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Emma Roth

Emma Roth

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    The unions of Hollywood are trying to save it from itself

    With both writers and actors on strike, the future of Hollywood is at stake.

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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Google lists “additional facts” to prove it’s not misleading video advertisers.

    The findings from Adalytics published last month suggested that Google broke its own rules on video ads by placing ads in small, muted video players on sites and letting them play on repeat.

    Now Google claims Adalytics used faulty methodology, citing third-party data showing video ads mostly run on YouTube, as promised, and not outside sites. It also claims the report “ignores or is unaware” that even if an ad is shown on another site, that doesn’t mean the advertiser was charged for it.

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    Emma Roth
    The Microsoft Store just got one more useful app.

    The password manager, 1Password, is now available on the Microsoft Store. While you could previously download the app for Windows from the 1Password website, this means more people can find it from Microsoft’s marketplace.

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    Emma Roth
    Bob Iger on writers’ strike: “It’s very disturbing to me.”

    In an interview with CNBC, the Disney CEO called the ongoing writers’ strike “disruptive,” and says it’s not helping the industry recover from the covid pandemic:

    There’s a level of expectation that they have, that is just not realistic. And they are adding to the set of the challenges that this business is already facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive.

    Hollywood writers have been on strike for over two months now, and they could soon be joined by actors across the industry as negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP falter.

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    Emma Roth
    Calm is coming to Spotify.

    The subscription-based meditation app is bringing some of its relaxing audio tracks to Spotify. While that includes free content from several of its shows, including Calm for Sleep, Calm for Stress & Anxiety, and Calm for Meditation, you’ll still need a Calm subscription to access all the tracks.

    Meditation apps like Calm rose in popularity during the covid-19 pandemic, but experienced a sharp dropoff in use last year. Bringing its content to Spotify might help expose the app and its services to a wider userbase as things slow down.