Top News:
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming service's ad-supported tier now reaches 250 million viewers each month. … For the second year in a row …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix says it is adding three NFL games, in addition to Christmas Day rights, plus the NFL Honors awards as it extends its NFL deal through the 2029 season — The streamer will get the Thanksgiving Eve matchup, a week 18 game and the Australia game as well as NFL Honors …
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Variety, Sports Media Watch, Miami Herald, TVLine, Sports Business Journal, TV Tech, Forbes, Associated Press, Front Office Sports, CNET, The Athletic, Barrett Media, Deadspin, Awful Announcing, The Big Lead, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Cord Cutters News, WMTV15 News, Bloomberg, WBAY-TV, Raleigh News & Observer and NBCSports.com
Tess Patton / The Wrap:
YouTube announces a full slate of new and returning shows, including four new series from Alex Cooper's company and a global travel series from Trevor Noah — “Recess Therapy” creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum will put his own twist on the late night talk show with “Outside Tonight”
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YouTube Official Blog, Variety, Tubefilter, Deadline, Page Six, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Storyboard18 and Wall Street Journal
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Over 100 former ABC News journalists sign an open letter supporting the network and Disney, as ABC pushes back against the FCC's investigation of The View — The letter was organized by former ABC News correspondent Lisa Stark and former ABC News executive and senior producer Ian Cameron …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Analysis: Advance Local, owner of The Oregonian, PennLive.com, and more, has posted 17K+ articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for various betting platforms — A large network of prominent regional newspapers has posted thousands of low-quality articles promoting gambling and prediction markets — and is pretending it's journalism.
Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
WBD unveils agentic AI ad tools at its upfront presentation, including a Kerv.ai integration for scene-level contextual targeting and shoppable ads — At its upfront presentation to advertisers, the entertainment behemoth showcased plans to enhance targeting and interactivity across media environments with AI
Podnews:
Amazon Music starts rolling out video podcasts, initially in the US for customers across all subscription tiers on iOS and Android — Exclusive: Amazon Music begins rolling out video podcasts from today. Video podcasts will initially be available for customers in the US on iOS and Android, across all subscription tiers.
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404 Media, @kennysmith.org, @marcoalmada.com, @queenofthinair.bsky.social and Inside Radio
Rob Waugh / Press Gazette:
Four prolific crypto journalists who wrote for 30+ outlets ignored a reporter's ID verification requests; all had sparse LinkedIn profiles and likely AI photos — Four prolific financial journalists who cover the world of cryptocurrency have ignored repeated requests by Press Gazette to verify their identities.
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Futurism
Selome Hailu / Variety:
Netflix announces it plans a KPop Demon Hunters global concert tour, partnering with AEG Presents; cities, dates, and ticket details have yet to be announced — Netflix is launching a “KPop Demon Hunters” global concert tour. — The news was announced during the streamer's presentation to ad buyers at upfronts in New York City.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil is broadcasting from Taipei this week after failing to obtain a Chinese visa in time for the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing — The Scoop — CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil will broadcast from Taipei this week after failing to obtain a visa to China in time …
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Reuters, Financial Times, New York Post, The Independent, Associated Press, U.S. Home, IWCP Online, The Wrap, Raw Story, Mirror, @maxwelltani, Newsbusters, @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social, Paste, Status, International Business Times, Deadline, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, @zugernat.bsky.social, @jalefkowit@vmst.io, @pithywidow.bsky.social, @frohe.bsky.social, @2xaught7.ing, @mattdelong.bsky.social, @carlquintanilla.bsky.social, @justinbaragona.bsky.social, Variety, CBS News and Deseret News
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
ITV says it remains in “active discussions” with Sky over a sale of its M&E business, and reports Q1 revenue flat YoY to £877M and Studios up 4% YoY to £400M — ITV is still in “active discussions” with Sky over a sale of its network to the pay-TV giant.
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Reuters, ITV News, The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent, Reuters and TVBEurope
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Voice actors allege in lawsuits their voices were wrongly used by Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia to develop AI or other voice-related tech — Book narrators, broadcasters, podcasters and others allege in lawsuits filed this week that their voices were wrongly used …
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@alextecplayz@techhub.social, PYMNTS, Courthouse News Service, Reuters, Bloomberg Law and r/Journalism
