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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
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Rick Reger / Local News Initiative:
A survey of 1,507 US teens aged 13 to 17 finds 46% saw local TV news daily or weekly, while 42% encountered national network TV news daily or weekly — New Medill survey shows higher-than-expected news engagement among young people — An oft-cited factor in the continued struggles …
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The Desk, @localnewsini and @timafranklin
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
How Paramount Network reversing the release order of 1883 and Yellowstone on streaming and broadcast helped grow viewers, a tactic other companies could adopt — The 2010s USA Network drama Suits might have been the hottest thing on Netflix this summer, but over on cable …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to add live sports to Max at no extra cost for a limited time later in 2023, and start charging a sports fee likely in February or March 2024 — Customers will need to pay an additional amount for sports starting next year, likely around February or March, said the people …
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Warner Bros. Television Group suspends several overall deals for top creatives, including J.J. Abrams, Greg Berlanti, Bill Lawrence, and Mindy Kaling — Warner Bros. Television Group has also suspended pacts for Mindy Kaling and Bill Lawrence. — The WGA strike has reached …
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Variety, @snoodit, @salcalleros, Deadline and The Wrap
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube plans to drop some Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads, starting in November 2023 — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube …
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The Keyword, @ekstasis.bsky.social, Neowin, Engadget, 9to5Google and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Lane Brown / Vulture:
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
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Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge:
Some small independent publishers struggle after Amazon ended Kindle Periodicals on September 4; Fantasy Magazine said its last issue will be in October 2023 — I like short stories. I read them, and I write them. I grew up subscribing to and reading The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
How the NFL conquered Hollywood via $110B in deals for exclusive live games with broadcasters and streamers, producing scripted and unscripted content, and more — To the tune of $110 billion, the league has shrewdly leveraged the fact that media — whether NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN or Amazon and YouTube …
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Barrett Media, @alexweprin, @alexweprin and New York Magazine
Deadline:
A look at Netflix's success-based residuals in France, Germany, and Scandinavia, driven by laws about authors' rights, as some in the US debate such metrics — Since the outbreak of the dual Hollywood labor strikes, the issue of residuals has risen to the fore as a key battleground dividing …
Reuters:
A Burmese court sentences photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike to 20 years in prison, the longest known prison term given to a media employee since the 2021 army coup — A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison, his employer said …
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