Mediagazer: Spotify launches a US audiobook service with 300K titles from major and independent publishers; users purchase and download individual books to play in its app (J. Clara Chan/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

YouTube unveils Creator Music, which lets creators browse a catalog and use songs by buying rights or sharing revenue, launching out of beta in the US this fall — In addition to the groundbreaking news that YouTube would begin to monetize Shorts videos and revamp its Partner Program …

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Karissa Bell / Engadget:

YouTube plans to expand its Partner Program to give 45% of Shorts ad revenue to creators with 1,000+ subscribers and 10M views on Shorts within a 90-day period — YouTube just made a major change to its Partner Program that will allow its short-form video creators to make a lot more money from its platform.

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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:

Spotify launches a US audiobook service with 300K titles from major and independent publishers; users purchase and download individual books to play in its app — The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate …

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Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:

NBC plans to air the Golden Globes ceremony in January 2023 as part of a one-year agreement to “allow” the HFPA to “explore new opportunities” for distribution — The TV network announced on Tuesday that it is bringing the awards ceremony back to its airwaves on Tuesday …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

The Atlantic's first two film and TV projects are airing soon on Peacock, part of a wider licensing push; it has 12 other projects optioned or in production — The Atlantic is pushing aggressively into film and TV projects as part of a wider licensing revenue push.

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Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:

A new book says that under White House pressure, Fox News's Bret Baier emailed the network's president during the 2020 election and urged calling AZ for Trump — - Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.

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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:

Q&A with SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan on growth, content, and more, as the service launches in the Nordics today and the Netherlands and Portugal on October 25 — “We are launching with really attractive price points” and offering “a minimum of 30 movies a year,” Monty Sarhan says in an interview …

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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:

Walmart Connect announces partnerships with TikTok, Snap, and Roku to measure how social media and CTV ads affect sales and help brands with targeting — Retailer has partnerships with platforms to help P&G, L'Oreal, Samsung and J&J with targeting and attribution

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Pew Research Center:

Survey of US adults: 31% get news on Facebook, 25% on YouTube, 14% on Twitter, 13% on Instagram, and 10% on TikTok; a third of TikTok users get news on the app — Digital news has become an important part of Americans' news media diets, with social media playing a crucial role in news consumption.

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Cordilia James / Wall Street Journal:

Closed captions on videos are used widely by people under 40 years old, going beyond accessibility and translation to improve understanding and aid multitasking — As automatic captioning on TikTok and creative audio descriptions on Netflix go mainstream, so does accessibility — Closed captions are cool now.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Time launches CO2 by Time, a sustainability division that aims to help companies tackle climate change, featuring portfolios of climate action projects — Time is launching a sustainability division called “CO2 by Time” that will offer companies tools that go beyond just offsetting their carbon emissions.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

LinkedIn hires Courtney Coupe, most recently SVP of content strategy and operations for CNN Digital, as its first head of original programming — Courtney Coupe, most recently SVP of content strategy and operations for CNN Digital, is joining LinkedIn as the company's first head of original programming.

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