This Week's News - Media

October 25, 2024

A weekly newsletter mainly focused on streaming and Web3. If you find this interesting, I’d really appreciate it if you could share the love and pass it on to others who might enjoy it as well!

• Yet another major AI copyright infringement suit? Dow Jones and New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement (Variety)
• AI is getting significant pushback from the creator community
• Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning (The Guardian)

• Meet Hollywood’s AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Wall Street Journal $)

• Nicolas Cage Warns Actors That AI 'Wants to Take Your Instrument (R\Scene)

• Recent movements on detecting AI generated content
• Google SynthID Adding Invisible Watermarks to AI-Generated Content (Security Week)
• Yahoo, McAfee Team Up to Verify Authenticity of News Images (Variety)
• AI is poised to make D2C streaming dramatically easier and more effective, providing a range of tools and solutions that can optimize every aspect of the content experience”? How AI Is Changing the Game for Direct-to-Consumer Sports Offerings (TV Technology)
• Interesting that this is being considered streaming? Analysts warn switch to IP-only TV distribution could cost UK ￡2.1 billion (TVB Europe)
• More ways that AI is being integrated into the media ecosystem
• Paramount+ uses GenAI to curate new ‘Older Kids’ themed content collections (StreamTV Insider)
• Samsung offers personalized generative wallpaper on its TVs (Press Release)
• Vantiva integrates b<>com AI-powered SDR-HDR converter into STBs (Press Release)

• Streaming as a giveaway? Pad Thai, Spring Rolls and a Side of Peacock? Why Streamers Are Teaming Up With Delivery Apps (The Hollywood Reporter)
• “... the size of India’s piracy economy was INR 224 billion (€2.467bn) in 2023, ranking fourth against the segment wise revenue generated by India’s Media and Entertainment industry”? India: 51% access pirated content (Advanced Television)
• Streaming numbers
• Research: More US streaming subs opting for ad tiers (Advanced Television)
• Data: CTV takes 46% share of all ad views in Europe (Advanced Television)
• Germany: Pay-TV, SVoD revenues at €5.4bn in 2023 (Advanced Television)
• Japan Online Video Sector to Surge as Screen Industry Projected to Hit $34 Billion by 2029 (Variety)
• Amagi: Sports Viewing Spikes on FAST Channels (TV Technology)
• Research: SVoD ad-tier take up strong in Norway (Advanced Television)

• This week’s Web3 highs and lows?
• “Assassin’s Creed’ Maker Ubisoft Releases First Original NFT Game ‘Champions Tactics’ (GG)

Miscellaneous

• First time that Sotheby’s will sell an AI painting? Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's (The Art Newspaper)
• Not just for AI anymore? 41-million-digit prime crunched by datacenter GPUs (The Register)

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