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Roku OS Home Screen Is Getting Video Ads For The First time

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Ars Technica reports: “Roku CEO Anthony Wood disclosed plans to introduce video ads to the Roku OS home screen. The news highlights Roku’s growing focus on advertising and an alarming trend in the streaming industry that sees ads increasingly forced on viewers. As spotted by The Streamable, during Roku’s Q1 2024 earnings call last week, Wood, also the company’s founder and chairman, boasted about the Roku OS home screen showing users ads “before they select an app,” avoiding the possibility that they don’t see any ads during their TV-viewing session.”

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Sui Blockchain And Google Cloud Team Up To Drive Web3 Innovation

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GamesBeat reports: “Sui, the Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform initiated by Mysten Labs, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to advance Web3 innovation. Headed by the core research team behind Facebook’s Libra and Diem projects, Sui said that it will partner with Google on addressing key challenges in the Web3 landscape, including security, scalability, developer tools and user experiences.”

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TikTok And CTS Eventim Announce Global Ticketing Partnership

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Access All Areas reports: “TikTok and pan-European ticketing agent, promoter and venue operator CTS Eventim have announced they are partnering to enable artists to promote their live dates in their TikTok videos and sell tickets via CTS Eventim. The deal will see fans able to discover and buy concert tickets directly from the artist’s posts within the TikTok platform.”

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NIST Announces New Initiative To Create Systems That Can Detect AI-Generated Content

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silicon ANGLE reports: “The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced it’s launching a new initiative called NIST GenAI aimed at assessing generative artificial intelligence models and create systems that can identify AI=created text, images and videos. The launch of the new program came as NIST revealed its first draft publications on AI risks and standards.”

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Spotify’s Getting Serious About Its Enterprise And Dev Tools Business Play

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TechCrunch reports: “You know that mildly jarring experience whenever that well-known celebrity shows up in an entirely different context — e.g. a musician making a horror flick cameo; an NFL player rearing their head in a comedy series; or a Hollywood movie icon selling mobile phone plans on TV? Well, it’s starting to feel like that with Spotify’s foray into the enterprise and developer tooling space — nothing wrong with it per se, but it makes you flinch just a little due to its divergence from the norm.”

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Peacock Is Raising Subscription Prices Again

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CNET reports: “Peacock’s streaming subscription plans are about to cost a little more. The NBCUniversal brand is increasing the prices on its monthly and annual plans, with changes going into effect this summer. The news comes after parent company Comcast announced that the streaming platform added 3 million new paid subscribers in the first quarter of 2024.”

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Warner Chappell & BandLab Technologies Ink Partnership Deal, Aim To ‘Amplify The Voices Of Promising, Up-And-Coming Talent’

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Digital Music News reports: “The Warner Music-owned publisher and Caldecott Music Group’s BandLab Technologies reached out today with word of their “groundbreaking” union. As described by the companies, Warner Chappell is set to handle administration for ReverbNation creators enrolled in a “new ReverbNation Publishing Administration program.”

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Web3 Game Startup GFAL Raises $3.3M From Supercell And Mitch Lasky

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GamesBeat reports: “Web3 game startup GFAL has raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round from investors including Supercell and Mitch Lasky among others. Barcelona-based GFAL has done a soft launch of its mobile game Elemental Raiders and it is steadily growing the Web3 game’s audience. The $3.2 million seed funding round adds to the $4.4 million in capital GFAL raised from the successful launch of its $GFAL token back in Q1 2023.”

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Fox, Disney, Warner Will Tap Streaming Sports Venture In TV Upfront

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Variety reports: “The three media companies planning to launch a much-scrutinized sports streamer later this year are set to give advertisers a sneak peek at the new outlet. Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to use their new streaming joint-venture — the official name of the video hub has yet to be announced — to boost the impressions they have to sell to Madison Avenue during the industry’s annual “upfront” market, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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Fortnite Was The Highest Revenue Earner In March Across Six Markets | Newzoo Charts

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Games Industry Biz reports: “Epic Game’s battle royale, Fortnite, led Newzoo’s revenue and user engagement charts for March. This is according to the research firm’s March monthly engagement and revenue charts for games across the PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. The data now covers the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy markets. Fortnite continues to have the most monthly active users (MAU) it did in February. Last month, the third-person shooter was also second in consumer revenue.”

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