Most Cord Cutters Spend Less Than $60 A Month On TV

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Cord Cutters News reports: “This month we saw Disney raise the prices of its streaming services at the same time DIRECTV raised the price of its TV service. Earlier this year Spectrum raised its price for the second time in 12 months. This renewed the debate: what is cheaper cable TV or cord cutting? So, exactly how much are cord cutters paying for streaming? We asked over 1,000 of our readers, and more than 52% told us that they pay $60 or less a month on streaming (with 46.7% of them paying $50 or less a month).”

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New Subscribers Taking Netflix Ads Tier But Disney Gets The Growth

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Broadband TV News reports: “Almost 60% of new subscribers to Netflix in Great Britain signed up to its ad tier in Q3 2023. The Kantar Entertainment on Demand (EoD) study is in line with the 5.1 million additions between July and September confirmed by the streamer in its financial results published last Thursday. Although the figures are ahead of forecasts it was still the smallest subscriber gain in more than a year.”

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Q3 Game M&A Strengthens For 4th Straight Quarter | Drake Star

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GamesBeat reports: “Gaming merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity increased for the 4th straight quarter during the September period with $2.5B in disclosed deal value and over $1 billions raised in private financings. Drake Star Partners reported in its quarterly gaming report that the market got a boost in part as public markets continued to recover, with the Drake Star Gaming Index of public game companies growing 10.2% for the first nine months of the year.”

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UnitedMasters Strikes Direct Licensing Deal With TikTok… As Clock Ticks Down On Merlin’s Agreement With ByteDance Platform

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Music Business Worldwide reports: “TikTok has announced that it has struck a multi-year direct deal with prominent indie artist services and distribution platform UnitedMasters. One interesting aspect of this story: UnitedMasters is a Merlin member. MBW understands that UnitedMasters was licensed through Merlin until this deal. The current blanket licensing deal between social media giant TikTok and independent music licensing group Merlin officially expires exactly one week from now, on October 31.”

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Open Access To Google’s AI Text Watermarking Tool May Help Advertisers Win Audience Trust

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The Drum reports: “In an effort to address growing concerns about the authenticity and proliferation of AI-generated content, Google on Wednesday announced that it will make its tech for watermarking AI-created text available to all developers. For advertisers and publishers – whose lifeblood in many ways depends on consumer trust – the change could prove particularly valuable.”

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Anthropic’s AI Can Now Run And Write Code

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TechCrunch reports: “Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically precise and reproducible answers.” With the tool enabled — it’s currently in preview — Claude can perform calculations and analyze data from files like spreadsheets and PDFs, rendering the results as interactive visualizations.”

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Fubo Launches Standalone Premium Subscription Services

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Broadband TV News reports: “Sports streaming service Fubo is launching new premium options from Paramount+, Showtime, NBA and FanDuel without the need for a basic subscription. The services will continue to be available in Fubo’s Pro base plan (FanDuel Sports Network) or as add-on channel packages (NBA League Pass, Paramount+ With Showtime).”

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Spotify Debuts An In-App Cover Art Maker For Playlists

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Engadget reports: “Spotify already lets you upload your own pics to use as playlist covers, but now it has launched a feature that gives you an easy, in-app way to customize them. The audio streaming service’s new Create Cover Art feature comes with a set of tools you can use to crop images in different shapes, such as hearts and stars, and then place them against backgrounds in the colors of your choice.”

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Netflix Shuts Down ‘AAA’ Gaming Studio, High-Profile Devs Leave The Company

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IGN reports: “Netflix has shut down its triple-A gaming studio set up in Southern California, leading to the exit of a number of high-profile developers from the company and sparking questions about its gaming ambitions. Game File broke the news that the studio, which had former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonn and veteran Halo creative director Joseph Staten on its books, is no more, and Sonn, Staten, and art director Rafael Grassetti, who was art director at God of War developer Sony Santa Monica before joining Netflix in spring 2023, have all left.”

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The Global View Of Gaming From A Huge External Development Firm | Gilles Langourieux Interview

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GamesBeat reports: “Founded in 2004, Virtuos has grown into a big company when it comes to the production of games. As an external developer, Virtuos’ team of 3,800 professional game devs can supplement the teams at game studios and publishers as they finish their games. The Singapore-based company has a big presence in Asia and it has worked with nearly all of the top 25 entertainment companies in the world, with either work on video or game content.”

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