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Amazon’s advertising business is surging amid industry-wide ad sales boom for tech giants

GeekWire

Amazon’s advertising business continue to grow rapidly as it is now one of the company’s key sources of revenue. Perhaps more importantly, advertising is a high-margin business, helping boost Amazon’s profits that grew to $7.8 (GeekWire Photo). The 87% growth rate is notable; that rate in the year-ago quarter was 41%.

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Bait and Twitch

The Verge

It’s part of the site’s culture to play music in the background of streams, and no one really checks for the appropriate licenses. Even so, some clips with copyrighted music would still make it through Twitch’s filter because using music in streams without a license is endemic to the culture of streaming.

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Amazon Music will offer My Favorite Murder episodes a week early

The Verge

Two things stick out to me here: one is the week-long timeframe, particularly in comparison to Spotify, which signed deals with Call Her Daddy and Armchair Expert over the past year and immediately shuffled them behind the platform’s wall. Amazon wants to get more brands to advertise on its platform. Speaking of Amazon’s ad ambitions….

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Ranking and comparing the world’s top 20 startup hubs

Trends in the Living Networks

This is considerably better data than the first round, in particular in providing richer comparisons of the differences between the cities in how the startup scene is structured. Revenue models are distinctive, with considerably more focus on transaction and license fees rather than subscription or advertising.

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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

or Citroën C1 that come slathered in external advertising. Signing up isn’t exactly frictionless though, as you have to upload a valid driver’s license and photo, enter payment details, and pass both credit and identity checks. At the moment, Lynk & Co only accepts category B drivers licenses from a list of 30 European countries.

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Gaming opportunities for investors in 2023: Generative AI, low-code, metaverse, and more

GeekWire

PitchBook, by comparison, estimates the overall market for gaming to be $447.3 Free-to-play games’ audience share expanded rapidly in 2022, which has led to a new wave of interest and investment in in-game advertising methods. billion industry. billion as of 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of 5.9%.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Their results demonstrate that using CC and social features derived from interaction records and network structure yields substantially improved prediction in comparison to using conventional classification and user profile features only. Then find how much is addressable advertising already doing it. Then offer to those groups.

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