Mediagazer: 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 (Tess Patton/The Wrap)

9:55 PM ET, May 13, 2026

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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:

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Michael Schneider / Variety:

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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.

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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”

Discussion: Variety, YouTube Official Blog, Page Six, Adweek, Deadline, Tubefilter, Storyboard18 and Wall Street Journal

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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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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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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
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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 …

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:

Apple TV head of international development Morgan Wandell is leaving to launch a production company, Kismet; Matt Cherniss will take over series Wandell handled — Based in Los Angeles, Kismet will be developing and producing premium scripted series aimed at the global marketplace by finding …

Discussion: Screen, @kaedotcom.bsky.social, AppleInsider, Variety, Morgan Wandell on LinkedIn, 9to5Mac and MacTech.com

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 …

Discussion: Reuters, @alextecplayz@techhub.social, Courthouse News Service, PYMNTS, Bloomberg Law and r/Journalism

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