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 (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

Mediagazer: 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 (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

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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— The platform will let creators organize their videos around episodes and seasons, while adding cinematic “immersive previews” and other functionality.

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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— Artificial intelligence is running rampant across Google's entire product portfolio, and YouTube is adopting some of the company's newest tech …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

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

Chris Stokel-Walker /
Fast Company: How LinkedIn became influencers' hot new video platform

The Verge:

YouTube launches Communities, a mix of old-school forums, subreddit, and Facebook group, and a new Community Hub to help creators use Communities— Many creators post videos on YouTube but take to other platforms to actually interact with their fans and viewers.

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— It's a new way for viewers to share the stuff they really like — and for creators to grow on an increasingly busy platform.

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TechCrunch, Deadline and The Keyword, 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

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

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

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 and Google DeepMind, more at Techmeme »

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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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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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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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The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Runway, Engadget, Quartz, 404 Media, Media Play News, VentureBeat, Runway and WORLD SCREEN

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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

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

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

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

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

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/...

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.

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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The Verge, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, Front Office Sports, Sportico, @adamschefter, Barrett Media, ABC7 and USA Today

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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

Michael McCarthy /
Front Office Sports: Adrian Wojnarowski Leaves ESPN For St. Bonaventure GM Job

Jacob Feldman /
Sportico: ESPN's Woj Retires to Take St. Bonaventure Hoops Job

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] Barrett Media: Adrian ‘Woj’ Wojnarowski Retires from ESPN, Named Men's Basketball GM at St. Bonaventure

Current Affairs:

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of thoughtful ideas, but its writers get away with sloppy, unsupported arguments, and its errors are long-lasting and insidious— Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic.

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@marsinra: For years, I've struggled to articulate why I find the Atlantic so off-putting, but this article gets it: the pernicious disguise of racism under the banner of intellectualism (most recently exhibited with Palestine) & the embarrassing clickbaity packaging of serious topics.

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: have received several critical responses to my article that are basically “Yes, you are right that @TheAtlantic sucks for exactly the reasons you say, but you should have picked these other terrible articles to criticize.” Sorry everyone, there were just too many to choose from!

Claire Potter /
@tenuredradical: As someone who recently published in The Atlantic, I obviously think it is a worthwhile platform. But I can't help admire the detail this guy goes into, and the willingness to justify his animus concretely. That said, I think similar criticisms could be made of all opinion

Claire Potter /
@tenuredradical: @speechboy71 No, it doesn't: but still. Given how many people offer almost no evidence for their strident views, you have to hand it to someone who gives it his all. I think there is a bigger argument to be made about factual and opinion journalism, though.

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: @ANSchmidtLebuhn @TheAtlantic yeah that's exactly it!

Sheila Liming /
@seeshespeak: Okay but you forgot the part about how they also stiff writers after and don't pay after the article has gone to press [image]

Nathan J Robinson /
@nathanjrobinson: Have written an 11,000 word article on why I think @TheAtlantic is the worst magazine in America, including its regular publishing of terrible arguments, its sloppiness with basic facts, its lack of editing, and its promotion of horrible ideas: https://www.currentaffairs.org/ ... @rafat: This is the best headline in media critique ever written. Delicious and 🎯🎯🎯https:// www.currentaffairs.org/...

Briallen Hopper /
@briallenhopper: I loved the conversation Ta-Nehisi Coates created at the Atlantic (I'm thinking more of the blog than the cover stories, though both mattered); I relied on Ed Yong during the pandemic; & I just taught a great piece by Ross Perlin. But this takedown definitely brings the receipts!

Michelle Celarier /
@mcelarier: A must read. Thanks to @NathanJRobinson for writing this.

Alexander N Schmidt-Lebuhn /
@anschmidtlebuhn: @NathanJRobinson @TheAtlantic Great read. Reminds me of certain realisations I had about Der Spiegel in my late teens, supposedly the most serious German magazine and my parents' main source of political thought when I grew up: Their editorial approach was entirely argumentation by selected anecdote.

Michael A. Cohen /
@speechboy71: @TenuredRadical Ugh, tangential nonsense. Deconstructing a handful of pieces (and doing do with a clear bias) doesn't make for a persuasive argument

Miguel Afonso Caetano /
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org: “So I want to explain exactly what it is that I think makes The Atlantic terrible and why I think we'd all be better off if it stopped publishing. My basic criticism is that while it presents itself as a magazine of ideas—which makes readers feel as if they are engaging intelligently with important issues …

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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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/...

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/...

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]

TechCrunch:

Snap debuts a tool that lets select creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundation video models— At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it's introducing a new AI video-generation tool for creators.

Discussion:
MIT Technology Review, TVNewsCheck and Business Insider

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Rhiannon Williams /
MIT Technology Review: The Download: Congress's AI bills, and Snap's new AR spectacles

Shriya Bhattacharya /
Business Insider: Snapchat unveils new features to recruit more creators and land them paid brand deals

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The Verge:
Snapchat gets a redesign that pares down five tabs to three, including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators

Discussion:
The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, Deadline, Tubefilter, Axios, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google

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Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Snap Rolls Out New AR Glasses, Streamlined App Design And Other New Features At Sixth Annual Partner Summit

Sara Fischer /
Axios: Snap debuts operating system for AR glasses

Ryan Christoffel /
9to5Mac: Snapchat is getting redesigned, plus new AI lens displays an old-aged you

Karissa Bell /
Engadget: Snap is redesigning Snapchat and adding new AI powers

Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: Snapchat launches video comments and tools for creators seeking brand deals

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Snapchat tests ‘simple’ version of the app without Snap Map or Stories tab

Abner Li /