It will be radio silence for podcasts on Facebook starting June 3, as Meta informed its partners in the initiative that their podcasts will be removed from its platform altogether on that date. Ashley Carman of Bloomberg obtained the company’s note to its partners, in which it informed them that no new podcasts can be…
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While Prime Video gets a lot of Amazon’s streaming buzz, the company wants marketers to know it’s a real player in the AVOD space as well. Last week, the company rebranded its free streamer IMDb TV as Freevee, and Amazon announced a host of original programming for the platform at its first in-person NewFronts presentation…
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When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to Canada’s Parliament in March, he urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to picture his own nation facing the kind of endless bombardment that has shattered Ukraine. “Imagine that at 4 in the morning, each of you hears explosions, terrible explosions,” Zelenskyy said. “Justin, imagine that you hear it, and…
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Two years after it was bought by Fox Corporation, Tubi is doubling down on everything from original programming to ad tech as part of its biggest year yet. During Tubi’s NewFronts presentation Monday afternoon at New York’s Glasshouse, hosted by Vivica A. Fox with The Masked Singer emcee Nick Cannon serving as DJ, the free…
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On the evening of Jan. 2, 2019, some 9 million people were watching Saturday Night Live when a skit called “New Paint” aired. It featured an unemployed bartender named Beth (Aidy Bryant) who boasts to her visiting brother Tom (Beck Bennett) how she’s covered her living room walls with Lulworth Blue from Farrow & Ball–“the…