Major US networks are eyeing local sports rights as part of their streaming and broadcast portfolios, while NBA and MLB explore ways to nationalize local rights (Axios)

Mediagazer: Major US networks are eyeing local sports rights as part of their streaming and broadcast portfolios, while NBA and MLB explore ways to nationalize local rights (Axios)

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The Verge:

YouTube launches Communities, a space where fans can chat with each other and creators, and Community Hub, which gives creators a view of channel activity— Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers.
Discussion: Fast Company, TechCrunch, Variety, Android Authority, Neowin, Tubefilter, The Keyword, 9to5Google and Deadline, more at Techmeme »

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Jessica Bursztynsky /
Fast Company: YouTube will now help creators' fans form online communities

Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other

Todd Spangler /
Variety: YouTube Leans Into AI With Tools to Generate Video, Backgrounds and More: 'It's About Empowering Creativity, Not Replacing It'

Rushil Agrawal /
Android Authority: YouTube auto-dubbing will let you watch global content with realistic voice and tone matching

John Callaham /
Neowin: YouTube is adding new features for creators and viewers including Communities

Sam Gutelle /
Tubefilter: YouTube wants creators to share the Hype

Rene Ritchie /
The Keyword: 9 new features we announced at Made on YouTube 2024

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: YouTube Will Give A Living-Room Nod To TV Tradition, Organizing Channel Content By Seasons And Episodes

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The Verge:
YouTube adds an Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app for creators to use AI to generate video concepts, create titles and thumbnails, and write videos

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The Wrap, Business Insider, TechCrunch, @baekdal, Fast Company and @Faintdreams@dice.camp, more at Techmeme »

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Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: YouTube to Organize Creator Content by Seasons, Episodes in Nod to Traditional TV Business Insider: YouTube just unveiled new features that could make life easier for creators but come with risks

Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: YouTube Studio now lets creators brainstorm video ideas with the help of AI

Thomas Baekdal /
@baekdal: Now it's even quicker for clueless creators to crate AI slop... Note to creators. If you have no idea what to make a video about, turning to AI is not the solution.

Chris Stokel-Walker /
Fast Company: How LinkedIn became influencers' hot new video platform @Faintdreams@dice.camp: Did any actual YouTube Creators actually ask for this ? — “YouTube will use AI to generate ideas, titles, and even full videos — / YouTube's own tools can now help you write the perfect title, pick the perfect thumbnail, and make a video in seconds”. - The Verge — 😖 — #YouTube #AIVideo …

The Verge:
YouTube unveils Hype, a new promotional system inside of YouTube to help boost smaller creators; the most-hyped videos appear on a platform-wide leaderboard

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TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

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Sarah Perez /
TechCrunch: YouTube unveils ‘Hype,’ a new way for fans to help smaller creators grow their reach

The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube plans a major connected TV app revamp, with a new UI and features like immersive previews for creator pages and an updated subscribe functionality

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TVNewsCheck, Engadget and Brynn Evans on LinkedIn, more at Techmeme »

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Alex Weprin /
TVNewsCheck: YouTube Plans Major Revamp Of TV App After Overtaking Netflix, Streaming Rivals

Brynn Evans /
Brynn Evans on LinkedIn: I'm really proud of our team's focus on improving the experience for creators on TV. These creators are the lifeblood of YouTube. … TechCrunch: YouTube integrates Google DeepMind's AI video generation model Veo into Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds and six-second clips

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Wired, Guohui on LinkedIn and Google DeepMind, more at Techmeme »

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Guohui /
Guohui on LinkedIn: Exciting news! We are thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of the AI video generation capability within YouTube Shorts. …

Eli Collins /
Google DeepMind: Empowering YouTube creators with generative AI

TechCrunch:

Patreon adds Autopilot, which predicts free members that are most likely to upgrade and offers discounts, after finding upgrade rates grew by ~19% in testing— Patreon is rolling out new automated features for creators to convert free members to paid ones.

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Patreon and Tubefilter

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Bleacher Report:

ESPN's NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving after seven years to become general manager of the men's basketball program at his alma mater St. Bonaventure— In a stunning turn of events, ESPN lost arguably the best basketball insider in media on Wednesday.

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ESPN, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Hill, The Guardian, Awful Announcing, Variety, St. Bonaventure, @adamschefter, New York Post, Front Office Sports, ComingSoon.net, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, KVIA-TV, Us Weekly, WKYC-TV, Plain Dealer, USA Today, The Verge, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Sportico, Barrett Media, New York Daily News and Associated Press

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Ben Strauss /
Washington Post: Prominent NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski announces retirement from ESPN

Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: JUST IN: Top NBA Insider Adrian ‘Woj’ Wojnarowski Announces Retirement from ESPN

Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Adrian Wojnarowski leaving ESPN

Sam Neumann /
Awful Announcing: Sports media world reacts to Adrian Wojnarowski's shocking retirement

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Adrian Wojnarowski, NBA Insider, Says He'll Leave ESPN for College Role St. Bonaventure: Wojnarowski, '91, Retires From ESPN To Accept GM Role With Bonnies Basketball Program

Adam Schefter /
@adamschefter: ESPN senior NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski has agreed to become the general manager of the men's basketball program at St. Bonaventure, he told ESPN. The role includes Name Image and Likeness allocation, recruiting and supporting successful Bonnies coach Mark Schmidt. [image]

Matt Ehalt /
New York Post: ESPN ‘likely’ to target Chris Haynes, Shams Charania to replace Adrian Wojnarowski after retirement stunner

Nicholas Tan /
ComingSoon.net: Here's Why ESPN's Woj Retired & Walked Away From $35 Million Contract

Steve Henson /
Los Angeles Times: Final Woj bomb: Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to take St. Bonaventure basketball GM job

Erik Pedersen /
Deadline: Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski Retires As ESPN's NBA Insider To Be GM Of His Alma Mater's Hoops Team

Wayne Sterling /
KVIA-TV: NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become basketball general manager at alma mater

Russell Steinberg /
Us Weekly: ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski Retires From Reporting in Shocking Announcement

John Wawrow /
WKYC-TV: Adrian Wojnarowski is leaving ESPN

Tim Bielik /
Plain Dealer: The NBA's most famous newsbreaker is leaving the industry for another job

Blake Schuster /
USA Today: Adrian Wojnarowski's 7 biggest Woj bombs as famed NBA reporter retires from ESPN

Richard Lawler /
The Verge: NBA Twitter newsbreaker Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring New York Times: Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to become GM for St. Bonaventure men's basketball

Jacob Feldman /
Sportico: ESPN's Woj Retires From TV to Take St. Bonaventure Hoops Job Barrett Media: Adrian ‘Woj’ Wojnarowski Retires from ESPN, Named Men's Basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

James O'Connell /
New York Daily News: NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski drops ultimate ‘Woj bomb’ and retires from ESPN

Reuters:

Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal— Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google earlier this year offered to sell its advertising marketplace AdX to allay EU competition concerns …

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The Information, Breitbart, Neowin, Financial Times, Engadget and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »

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Lucas Nolan /
Breitbart: Google Trial 2.0: Internal Documents Show Internet Giant Used Exclusivity Deals to Maintain Ad Empire

Karthik Mudaliar /
Neowin: Google overturns €1.49 billion antitrust fine by the EU over digital ad market practices

Javier Espinoza /
Financial Times: Google wins appeal against €1.5bn EU competition fine

Mariella Moon /
Engadget: Google wins appeal against $1.7 billion EU fine for ‘abusive’ advertising practices Associated Press: Google wins legal bid to overturn 1.5 billion euro antitrust fine in EU digital ad case

Wall Street Journal:

Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows— Hollywood studio will give the tech company access to its library of movies and shows in exchange for a custom-built AI model

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Todd Spangler /
Variety: Lionsgate Will Use AI to Let Filmmakers ‘Augment’ Their Work, Studio Expects to Save ‘Millions’ via Pact With Startup Runway

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library

Sean Burch /
The Wrap: Lionsgate Partners With Runway AI to Create Tools for Storyboarding, Post-Production

Charles Pulliam-Moore /
The Verge: Lionsgate signs deal to train AI model on its movies and shows

Jessica Toonkel /
Jessica Toonkel on LinkedIn: Major news in Hollywood. Lionsgate has agreed to give generative AI startup Runway access to its entire library of shows and movies in exchange for its own AI model it can use for the big screen

Sarah Fielding /
Engadget: Lionsgate signs a deal with the devil (an AI startup)

Bruce Gil /
Quartz: The studio behind ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ just turned over its media library for a custom AI model

Cole Garry /
Cole Garry on LinkedIn: Working with Runway means seeing a lot of firsts, but this one is particularly exciting - the first deal between a major studio and an AI company …

Carl Franzen /
VentureBeat: Runway inks deal with Lionsgate in first team-up for AI provider and major movie studio

Emanuel Maiberg /
404 Media: Homemade Porn Site Promises Not to Train AI on Performers

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Lionsgate Partners With Runway for AI Use in Movie Productions

Kristin Brzoznowski /
WORLD SCREEN: Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm Runway

Engadget:

Substack now lets creators with its Bestsellers badges start live videos within its app, and plans to roll out the feature to all users in the coming months— It's just for top users at the start, but will the general audience tune in? — Substack is adding a live video component to its newsletter service.

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@taylorlorenz, @ryansingel@writing.exchange and On Substack, more at Techmeme »

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Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz: Had so much fun DESTROYING @kenklippenstein w facts and logic on our last Substack Live, excited to stream more with each other over the next few months! https://www.engadget.com/...

Ryan Singel /
@ryansingel@writing.exchange: Another day, another Substack feature designed to lock publishers into #Substack. — It started with a proprietary social network nowlive video *in the Substack app* — It's pretty clear where all this is headed and it's not an indie open web. Just the usual VC-funded roach motel trap. …

Variety:

Memos: Spotify VP and Head of Content Business Sahar Elhabashi plans to leave at the end of 2024; Roman Wasenmüller will become interim podcast head— Sahar Elhabashi, VP and head of the podcast business at Spotify, will leave the streaming giant at the end of 2024 after six years at the company.

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Podnews

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CNN:

Online outlet The Haitian Times' staff face threats and attacks since Donald Trump and JD Vance amplified conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants in Ohio— New York CNN — — Macollvie Neel, editor of the Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home on Monday when her doorbell rang.

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Media Nation, Mediaite, Vibe, KVIA-TV, Associated Press and WKYC-TV

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Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: All news is local: The Dorchester Reporter tears into Trump's and Vance's racist attacks

Jamie Frevele /
Mediaite: CNN GOP Commentator Says It's the ‘Absolute Worst Time’ For Trump-Vance to Visit Springfield

Zachary B. Wolf /
KVIA-TV: Ohio Republicans are being very, very careful in correcting Trump and Vance

Associated Press:
Unidentified gunmen kill high-ranking migration official in one of Haiti's biggest cities

Nieman Lab:

Interviews with 20 journalists focused on why they stayed in the profession: emotional ties with audiences, chances to learn for a living, camaraderie, and more— “The day-to-day work of news, journalists reminded us, was the opportunity to learn for a living.”

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@mbalter, Karly Cox on LinkedIn, @gregperreault and @niemanlab

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@mbalter: We know why journalists leave the profession. A new study looks at why they stay | Nieman #Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Karly Cox /
Karly Cox on LinkedIn: Nobody goes into journalism for the money! But most of us, either deliberately or by falling into it, whether writing about sport, wars …

Gregory P. Perreault /
@gregperreault: New by me @NiemanLab! Here I reflect on recent scholarship on joy in journalism by @claumellado and I https://www.niemanlab.org/...

Podnews:

WARC forecasts Spotify's global advertising revenue to grow 13% YoY to $2.1B in 2024; podcast ad revenue growth outpaced increases in music ad monetization— Spotify, the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, is now turning to opportunities in the video advertising space whilst making …

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Radio & Television …

Axios:

Major US networks are eyeing local sports rights as part of their streaming and broadcast portfolios, while NBA and MLB explore ways to nationalize local rights— - That has allowed local TV giants like Scripps and Gray TV to compete for sports rights. — While teams are striking …

404 Media:

LinkedIn confirms training its AI on user data by default, and says it is “making sure that those who have specific privacy preferences” can opt out— LinkedIn is using its users' data for improving the social network's generative AI products, but has not yet updated its terms …

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Kyle Wiggers /
TechCrunch: LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

Joseph Cox /
@josephcox@infosec.exchange: New from 404 Media: LinkedIn is training AI on users before updating its terms of service. People noticed a new setting on generative AI. I asked LinkedIn, they said they're updating their terms “shortly.” They went ahead and trained AI w/o updating https://www.404media.co/... [image]

Grant Gulovsen /
@gulovsen@mastodon.social: You can file this under “Stories that should absolutely be shared by everyone on LinkedIn who has a LinkedIn account” — Also, h/t to @paninid for catching all of this yesterday and sharing instructions on Mastodon about how to opt out. — https://www.404media.co/... @chiraag@mastodon.online: Just turned off the option, thanks @404mediaco and @josephcox ! — https://www.404media.co/...

Kevin Beaumont /
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social: As an update to this, the media are uncovering that LinkedIn began training AI models on user posts both without — telling customers and without updating their terms of service (they still haven't). https://www.404media.co/...

Michael Taggart /
Michael Taggart on LinkedIn: Extremely gross behavior from this particular Hellsite. To turn this option off, go to: — https://www.linkedin.com/... https://lnkd.in/... @mkj@social.mkj.earth: ""We're making changes that give people using LinkedIn even more choice and control when it — comes to how we use data [...] People can choose to opt-out [...]" — LinkedIn again proving lack of understanding of the term “consent”. — https://www.404media.co/... #LinkedIn

Ralfmaximus /