The NBA is finalizing media rights deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon later this week, per Sports Business Journal (sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/…).

2024-25 will be officially the last season for “Inside the NBA” on TNT with Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal.

Vivek Ramaswamy has taken an activist stake in....Buzzfeed sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

Latestt podcast episode. Mark Stenberg gives me the inside scoop on #upfronts week.

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Washington Post CEO Will Lewis is introing the paper’s new “Build It” plan today. In a meeting with staff, he noted that the paper lost $77 million over the past year, and saw a 50% drop off in audience since 2020: “To be direct, we are in a hole, and we have been for some time.'

What is your favorite Inside the NBA moment of all-time?

I’ll start. 😂

New: Pinterest has partnered with the Dotdash Meredith brand Real Simple to create a shoppable magazine.

The tie-up is the latest example of how the logic of retail media is influencing digital media.

For @ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/real-sim…

New: Politico unveiled its first consumer registration wall Wednesday, part of a broader effort to gather more information about its audience.

Readers will initially be able to read 10 articles before having to provide first-party data.

For @ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/politico…

New: Politico unveiled its first consumer registration wall Wednesday, part of a broader effort to gather more information about its audience.

Readers will initially be able to read 10 articles before having to provide first-party data.

For @ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/politico…

Breaking: Longtime Condè Nast CRO Pamela Drucker Mann is stepping down from her post after 19 years with the company.

For ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/conde-na…

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NEW: AdalyticsHQ finds that Colossus SSP consistently misrepresents user IDs in ad auctions. The mismatch could be due to an effort to bridge IDs across different environments – but some say that something more nefarious may be at play. My story The Drum: thedrum.com/news/2024/05/1…

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Good look at the carrots OpenAI is offering publishers ($, preferred placement, more prominent links in results etc). No need to explain what the stick is.

Gannett fires an editor for talking to Poynter’s Rick Edmonds:

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Exclusive: @ViceMedia will create a JV to relaunch its digital properties, including Vice.com, Munchies, Motherboard, and Noisey.
Savage Ventures will invest 'tens of millions of dollars' into the JV
More on Axios
axios.com/2024/05/09/vic…

The idea of audiences seeking out publishers' homepages is a nice one, but there's little to suggest it's likely to happen to a meaningful extent for the majority of publishers (other than publishers saying it will.)

SCOOP: An OpenAI pitch deck obtained by ADWEEK reveals the details of its Preferred Publisher Program.

The AI firm has courted publishers, like Dotdash Meredith, to partner by promising payment and greater visibility in search results.

For @ADWEEK: adweek.com/media/openai-p…

Refinery29 sold to Vice Media at a $400M valuation in 2019. It sold to Sundial last month for around $30M. It wasn’t profitable then but it is now. Sign of the times.