ICYMI The new entity will take McGraw-Hill’s name (without the hyphen). Cengage Unlimited full-access subscription model sold >1m subscriptions since starting in Aug. via @pubperspectives
Condé Nast, taking the sharpest aim at linear TV of any of the NewFrontspresenters thus far, styled itself as the “new primetime” destination for media buyers. “We’re the new Thursday night, and we’re always on,” declared Pamela Drucker Mann, chief revenue and marketing officer of Condé Nast. … sought to emphasize how the stable of brands like Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQand The New Yorker has replaced the traditional linear lions of the broadcast world.
This week Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines pledged to adopt the IAB Tech Lab’s proposed industry standard Data Transparency Label. The label will provide advertisers and buyers with four key sets of data: data solution provider information, audience snapshot, audience construction, and source information.
ICYMI RT @nycmedialab Voice is tech’s new Blue Ocean. Like web in ‘90s, voice penetrating industries from health care to publishing to gaming in novel+surprisingly fortuitous ways.This is an excellent roundup of voice’s meteoric rise and nascent potential
RT @nycmedialab When you ask Alexa to buy batteries, you only get 1 option: Amazon’s. Technology giants collect business voice data + use it to strengthen their products, further solidifying their positions. Businesses cannot own the voice tech they rely on.
RT @nycmedialab Memory Lane prototype voice app pieces together a highly detailed story of yr life that can be transcribed in book format. The motivation was to contribute to social sustainability-Stockholm being “one of the loneliest cities on the planet”
Google is always sponsoring weird and imaginative projects that use artificial intelligence. The latest is a digital photo booth that projects AI-generated poetry onto your face, like a very involved Instagram filter. Why not!
The fitness-streaming service Mirror just tapped Gwyneth Paltrow’s star trainer as its first content partner. Is this the future of no-excuses sweat sessions, or proof that “wellness” is spelled with two dollar signs?
RT @POCinPub Are you a woman or nonbinary author of color? Got a great debut manuscript?! Submit to the @feministpress Louise Meriwether First Book Prize! Submissions due June 28
HT @nycmedialab Broadway Tech Accelerator is a new program to advance early-stage startups in the live entertainment sector, provides in-depth training in product development, market fit, customer acquisition, and $140K in investment.
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