This Week's News - Media

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Media

• Large milestone for streaming  The Oscars will stream live for the very first time on Hulu (Engadget)

• “In a three-page letter sent to UK ministers this week, the Copyright Alliance…set out its “strong opposition to the introduction of AI exceptions” to copyright rules” activity  US media groups warn UK over AI content-scraping rules (Financial Times)

• OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora is open to the public to mixed reviews  Sora’s AI video revolution is still a ways off (The Verge)
• The claim is for the first LLM trained on open non-copyrighted data  They Said It Couldn’t Be Done (Hugging Face)
• Claim is to help advertisers avoid advertising on AI “slop”  DoubleVerify launches GenAI protection (Advanced Television)
• The focus on the sports use case again confirms the importance of the genre to the streaming industry  Coming to CES: Nielsen Offers New Way to Find Live Sports on TV and Streaming Video (Variety)
• Latest creative pushback against AI  Writers Guild demands studios stop tech companies from training AI on their work (Los Angeles Times $)
• It was good for Netflix now it’s good for Disney  Disney’s New Password Sharing Approach Is “Working Out Well For Us”, CFO Hugh Johnston Says (Deadline)
• Google gets into the XR platform market  Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses (Google)
• The market for shiny discs continues to be challenging   LG dumps Blu-ray players (Advanced Television)
• Streaming numbers
• Ampere: streaming subscriptions to pass 2 billion by 2029 (TVB Europe)
• “...in 2025 linear TV revenue will decline by 3.4 percent. Streaming TV revenue, on the other hand, will grow by 19.3 percent”  Global Advertising Revenue Is Recovering — Except for Linear TV (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Streaming Hits Another High in November as Overall TV Use Climbs (The Hollywood Reporter)
• YouTube tops 1bn daily TV hours (Advanced Television)
• Forecast: Streaming bundles to gain traction in 2025 (Advanced Television)
• 21% Of Ad-Option Streaming Is Programmatic, Just 2% For Live Content (MediaPost)
• This week’s Web3 highs and lows
• Magic Eden airdrops ME token to NFT users across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Polygon ecosystems (The Block)
• Pudgy Penguins overtakes BAYC as second-largest NFT collection by market cap (The Block)
• Ubisoft Sets Launch for ‘Captain Laserhawk’ Game as Free NFT Mint Begins (GG)

Miscellaneous

• One of these is a beer company  Companies in Mexico embrace AI to resurrect the dead (Rest of World)
• One example of how AI is being misused  ElevenLabs’ AI voice generation ‘very likely’ used in a Russian influence operation (TechCrunch)
• And it was not a positive experience  I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies (404 Media)
• Yet another type of AI slop  Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI (The Register)
• Not quite a hack but…  Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam (404 Media)

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