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4:45 PM ET, April 24, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet says it surpassed 270M paid subscriptions, driven by YouTube and Google One, and reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue up 10.3% YoY to $8.93B, vs. $8.97B est.  —  YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant's ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Comcast reports Q1 revenue down 0.6% YoY to $29.89B, Media revenue up 1% YoY to $6.4B, and adjusted EBITDA up 21.5% to $1B; Comcast lost 427K cable subscribers
Cydney Henderson / USA Today:
Shannon Sharpe says he is stepping away from his duties at ESPN and plans to return at the start of the NFL preseason, as he faces a $50M sexual assault lawsuit  —  Pro Football Hall of Famer and media personality Shannon Sharpe said on Thursday he is stepping away from ESPN.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more  —  Instagram Threads, Meta's newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialogue, without audio cues or speaker names, says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on  —  The new option drops sound descriptions and speaker names from subtitles. … Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue.
Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Golden Globes plans to air the 83rd annual ceremony on January 11, 2026, live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the US  —  The Golden Globes has unveiled its 2026 ceremony date — and it's moving back a week.  The 83rd annual Golden Globes is set to be held on Sunday, Jan. 11 …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Tortoise plans to launch Observer.co.uk on April 25 and publish eight to 12 stories per day; Tortoise co-CEO Richard Furness says “we can buck the market trend”  —  Press Gazette speaks to new co-CEO, digital editor and creative director of The Observer under Tortoise.
Associated Press:
Harvey Weinstein's retrial opens with a new jury assessing previous sexual assault allegations and a new claim; his 2020 rape conviction was overturned in 2024  —  Harvey Weinstein 's #MeToo retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations …
 
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The UK lifts sanctions on Syrian media outlets, including on the state-run agency General Organization of Radio and TV, Cham Press TV, and newspaper Al Watan
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Iran arrests four state TV staff members accused of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims, the first such open prosecution of state TV staff in decades
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Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more
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Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles

Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Sources: DHS is investigating whether 6 staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency
 
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