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5:50 AM ET, June 23, 2026

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC is airing direct appeals to its audience for The View and for stations it owns, asking viewers to comment on FCC actions challenging the show and stations  —  The spots, which will start airing on Monday, are the latest pushback from The Walt Disney Co. and the network …
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing $75M, equal to what Thrive invested in 2024  —  Search giant is putting about $75 million into the film company as part of an artificial-intelligence research partnership
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV  —  The Meta-owned company is going decidedly retro by experimenting with time-honored video formats with its creators.
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK ministers are advancing a bill requiring YouTube and TikTok to promote BBC and ITV content, as well as forcing streamers to show big sports events for free  —  YouTube, TikTok, and other major video-sharing platforms will be told to carry public service content prominently under new legislation being drawn up by the UK government.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Clive Davis, one of music's most powerful executives who guided the careers of Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, and Whitney Houston, dies at 94  —  He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music's most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Getty Images signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 120%+ and is up 5%+ YTD  —  Shares of Getty Images Holdings Inc. jumped about 200% in premarket trading on Monday after the photography repository announced a licensing deal with OpenAI.
Max Tani / Semafor:
The Daily Wire, Truth Social, and other conservative brands are making their presence known this year at Cannes Lions ad festival, which tends to avoid politics  —  THE SCOOP  —  The American right is arriving in force at this week's Riviera advertising extravaganza to “force the conversation Cannes has spent decades avoiding.”
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Netflix names Hannah Minghella as head of its Animation Studios, as it streamlines its animation efforts; VP Kira Goldberg will lead live-action family division  —  Hannah Minghella was named head of Netflix Animation Studios in an effort by the streaming giant to streamline all things animated.
Max Tani / Semafor:
The Atlantic ramps up its video podcasts, doubling its video team from ~10 to ~20, and says its podcast revenue is up 104% YoY and downloads rose ~50% YoY  —  One of America's oldest magazines is investing in video after seeing notable growth in its audience in recent months.
Discussion: @johnspurlock
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~$1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at $26 to $28 each, hitting a $19B valuation at the top of the range  —  Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company that acquires and revamps software businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion …
Meredith Klein / Meredith & The Media:
Q&A with Brian Steinberg, senior TV editor at Variety, on covering the business of advertising, media, and TV, how the role of journalism has changed, and more  —  This week, I sat down with Brian Steinberg, senior TV editor at Variety.  — Did you always want to be a journalist?
PYMNTS:
Walmart integrates its US and international ad operations into one framework and rebrands Sam's Club Member Access Platform to Sam's Club Connect  —  Walmart is integrating its advertising operations into one framework amid growing ad revenue.  —  Get the Full Story
Discussion: Walmart Inc.
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes  —  AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in Series E funding at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the financing.
 
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Jeff Barker / @jeffbarkermedia:
Jeff Barker, who has covered politics and sports for The Baltimore Sun for 25 years, resigns, saying the news outlet has changed under ownership of David Smith
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Filings: Disney's UK subsidiary reports revenue up 11.1% YoY to £4.4B for the FY ending September 27, 2025, with post-tax profits up 37.7% to £811M
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Mallory Moench / BBC:
Al Jazeera says Israeli strikes in Gaza killed its cameraman Ahmed Wishah; IDF says Wishah “served as a sniper operative” in Hamas' military wing
New York Times:
People Inc., a major food content creator, is ramping up social media video production that emphasizes human-made recipes and testing to stand out from AI slop
Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A case of brazen copyright infringement of John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, part of a trend where people use AI to repackage and replace sources
 

 
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio
 
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