Verizon’s Tumblr Traffic Plummets After Ban of Adult Content
CNET: Tumblr's crackdown on adult content appears to be hitting the site hard. Similarweb, a web analytics firm, reported that visits to the popular blogging site have dipped significantly since the December pornography ban. As of Jan. 28, views had dropped by more...
Facebook Change Spurs ‘Angry’ News Feed Led by Fox News
Nieman Lab: It’s been a little over a year since Facebook announced major algorithm changes that would decrease the amount of news in News Feed. What does the news environment on Facebook look like now? The “angry” reaction dominates many pages, with Fox News in the...
News Corp to Launch Influencer Marketing Agency in London
Digiday: News UK wants in on the influencer marketing game. The owner of the Times, Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers has created an independent influencer agency in order to carve out a new revenue stream beyond traditional advertising....
New York Times’s Digital Success is Hard for Others to Match
Business Insider: It's easy to look at the success of the New York Times and be hopeful about the prospects for reader-paid online journalism. But it will be hard for others to replicate that success, as few have the caliber and breadth of journalism and editorial...
Advance’s Cleveland Plain Dealer Cuts 14 Jobs as Ads Dry Up
Plain Dealer: Less than three months after announcing plans to eliminate 29 jobs by shifting its page-production work to a centralized outside system, the Plain Dealer notified staff on Friday it plans to eliminate an additional 14 newsroom jobs in about two...
Meredith Eyes Pet Owners with Debut of Happy Paws Magazine
O'Dwyer's: Meredith is launching a new magazine, Happy Paws, that will be aimed at dog and cat owners. The magazine, which is set to hit newsstands on April 9, is being produced in partnership with a veterinarian-led organization called Fear...
Facebook, Twitter Figure Into Mass Shootings in New Zealand
USA Today: Police in New Zealand say multiple people were killed in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. The gunman live-streamed his attack in a 17-minute Facebook video that appeared to be recorded on a helmet camera. A 74-page manifesto posted to...
Netflix, Spielberg Reach Truce in Big-Time Battle Over Oscars
New York Post: Hollywood is buzzing that Steven Spielberg and Netflix are calling a truce in a battle over the Oscars. The iconic director — who’s been pushing for the Oscars to create guidelines that would keep streaming services from competing — was spotted at...
Nielsen Pulls Back Curtain on Netflix’s Secret Viewership Data
NBC News: Nielsen, which began tracking Netflix in 2017 and employs a combination of audio and digital data collection, found that “Roma,” an arthouse-style movie about the life of a Mexican family, was watched by 3.2 million U.S. households in January and...
Fox Corp to Replace 21st Century Fox on S&P 500 Next Week
MarketWatch: Fox Corp. will replace 21st Century Fox on the S&P 500 ahead of the market's opening bell on Tuesday following Disney's acquisition. "S&P DJI considers Fox Corp. to be the surviving entity of Twenty-First Century Fox and therefore both the Class A...
Viacom Cuts Jobs at CMT in Nashville Amid Integration Effort
Deadline: With CMT being integrated into the Music Group (MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo), the Viacom network is eliminating several positions in the Nashville operations. The effort to streamline departments such as scheduling, communications and marketing is resulting in a...
Comcast’s NBC Taps YouTube Star for Late-Night Show Host
Daily News: Lilly Singh is about to become the only woman with a late night talk show on broadcast TV. The YouTube star will take over for Carson Daly at 1:35 a.m. on NBC. “An Indian-Canadian woman with her own late night show? Now that is a dream come true,” Singh...
Vice Media ‘Live’ Staffers Walk Out Over Ride-Home Benefits
Daily Beast: Staffers on the new daily show "Vice Live" briefly walked out of the Vice offices last week in protest, following a dispute over the company’s refusal to provide rides home for employees working late...
PBS Unveils $3 a Month Streaming Channel on Amazon Prime
World Screen: PBS Distribution has launched PBS Living, a new streaming channel available on Amazon Prime. The channel costs $2.99 a month after a seven-day free trial. It will offer subscribers hundreds of hours of PBS content, from classic series like "The French...
Facebook Sees Departure of Product Chief, WhatsApp Leader
New York Times: Two of Facebook’s top executives — one regarded as the company’s No. 3, and the other the head of its WhatsApp messaging service — are leaving after disagreements with Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, over the social network’s future...
Apple’s iPad to Face New Low-Price Rival Tablet from Walmart
Bloomberg: Look out Apple -- Walmart is moving into iPad territory. The world’s largest retailer plans to introduce an inexpensive, kid-friendly tablet computer under its ONN store brand, part of a broader redesign of its electronics department. The device will run on...
P&G Plans Off-Broadway Show About Olay Skin-Care Products
Cincinnati Business Courier: Procter & Gamble will take advertising to another level by staging an off-Broadway production of a musical about Olay skin care products. The Cincinnati-based maker of consumer goods stated that the show will be performed one night...
Forecast: Esports Ad Revenue to Exceed $200 Million by 2020
Reuters: Competitive video game advertising revenues in the United States are expected to surpass $200 million by 2020, according to a report released on Thursday. Such esports ad revenue will grow 25 percent to $178 million this year and to more than $214 million in...
Tribune Reports Spike Across Digital Content, Subscriptions
MediaPost: Tribune Publishing has reported its Q4 and full-year results for 2018, revealing positive numbers across digital content and subscriptions with a boost to its net income. Digital content revenues increase by 145% compared to Q4 of 2017. Digital-only...
Gannett to Sell Sports Website The Big Lead to Minute Media
Morning Consult: Minute Media said Thursday that it has purchased sports, media and pop culture website The Big Lead from USA Today parent company Gannett, and it doesn’t plan to stop there. Minute Media is also evaluating publishers in the technology, food and...
Conde Nast’s New Yorker Leads at National Magazine Awards
New York Post: It was a battle of the titans at the National Magazine Awards Thursday night, pitting Adam Moss, in his final contest at the helm of New York magazine, against David Remnick of The New Yorker, the once and future...
Meredith’s People Joins Trend of Celebrity Editor Departures
New York Post: Running a magazine isn’t as glamorous as it used to be. Just ask Jess Cagle, the long-time editor-in-chief of People, who announced his departure Wednesday. Cagle was said to have been feeling crimped by the magazine’s new owner, Meredith, a Midwestern...
Hearst Names Entertainment Directors to Work on Magazines
New York Post: Hearst is staffing two new entertainment directors at its magazines. Andrea Cuttler, once a booker at “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” will join Harper’s Bazaar, working with top editor Glenda Bailey. Meanwhile, Maxwell Losgar will work with Jessica Pels...
Report: Media Job Cuts Rise as Sector Retrenchment Persists
The Information: Media job cuts rose in February, driven by reductions at news publishers and video game maker Activision Blizzard, as retrenchment in the sector persisted for a second month in 2019 and extended last year’s run of industry cutbacks. In total, 1,530...
AT&T Looks to ‘Retire’ Turner Brand Name from WarnerMedia
NBC News: For nearly 50 years, Ted Turner and the Turner brand have been integral parts of the nation’s media industry. But that’s changing in the wake of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, as a WarnerMedia spokesman confirmed that the Turner brand will likely soon be...
Fox Says ‘America is Watching’ News Channel Amid Scandals
The Drum: Fox News has released the "America is Watching" slogan to win back advertisers concerned by the tone of its reporting amid ongoing scandals surrounding hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro. The broadcaster has been battling to see off boycott...
Comcast’s NBC, CBS Agree to Big Switcharoo in Super Bowls
New York Post: NBC and CBS Sports are swapping Super Bowl years. CBS will move up a year in the Super Bowl rotation and broadcast the game played at the end of the 2020-21 season, while NBC will drop back to take the 2021-22 Super...
MGM Expat Forms New Studio from Remains of Weinstein Co
Los Angeles Times: Former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios CEO Gary Barber has a new job. The veteran exec has teamed with Lantern Entertainment, which bought the assets of the defunct Weinstein Co. last year, to create a new company, Spyglass Media Group, the companies...
Hollywood Writers Mull Firing Agents En Masse Over Tactics
Los Angeles Times: Hollywood writers’ concerns have grown so acute that the Writers Guild of America has taken the unprecedented step of asking its thousands of members to fire their agents if they don’t agree to a new code of conduct that would effectively end the...
Netflix Says Subscribers Watch Average of Two Hours a Day
Business Insider: The average Netflix subscriber spends two hours a day on the service, Netflix's VP of original content, Cindy Holland, said earlier this week. That's the same amount of time as adults ages 18 to 34 spend watching live and time-shifted TV, according...