We’ve now “won” the Iran war at least 10 times, which technically means Trump has won more wars than any president in history.

Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Wow, is this what he looks like now?

Motion Filed – #2169575 in Media Matters for America v. FTC (D.C. Cir., 25-5302) – CourtListener.com MOTION [2169575] to dismiss case voluntarily filed by FTC, Andrew N. Ferguson, Mark R. Meador, John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 (Service Date: 04/20/2026 by CM/ECF NDA) Length Certification: 603. [25-5302] (...

The FTC is dropping its appeal in the Media Matters case. They've withdrawn the civil investigative demand that is at the heart of the dispute (and presumably also want to avoid a D.C. Circuit decision). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster | TechCrunch Runway’s CEO says AI could help studios make dozens of films for the cost of one, betting volume will boost hit-making odds.

Much of the anti-AI panic in Hollywood is rooted in the belief that lower production costs will inevitably lead to fewer jobs. The logic is straightforward: if a company like The Walt Disney Company no longer needs to employ an army of VFX artists to produce a Marvel film, it will simply scale back

I see these people walking around all the time, and they're doing absolutely nothing. Huge waste of taxpayer money and also a daily symbol of the city's lack of representation and sovereignty.

How Netflix made us fall in love with K-dramas Korean TV shows outperform other sources of entertainment on the service — and we’re not just talking Squid Game.

The Verge dives deep into the international success of Netflix’s Korean content. While Squidgame is obviously the most famous Korean show on the platform, it’s not the only one to break out.

It’s probably not a coincidence that the Korean film Parasite was the first non-English best picture winner

Car Owners Are Revolting Over Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises An international backlash is growing over outdated Tesla hardware.

It’s incredible that Elon Musk has been announcing self-driving vaporware for at least a decade and people are still falling for it.

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How 8 Episodes A Year Built One Of Podcasting’s Most Expensive Advertising Inventories Acquired, the business history podcast hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, lists its Fall 2029 presenting sponsorship at $6.5 million. Seasons through Fall 2027 are fully sold out, and presenti...

The Acquired podcast only publishes eight episodes per year — four in the spring and four in the fall — and only sells two sponsorship slots per episode, one presenting and the other midroll. What’s more, it requires a brand to sponsor an entire season, which means there are only two sponsorship sl

Why People Who Listen to Podcasts Are Suddenly Feeling Left Out The industry’s aggressive embrace of video is leaving audio fans confused.

I understand why most of the podcast industry has expanded into video and have been a pretty big advocate for it. But any good podcast host will be constantly alert as to what their audience-only audience can’t see. Whenever I’m conducting an interview for my own podcast and the guest makes a refere

AI answer engine drives more effective advertising at Reach and Independent Taboola’s AI search engine Deeper Dive is being used by up to one in six users on publisher websites that have rolled it out.

People like to deride Taboola as a “chumbox” platform — making fun of the clickbaity posts that sometimes appear in its article recommendation widget — but I actually think it’s an incredibly innovative company that solved the chief problem facing web publishers: display ads suck and nobody clicks

This company is rewiring the economics of TV advertising YouTube video by Simon Owens

This company is rewiring the economics of TV advertising

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PSA: If you're being interviewed on a podcast at least once a year, you should probably just spend the $50 on a decent podcast mic. You'll vastly increase your chances of listeners making it all the way to the end of your interview.

The Bottom Line has a good overview of how small presses are experimenting with subscription strategies, which mostly consist of sending books out on a regular cadence to paid members.

Here’s an idea: what if a publisher leveraged a newsletter platform like Substack or Beehiiv to serialize books o

If there's anything we've learned in the last year, it's that stock traders are extremely gullible. Even if there is an end to the Iran war, shouldn't they price in the fact that the guy who started the Iran war is still in power and will likely engage in other market-disrupting behavior?

NBC News Now Expands to 14 Live Hours a Day, Sets New Show With Christine Romans Additionally, streaming video news channel NBC News Now will soon move its headquarters to Studio 3A at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

NBC’s approach to streaming news has always puzzled me.

Back in 2024, my in-laws were visiting during election week. Knowing they’d want to watch the results live, I subscribed to Peacock assuming it would stream MSNBC, given how significant the night was. I was wrong. There was barely any MSNBC co

Could Jomboy Change the Way You Watch Baseball? Major League Baseball, in the hope of expanding the game’s appeal and reaching younger fans, bought a stake in the popular media company Jomboy. Is it working?

The New Yorker profiled Jomboy, a sports-focused YouTube channel that’s now generating over $20 million a year and attracted MLB as an investor.

The piece points out that the MLB is making a more concerted effort to collaborate with creators in an effort to attract a new generation of fans. Game a

I met the woman who livestreams her life and it shook me | CNN She’s just slightly more online than we are, Donie O’Sullivan finds out.

Every time I read about a famous Twitch streamer, it always strikes me how grueling that career is. Obviously, Emilycc represents the extreme, but even mainstream Twitch stars are known to live stream for upwards of 14 hours a day and claim that any efforts to reduce streaming time would result in l

Can the traditional British tabloid survive the digital age? Social media feeds, AI summaries and influencer-driven content are luring readers away

The Financial Times published a deep dive into the UK tabloid industry, which has been hit particularly hard by the decline in platform-driven traffic.

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Should I bring this full circle and write about this incident in my media newsletter?

How a yoga teacher turned bedtime stories into a media empire YouTube video by Simon Owens

How a yoga teacher turned bedtime stories into a media empire

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The web software I use to record my podcasts (Descript) is just refusing to export videos today so the one main task I had planned for today I can’t even do. Fun!

X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts | TechCrunch X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier.

As a reminder, Nieman Lab published a report just last week showing that news aggregators that don’t include links significantly outperform the Twitter accounts of the actual news organizations that regularly break news. It’s unclear if this announcement came as a result of that report.

Daily newsletter is Telegraph’s 'biggest source of subscribers' one year after launch From the Editor, The Telegraph’s flagship daily newsletter, has become its “most relevant source" of subscribers one year after launch.

I’m consistently surprised by how many publishers simply treat their newsletters as glorified RSS feeds, in that they simply use them to link to website articles. By placing more content within the newsletter itself, you can drive up both signups AND open rates, and that improves so many downstream

The Federal Government’s Case Against the NFL The NFL is the most popular sport in the US. The government says it’s hurting fans.

Bloomberg reports on how the content budgets of most major media conglomerates are buckling under the weight of NFL broadcast rights.

I can’t help but wonder if media companies are falling into a sunk cost trap in how they negotiate with the NFL and other sports leagues. NFL games may be hugely pop

Exclusive | FTC in Settlement Talks With Ad Companies in Boycott Probe The government began an inquiry last year into whether ad firms were funneling client dollars away from certain media platforms.

To recap: Musk donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Republicans. A Republican-led FTC then opened an “investigation” into the advertising firms that steered clear of Twitter because of its newly-relaxed content moderation. Then these firms — despite not a shred of evidence being released that

Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Child Influencers In her book 'Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online' journalist Fortesa Latifi gets deep into the booming industry.

“There’s crazy, crazy amounts of money ... Being a family influencer is the best because as the mom, you can do everything, right? You can do fashion, you can do home goods, you can do all the kids’ foods. All foods, all foods basically you can touch. You can do kitchen appliances, you can do furnit

Puck reports that Disney hired a defamation lawyer who’s represented Trump and other various dirtbags to go after a journalist writing a book about Bob Iger.

It’s pretty hypocritical for a company that owns multiple journalistic institutions to go after a journalist who’s merely doing his job. My g

An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.

A lot of people like to quip that the New York Times is a games company that happens to subsidize a news outlet, but I’ve always found that to be lazy analysis. The reason that the outlet has been more successful than virtually any other media company is that it recognized that news ebbs and flows,

Daily Beast makes subscriptions 'core focus' of revenue growth The Daily Beast saw double-digit percentage website subscriptions growth year on year in 2025. It also launched subs on Substack and Youtube.

Wow. According to Press Gazette, the Daily Beast surpassed 100,000 paid subscribers, which is an incredibly tough milestone to crack, especially for a publication with such a small staff — I doubt it has more than a few dozen people on its editorial team.