Disney Channel, looking to drive young viewers to digital destinations in the last weeks of summer vacation, is launching a block of 12 short-form movies on its ad-supported online... More
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Disney Channel ‘Free Period’: 12 Short-Form Movies Launch Online (Variety)
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft Back EU Hate Speech Rules (Reuters)
EU governments have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following the refugee crisis and terror attacks, with some even threa... More
Audio Fingerprinting Being Used to Track Web Users, Study Finds (TechCrunch)
A wide-scale study of online trackers carried out by researchers at Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try to strip web users of their privacy, as we... More
Finally, The Internet Stops Pretending To Be TV (IBT)
Previous years’ NewFronts had mostly hewed to the same format as the presentations TV networks give during their “upfronts” week in May: A large group of media buyers are ass... More
Web Video Redefines Itself as TV to Win Bigger Slice of Ad Pie (Bloomberg)
With their sights set on a $63 billion TV advertising market, streaming-video services like Hulu and Crackle are now defining themselves as TV networks, arguing they’re just as p... More
Internet Powers Open Up Their Wallets (BloombergGadfly)
The tech superpowers don't disclose exactly where their capital expenditures go, but it is clear that buying and maintaining their gigantic computing networks represent a big chunk... More