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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin says revenue grew 35% YoY in H1 2022 and the outlet has 360,000+ “active readers”, including its free newsletters audience — - The Information is one of the rare digital-media outlets that have remained independent.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Over 500 US-based Condé Nast workers at 11 publications win union recognition, under the NewsGuild of New York; magazines include Vanity Fair, Allure, and Vogue — Condé Nast employees won union recognition Friday from their company, making workers at iconic …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
California's budget includes $25M for a local news fellowship, starting in May 2023, with stipends distributed via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism — The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC …
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Kantar: political campaigns are expected to spend $1.2B on streaming ads in the 2022 US midterms as streaming increasingly reaches a big share of the electorate — The week after Labor Day traditionally marks the beginning of the fall election season, with campaigns rushing to get their message …
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A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Charter's Spectrum Networks launches Spectrum News CTV, a TV app with original content and news from its 30+ local TV news outlets, free to Spectrum customers — Spectrum Networks today announced the launch of a Spectrum News CTV app for Roku and Apple TV, a compliment to the Spectrum News mobile app the company launched in 2020.
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Charter, @tvgrimreaper, Light Reading and @charlierybak
Madison Hahamy / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the tensions between the staff at the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and their owners, who are subjects of over a dozen NLRB complaints — On February 9, 2019, at about 10 pm near the end of a Saturday night shift, John Robinson Block, one of the owners of the Toledo Blade …
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@cjr, @cpotterpgh, @mhahamy and @bladeguild
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate to release more NFTs in the future — Last fall, movie director Quentin Tarantino announced that he would auction ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs to the public.
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Reuters:
Indian music streaming app Gaana says it has switched to a paid subscription model after buyout talks failed: sources: the potential acquirer was Bharti Airtel — Tencent-backed Indian music streaming app Gaana has switched to a paid subscription model to avoid closing down after failing …
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Billboard and @dattaameet
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Streaming television is going through an existential crisis as users cancel services and creators fear having their show or movie deleted on an executive's whim — Missing archives, less ambitious programming, higher prices: Creators and subscribers say they're seeing the fallout from television's big revolution
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@karlbode, @karlbode, @ncweaver, @davidcorbett_ca, @karlbode, @adamconover, @karlbode, @tvgrimreaper, @gerryconway and @travismandrews, more at Techmeme »
Inside Radio:
Podcast Movement apologizes to Ben Shapiro for saying it was a “mistake” to sell The Daily Wire a booth, after Cumulus Media “disassociated” from the conference — Weeks after organizers of the podcast industry's largest conference attacked the most listened …
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@podcastmovement, Barrett Media, Radio & Television … and RADIO ONLINE
NBC Chicago:
A Republican PAC sends mailers to Illinois voters that are styled as newspapers with fake names like the “Chicago City Wire” and the “DuPage Policy Journal” — A conservative group that is behind a recent series of television advertisements critical of Gov. J.B. Pritzker …
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