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Netflix Expands Dubbing And Subtitling Availability

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Broadband TV News reports: “Netflix is making it possible for subscribers to access a full list of available content when watching the platform on TV. The streamer says it has received several thousand language availability requests per month and extends a feature already available on mobile devices and web browsers. Almost a third of viewing on Netflix is to non-English stories. The full catalogue includes a wide variety of TV shows and movies in over 30 languages.”

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Futureverse Teams With Story In Web3 Technology Deal

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GamesBeat reports: “Futureverse, a AI and metaverse technology company, has signed a memorandum of understanding to do an intellectual property deal with Web3 firm PIP Labs, the core contributor to Story. This strategic partnership will focus on integrating Futureverse’s technology and extensive IP portfolio along with The Root Network to Story.”

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Spotify Opens The Programmatic Floodgates With Ad Exchange Launch

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Adweek reports: “Spotify unveiled a sweeping plan to make its advertising business more accessible. It will roll out its first programmatic ad exchange, expand creative automation, and deepen measurement tools while opening its platform more broadly to advertisers. The announcements were shared during Spotify’s version of an Upfront, called Advance, on April 2.”

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Voice AI Platform Phonic Gets Backing From Lux

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TechCrunch reports: “The quality of AI-generated voices is good enough for things like creating audiobooks and podcasts, having articles read aloud to you, and basic customer support. But many businesses don’t think AI voice tech is quite reliable enough to deploy. That’s why two MIT grads, Moin Nadeem and Nikhil Murthy (pictured above), founded Phonic, a company offering an end-to-end voice stack to increase synthetic voice reliability while decreasing latency.”

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Creator-Driven Media Firm Mad Realities Inks With CAA To Plot Expansion

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The Hollywood Reporter reports: “Social media-first TV network Mad Realities has signed with CAA. The media platform has a business model where it quickly produces and distributes short-form series on Internet platforms like TikTok and Instagram that consumer brands can tap into.”

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AI Film And Animation Startup Runway Raises $308 Million In Funding, Valuing It At $3 Billion

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Variety reports: “Generative AI startup Runway announced $308 million in a new round of funding, which the company said will fund expansion of its film and animation studio. The Series D round of funding was led by General Atlantic with participation from Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Nvidia, SoftBank and other new and existing investors.”

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Comcast Technology Solutions Launches Comcast Media360

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Broadband TV News reports: “Comcast has announced a new service designed to consolidate workflows and lower costs of distributing premium titles across content owners’ direct-to-consumer sites/apps and distribution partners. Comcast Media360 has been designed to counter a world that has become increasingly complex through the addition of both internal and external systems all attempting to reach an increasing number of platforms.”

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Discord Says 1st Year Of Quests Generated 70 Campaigns And Millions Of Gamer Rewards

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GamesBeat reports: “Discord announced that its first year of Quests generated 70 campaigns with advertising partners and millions of rewards that kept gamers engaged. Speaking at the ad-focused IAB Playfronts event, Peter Sellis, senior vice president of product at Discord, said that, in the first year of Quests, Discord had found a way to make game discovery and engagement better.”

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Patreon Signs Podcast Partnerships With Sony And Wondery

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TechCrunch reports: “Patreon, a subscription platform for online creators, is ge has signed podcasting partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment and Amazon’s Wondery, the company announced on Wednesday. Patreon says the partnerships are designed to make the site a home to fan engagement and exclusive perks for shows from major podcast networks, as the company looks to expand beyond its current base of podcasts.”

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LSE Partners With Anthropic To Shape The Future of AI In Education

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LSE reports: “LSE has announced a new partnership with leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety and research company Anthropic, to provide all LSE students with access to its ‘Claude’ AI technology. From next month, LSE students will have free access to Anthropic’s ‘Claude for Education’, a version of their state-of-the-art AI assistant designed for higher education use, which helps students by guiding their reasoning process, rather than simply providing answers.”

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