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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; ~57% of ad-tier subscribers were people re-joining or new signups, while ~43% downgraded — Streaming giant's ad-backed plan accounted for 9% of new signups in the U.S. in November, according to subscription-analytics firm Antenna
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
An interview with Netflix's President of Worldwide Advertising Jeremi Gorman on the service's ambitions for the ad tier beyond 15- and 30-second ads and more — 2022 was a big year for Jeremi Gorman. The former Amazon executive stepped down as Snap's chief business officer …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with some accounts, helping publishers identify brands and key employees associated with them via badges — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column, where he said he “hated” Meghan Markle, received over 20,000 complaints, more than all the complaints in 2021 — Ipso receives in excess of 17,500 objections to Sun article, more than the regulator received in the whole of 2021
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017 — Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of all U.S. digital advertising …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
After negotiations with the UK's NUJ, the FT agrees to a £4,200 pay rise for those earning up to £42,000 per year and a 10% hike for those on £42,000 to £50,001 — The FT's is the largest cumulative pay rise recently reported by Press Gazette.
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David Satin / The Streamable:
Ampere Analysis: the Disney Bundle is an effective tool against price sensitivity among users; almost 32% of Hulu's total users have bundled it with Disney+ — Many have speculated that the way forward for an increasingly mature streaming market is aggregation.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Television Academy scraps “variety talk” and “variety sketch” Emmy categories and adds “outstanding talk series” and “outstanding scripted variety series” — The Television Academy is taking another stab at resolving its Emmys variety talk and variety sketch category conundrum.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
ProPublica plans to return $1.6M received from SBF's family foundation, setting aside the money until legal authorities decide where it should be sent — ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news outlet, will return the $1.6 million in funds it received from Sam Bankman-Fried's family foundation …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen: Fox News' The Five tops Tucker Carlson Tonight as 2022's most watched cable news show with ~3.4M viewers on average, a first for a non-primetime show — There is a new cable news ratings champion. — Nielsen data for 2022 rank the Fox News round table program “The Five” …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media expects to miss its 2022 revenue goal by over $100M, generating ~$600M, roughly flat compared to 2021, a blow as the company pursues a sale — The new-media company has been in sale talks with Greek broadcaster Antenna Group and has sought a valuation of around $1.5 billion
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
An interview with Spotify Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff on podcasts: Joe Rogan still dominates, canceling shows will be routine as in TV, and more — Joe Rogan, the freewheeling bro podcaster whose show is exclusively distributed by Spotify, is a magnet for controversy.
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