French media professionals are taking a stand in a column signed by more than 1,100 journalists and personalities accusing Google of flouting the law, a debatable fact , and are demanding a counter-attack from the public authorities. France files a complaint against Google with the competition authority .
Info – CNN launches a news aggregation gambling data china service to compete with Apple and Facebook News . Amazon also launches its news channel with other people’s content! And LinkedIn now has an editorial staff of over 65 journalists .
Streaming – Netflix raises $2.2 billion in bonds (bringing its debt to $14 billion) to face the arrival of big competitors Disney +, Apple TV +, HBO Max and Peacock. Rakuten launches its AVOD service in 40 countries in Europe and Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky acquires a stake in German media group ProSiebenSat1. At the same time, the BBC is losing its young audience , warns the British regulator.
Production companies – French Banijay set to buy Dutch reality TV giant Endemolshine for two billion euros.
3 FIGURES
625 million – this is the number of monthly active users of TikTok worldwide, 4 million in France
$11 billion has been invested in AI marketing companies since 2014
$35 billion – that’s the amount of fine Facebook is expected to pay for illegally using facial recognition data from 7 million Illinois users
CHART OF THE WEEK .
How to Reduce Your CPC (Cost-Per-Click) in PPC Advertising
-
- Posts: 347
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:21 am