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Say goodbye to your favorite podcast promo codes

The Verge

That’s why Adam McNeil, PR manager at the company, says he went from spending $3,000 per month on podcast ads at the beginning of this year to between $25,000 and $30,000 by the end. McNeil is one of many direct response advertisers who’ve found a home in podcasting. It’s become our number one revenue source,” he says.

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Amazon, Uber, and Lyft sue seller over rogue rideshare signs — here’s what he says in response

GeekWire

The companies sued Gary Hutton of Torrance, Calif., and his company, Huttronics LLC, in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday on claims of trademark infringement, false advertising, and violations of the Washington Consumer Protection Act — seeking an injunction and financial damages.

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Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

GeekWire

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here’s how the company defines each segment in its 10Q filing. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales.

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U.S. senators question Amazon about its use of palm-reading biometric data

GeekWire

New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is facing questions about how the company plans to use the data it gathers from its newly installed palm-reading scanners in some of the company’s retail outlets. 29 post on the company’s blog. How many third-party customers has Amazon sold (or licensed) Amazon One to?

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Amazon reveals ‘confidential’ podcast plan in mass email; shows must agree not to disparage Amazon

GeekWire

The company disclosed the plans on Monday in a mass email to podcast content producers, including journalists and media organizations that cover Amazon, declaring that the information about its podcast plans were “confidential” without following the standard practice of first securing their agreement to treat the message as confidential.

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Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

GeekWire

Most recently VP of product management at real estate company Compass, Prakash was previously an executive at Expedia-owned Egencia. The Seattle company closed its Series E round at a $2.3 Mowry was the longtime president of commercial satellite company Arianespace before joining Blue Origin in 2016. (Highspot Photos).

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ViacomCBS wants to prove to skeptics it finally understands streaming

The Verge

Those include Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, and both current and library programming from CBS. The latter is its ad-supported free streaming service that the company sees as straight advertising revenue play. One big difference that will separates ViacomCBS is how the company is thinking about its content.

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