There’s a new 45 second spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which premiered tonight during some kind of sport ball game, but which is lucky also available on the internet so you can just watch it above. This doesn’t provide too much more compared to what we’ve seen in the longer spots, but it does give you a few all new clips, and it ends with a line from Luke that sounds like… Read More
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Periscope ups payouts to broadcasters on sales of Super Hearts, adds holiday bonuses
Twitter’s Periscope is going after live broadcasters in a big way, as it’s now promising to give back more of their earnings from the sales of Super Hearts in their live video streams.
Introduced in June, Super Hearts are in-app virtual goods that offer a form of virtual tipping.
The idea is similar to Twitch’s or YouTube’s emotes, but instead of custom emoji… Read More
Shoppable video startup Cinematique has a new CEO and $1.4M in new funding
Cinematique has a new CEO — investor and entrepreneur Paul Dawalibi. The startup describes its product as enabling “touchable video.” In other words, when you’re watching a Cinematique-powered video, you can tap or click on different items to save them and learn more later, and in some cases buy the featured product. Dawalibi (whose long résumé includes a stint as VC… Read More
‘House of Cards’ production halted ‘until further notice’ in response to Kevin Spacey allegations
The fallout from allegations around House of Cards star Kevin Spacey continues. Netflix and production company Media Rights Capital say that they’ve actually halted production on the show: “MRC and Netflix have decided to suspend production on HOUSE OF CARDS season six, until further notice, to give us time to review the current situation and to address any concerns of our cast… Read More
Yes, Laura Ingraham, Trump loyalists, and everybody else are living on separate planets
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You have to hand it to Laura Ingraham. When she’s right, she’s right.
Ingraham, a longtime conservative commentator who has firmly attached herself to the pro-Trump cause, on Monday offered her perspective on the indictments of former Donald Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates, as well as the surprise guilty plea from a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
“And the idea that this is a bad day for Trump because it in any way alludes to a collusion with Russia, you’ve got to be living on another planet if you think that,” Ingraham said on her radio show. Read more…
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Yes, Laura Ingraham, Trump loyalists, and everybody else are living on separate planets
You have to hand it to Laura Ingraham. When she’s right, she’s right.
Ingraham, a longtime conservative commentator who has firmly attached herself to the pro-Trump cause, on Monday offered her perspective on the indictments of former Donald Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates, as well as the surprise guilty plea from a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
“And the idea that this is a bad day for Trump because it in any way alludes to a collusion with Russia, you’ve got to be living on another planet if you think that,” Ingraham said on her radio show. Read more…
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Nielsen will use Gracenote’s smart TV data for ad targeting
Nielsen is expanding its Marketing Cloud by plugging in smart TV viewership data from Gracenote. Kelly Abcarian, senior vice president of product leadership at Nielsen, explained that the goal is to bring “person-level television data” to digital marketing and “bring the scale to a whole new level.” In other words, advertisers using the Nielsen Marketing Cloud will be… Read More
‘House of Cards’ will end after season six, Netflix ‘deeply troubled’ by Kevin Spacey allegations
Netflix announced today that House of Cards will end after its next season. The news comes after actor Anthony Rapp told BuzzFeed that House of Cards star Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward him when Rapp was only 14. However, TVLine reports that the decision was not a response to Rapp’s allegations, and in fact was made months ago. After Rapp went public, Spacey responded,… Read More