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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Internal research: Twitter has been losing “heavy tweeters”, who tweet three to four times a week, as their interest in news, sports, and entertainment wanes — “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube's ad revenue dropped 1.9% YoY to $7.07B in Q3, below expectations of $7.42B and representing its first year-over-year drop in at least two years — Overall, Alphabet, Google's parent company, also came in below analyst estimates. The company posted revenue of $69.1 billion and earnings per share of $1.06 for Q3.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: YouTuber MrBeast is looking to raise ~$150M at a ~$1.5B valuation, to expand his video empire further into merchandise, restaurants, and consumer goods — MrBeast, the YouTube star-turned entrepreneur, is looking to raise around $150 million for his business at a roughly $1.5 billion valuation …
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Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to €3.04B, MAUs up 20% YoY to 456M vs. 448.6M est., and Premium subs up 13% YoY to 195M; stock drops 6%+ on ad growth miss — Audio streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) Tuesday surpassed Wall Street's estimates for revenue and subscriber gains …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: Warner Bros. Discovery expects to incur $3.2B-$4.3B in post-merger restructuring charges, including $2B-$2.5B in content write-offs, through Q4 2024 — The media company disclosed expected ranges for the charges in an SEC filing Monday. For the third quarter of 2022 …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
UK press regulator Impress kicks out Unity News Network, which grew out of the pro-Brexit campaign group UK Unity, over its Ukraine and COVID-19 vaccine content — Press regulator Impress has kicked right-wing Unity News Network out of its regulatory scheme “with immediate effect”.
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Therese Bottomly / Oregonian:
The Oregonian issues an apology for its past promotion of racist and xenophobic views and publishes an examination of its history dating back to 1861 — As editor of The Oregonian, the current leader of the newsroom, I unreservedly apologize to our readers and our community for the racism in this newspaper and the legacy it leaves.
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Guillermo Altares / El País:
An interview with Andrew Wylie, arguably the world's most powerful literary agent, about the attack on Salman Rushdie, Amazon behaving “like ISIS”, and more — The world's leading literary agent speaks about Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Donald Trump and the e-commerce giant
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@matthewdancona, @jmahrens, @praddenkeefe, CNN, The Wrap, Boing Boing, The Bookseller and Scroll.in
CNN:
Axios' Sara Fischer is joining CNN as an on-air contributor on the media beat; she will continue to oversee Axios' media coverage — Sara Fischer is joining CNN as an on-air contributor on the media beat, the network announced today. As Axios' media reporter for the last six years …
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@oliverdarcy, @ashleyrgold, @hayekmg, @dmccabe, @sarafischer, @inafried, Talking Biz News and Barrett Media
Peter Lee / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
A Hong Kong court finds Jimmy Lai, founder of the defunct Apple Daily newspaper, guilty of fraud over using the paper's HQ; Lai has been in custody since 2020 — Jimmy Lai, the founder of defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, has been convicted of fraud after being found …
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Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the increased use of celebrity deepfakes in ads, with or without their permission, raising legal and ethical questions for the marketing industry — Digital simulations of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Leo DiCaprio and others have shown up in ads, as the image-melding technology grows …
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@patrickcoffee and @michellemanafy, more at Techmeme »
Baranjot Kaur / Reuters:
Report: the UK's Channel 4 is exploring being acquired by a nonprofit trust as an alternative to privatization; C4 is currently state-owned but ad-funded — British publicly-owned broadcaster Channel 4 is exploring whether it could be acquired by a non-profit trust as an alternative …
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