive editors. https://apnews.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Here's Joe Kahn as an undergrad in 1986. Drawing commissioned by The Harvard Crimson. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jtanews: The New York Times named Joseph Kahn its next executive editor, the fifth Jewish editor in the position since its creation in 1964. https://www.jta.org/...
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: “I would not have thought that being a foreign correspondent in China would be good preparation to be executive editor of The New York Times in 2022.” - @nycscribe, on how his career prepared him to lead the @nytimes. (By @grynbaum) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Oti Adjei / @otiadjei: Its the educational background of these top media executives for me https://www.nytimes.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: Now I want a publication I work for to publish a glowing profile of me. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: @nytimes @deanbaquet An excellent profile of the NY Times's new executive editor, Joe Kahn, and how he worked his way up in journalism: https://www.nytimes.com/... by @grynbaum
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Dean Baquet turned 65 a while ago, and today The New York Times has a new editor: Joe Kahn. He rose in a very traditional way. Here's the Times article about their new boss: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kate Kelly / @katekelly: Love this: “At one point, Harvard's president, Derek Bok, got so fed up with Mr. Kahn's dogged reporting that he barred university officials from speaking to The Crimson.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: KAHN HEIR — White smoke issued from the chimney of the New York Times this morning …
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker: New New York Times Editor Joe Kahn Was a Big Loser in College
Kathryn Hopkins / WWD: Joseph Kahn Takes the Helm at The New York Times
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: New York Times Appoints Joseph Kahn Executive Editor
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Six ex-staffers of Arsenal Media, co-founded by Benny Johnson to make GOP clients' content go viral, describe bullying, toxic HR practices, and late payments — In the breathless world of conservative online politics, Arsenal Media is here to help you go viral.
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Kipp Jones / Mediaite: Benny Johnson Accused of Abusing and Screaming at Employees of Right Wing Influencer Company
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Benny Johnson sounds like a great guy to work for. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: Wow I'm shocked that former @semaforben hire Benny Johnson fucked something up again This firm made Republicans go viral — now it's falling apart https://www.theverge.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: you hate to see it https://twitter.com/...
Max Steele / @maxasteele: “Our co-founder and chief creative officer who we built our pitch deck around? Yeah he doesn't have anything to do with us.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Mack / @davidmackau: sounds like somebody needs a relaxing vacation at sea! https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Zakarin / @jordanzakarin: Right-wing media is America's one and only true welfare state. If you are born to wealthy parents & love racism, you can fail constantly, get fired regularly, and become a pariah, yet still continue to receive funding from billionaires for your scams. https://www.theverge.com/...
Tim Murphy / @timothypmurphy: anyway, from the “politics-as-content-creation” front: https://www.theverge.com/...
Joe / @joeperticone: if you hire benny johnson for anything you will inevitably become the subject of an article like this. This is like 10th one in as many years https://www.theverge.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: I got my hands on Arsenal's pitch deck to clients. The firm promises huge viral returns on videos and social content through it use of a “team of conservative influencers” with “a combined follower count of millions.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: One former worker told me Johnson can be “very abusive, very toxic, screaming at people, like using profanity, vulgarity, making women cry... I hadn't been screamed at like that since I was probably seven years old on the playground.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: A spokesperson for Johnson did not deny claims that he yelled at a female staffer, demanding that she apologize to his entire family. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: NEW: Arsenal Media Group, brainchild of Benny Johnson, is falling apart. As midterms heat up, staffers are fleeing the GOP marketing firm famous for its Kim Klacik ad due to late payments and “verbal abuse” from Johnson. https://www.theverge.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Here's @kellymakena on the internal culture of Arsenal Media, one of the firms which helps conservative culture-war candidates go viral with the help of its influencer network. Screaming, not paying people... all bad jobs are the same in the end https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Many talk shows are struggling to adapt to streaming, as such shows depend on current events and streamers want programming that appeals to users globally — Streaming services have already proved that they can produce Oscar-winning movies, Emmy-worthy dramatic series and high-profile live sports.
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Mediaite, Breitbart, @mqsullivan, @jerrydunleavy, @samhaselby, @jamesoliphant, @jessesingal, @ingrahamangle, @johnjedwards3, @joetoplyn, @lucas_shaw, @alexthomp, @gerryfsmith, @tomgara, The Wrap, CNN, Numlock News and Newser
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Candice Ortiz / Mediaite: Jon Stewart Responds to ‘Creepy Weirdo’ Breitbart Writer Over Report His Apple TV Show Flopped: ‘They Upped Our Episode Order!!’
Michael Quinn Sullivan / @mqsullivan: Whether it is CNN+ or “The Problem with Jon Stewart” - compared to the success of those like Joe Rogan and the Daily Wire - the streaming services are finding there isn't a paying audience for bloviating leftwing hacks. https://www.bloombergquint.com/ ...
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: the most interesting thing Jon Stewart has said probably in years was his late night show rant last summer about “the Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab” and I was able to get that for free, so yeah this isn't surprising. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Haselby / @samhaselby: Stewart's new show is struggling. But the Comedy Central liberalism that he represented, in which the main problem in the US is right-wing news and pundits, colonized a generation of liberal minds and endures. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
James Oliphant / @jamesoliphant: It's not just our politics that create alternative factual universes, it's our corporate culture. Read the quote from Apple in this story. It doesn't engage in the premise of the story at all or acknowledge the issues at play. Just a smiley-face sticker. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: I wasn't interested until I saw him argue that There's A Problem With White People, which is the sort of truly interesting, exciting, and most of all novel content I'll absolutely purchase a subscription to access https://twitter.com/...
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: A towering talent nonetheless: Jon Stewart's Struggles Add to List of Streaming Talk Show Flops https://www.bloombergquint.com/ ... via @BloombergQuint
John J. Edwards III / @johnjedwards3: If you're like me, you've been meaning to check out Jon Stewart's Apple TV+ show but haven't gotten around to it. @gerryfsmith looks at the host's predicament https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @business
Joe Toplyn / @joetoplyn: This Bloomberg article discusses why Jon Stewart's talk show on Apple TV+ is doing so poorly. I point out one factor: A late-night-style show on a streaming service can't be very topical. https://www.bloombergquint.com/ ...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Jon Stewart joins a long line of famous comedians who have struggled in their transition to streaming. This @gerryfsmith piece is one of the most read stories on @TheTerminal today. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: This is probably a combo of Stewart becoming more earnest/less funny and the environment changing to reward more partisan dunking https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Streaming services have struggled to find a hit talk show. Jon Stewart offers the latest example. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: “Stewart initially released episodes on Apple every two weeks. Then he took four months off” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ Has a Problem — With Ratings
Brian Stelter / CNN: Investors await Netflix earnings while scrutinizing the streaming business model
Walter Hickey / Numlock News: Numlock News: April 19, 2022 • Beanstalk, Nukes, Frogs
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: Jon Stewart's New Talk Show Is Reportedly a ‘Flop’
Betsy Klein / CNN:
WHCA says Joe Biden will attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 30, the first time a sitting president has attended since 2016 — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 30, the White House Correspondents' Association announced Wednesday.
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Politico, @thebuffalonews, Insider, New York Post, @timfullerton, @kevinliptakcnn, @juliewestfall and @whca
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@thebuffalonews: It's the first time a sitting president will be at the event since Barack Obama in 2016. https://buffalonews.com/...
Brent D. Griffiths / Insider: Biden will attend the White House correspondents dinner, breaking with Trump's repeated snubs of the event
Callie Patteson / New York Post: Bidens to attend White House Correspondents' Dinner after Trump absence
Tim Fullerton / @timfullerton: One good thing Trump did was not go to this. Was hoping that would be the end of it. Guess not. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Liptak / @kevinliptakcnn: Biden resuming the tradition (eschewed by Trump) of attending yearly White House Correspondents Dinner https://twitter.com/...
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram plans to tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more, recommending accounts that aggregate and reshare other users' content less — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that the company is going to tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more on its platform.
Discussion:
@mosseri, The Verge, Engadget, @mikeisaac, @qwongsj, @mosseri and @tysonhutchins_, more at Techmeme »
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Adam Mosseri / @mosseri: 📣 New Features 📣 We've added new ways to tag and improved ranking: - Product Tags - Enhanced Tags - Ranking for originality Creators are so important to the future of Instagram, and we want to make sure that they are successful and get all the credit they deserve. https://twitter.com/...
David Pierce / The Verge: Instagram is begging you to stop reposting TikToks to Reels
@mikeisaac: @mosseri @MattNavarra interesting you say this. i follow a lot of food video people and have started seeing a lot more aggregators swipe their stuff and sorta push down the OG creators, which is probably aggravating to them curious how this'll work. guessing creators will need to put out more stuff
Queenie Wong / @qwongsj: Instagram says it's going to try to “value original content more” through a ranking change. I asked how does IG know who is the original creator of a piece of content? Head of IG gives more details in this answer. 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Adam Mosseri / @mosseri: @siruihua ... It would be hard. If the account is an aggregator, we'll more likely be able to detect that it's not original. If it's someone pretending to be that original creator, which is less likely but could happen, it'll be hard for us to know.
Tyson Hutchins / @tysonhutchins_: Instagram says it will begin to reward originality over aggregators. I do miss the days when I saw something in my feed besides reposted viral videos & sports highlights. Will be interested to see how easy it'll be for us to notice the change. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
TiVo study finds 28% of US viewers resubscribed to pay TV after cutting the cord; 29% say it is because it is the best way to watch sports and major live events — Cutting the cord can be complicated. That's why we here at The Streamable try to make it as simple as possible for you.
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
FactSet estimates for Q1 2022 ad revenue: analysts expect Google to grow 23% YoY to $55.1B, Meta to grow 8% YoY to ~$27.5B, and Twitter to grow 25% YoY to $1.1B — Google's search business expected to stay resilient while social platforms grapple with challenges — Your browser does not support the audio tag.
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Meg Graham / @megancgraham: Analysts expect combined ad rev from GOOG/FB/AMZN/TWTR/Snap/Pins to grow 19% yoy compared w/ 40% in Q1 '21 - on impacts from inflation/Ukraine/supply chain/IDFA 📍$GOOG ad revenue expected to rise 23% yoy to $55.1B 📍$FB projected to rise 8% to ~$27.5B https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shraddha Chakradhar / Nieman Lab:
Study of 130K articles published by 31 papers acquired by firms like Alden Capital finds a significant decrease in the volume of local content post-acquisition — From Alden Global Capital to Sinclair Media, tales of corporate media takeovers of local news outlets — and their chilling effects — are everywhere.
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