Sources and docs: Amazon has increased Prime Video's ad load to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes per hour when it introduced ads in January 2024
streaming just got a lot worse David Satin / The Streamable : Prime Video has doubled the number of ads it makes viewers watch Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Prime Video reportedly shows almost twic...
OpenAI's pitch deck to news publishers promises priority placement to partners in chat conversations and payment contingent on “display success”
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Docs: Google is paying a handful of independent publishers a five-figure sum for one year to use an unreleased suite of generative AI tools to post stories
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Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks
The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Threads: @thekenyeung , @markstenberg3 , @martinsfp , and @frederi...
Some Instagram accounts, such as NextShark, increasingly document incidents of anti-Asian violence that some say spurs a relentless cycle of aggregated trauma
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For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation
Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival. Tweets: @mims , @wiczipedia , @roncharles , @mims , @maxabrahms , @aditi_muses , @...
A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
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A skeptical look at Clubhouse, where most conversations are boring and whose audio-centric, synchronous content may be far less compelling after the pandemic
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! … Share Medialyte — Clubhouse in the dog house — On Sunday night … Tweets: @rafat , @elenistefanou , @mathowie , @mathowie , @martinfehrensen , @niviachanta , @...