If you think this year is going to be big for streaming and the entertainment industry, you ain’t seen nothing yet. That’s the argument put forward by this week’s guest, Tom Merritt. He explains, convincingly, that a variety of deal deadlines mean that some big decisions will have to be made early next year and […]
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Super Bowl LVII and Rihanna’s Apple Music half time show didn’t disappoint. On the field, Patrick Mahomes’s Kansas City Chiefs saw off Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. The superstar singer’s performance was spectacular too as she player her biggest and also revealed she is pregnant! If you missed any of it, the whole
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It’s been a pretty horrendous week of news. In the UK, there is the ongoing search for Nicola Bulley, the murder of Epsom college’s head teacher Emma Pattison and her daughter Lettie, assumed to be by her husband who also took his own life, and the imprisonment of a former Met police officer for a
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Many of us take watching the latest hit Netflix series for granted. But how do you enjoy such content if you’re blind? Steven Scott from “Double Tap” joins the show to discuss the various accessibility features that services make available to help with this. He also highlights their varying quality. First, the show goes back
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I appeared on an episode of the “DoubleTap” show, which aired on Monday. “DoubleTap” is a programme from Canadian broadcaster AMI that aims to help blind people get the most out of their tech, making sure it is working for them. On this edition, I chatted to host Steven Scott about Online Safety Bill, which
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Peter Houston, of Media Voices fame, and his partner Joanna are taking their love for the indie magazine world one step further and launching their own title – Grub Street Journal. It will be aimed at “people who make magazines”. Seems like a crazy idea, right? Peter joins “The Addition Podcast” to explain why on Earth they
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The BBC announced its lead presenter line-up for a new look, soon-to-be-launched, news channel on Tuesday. As first reported in The Addition newsletter, there are five lead presenters in total. They are: Two on-air presenting roles in Washington DC will be announced in the near future. In a statement, Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News,
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A new YouTube shorts monetisation programme went live on February 1, 2023, as part of a bid to lure creators and viewers to the platform and away from competition TikTok. The scheme is based on a new revenue share model because adverts are inserted as users scroll through the short-form videos from a range of
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Big-name glossy magazines still attract plenty of attention, even if newsstand numbers are dwindling. The truth is, many people engage with a magazine brand despite rarely/never picking up a print copy. As I’ve said before, I personally really enjoy settling down with a print magazine one after a day staring at a screen. The world
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It has been a while since we caught up with the Murdoch Roy family. Surely in that time they’ve all made their peace with one another and are happily running their mega-corporation together? Not according to the “Succession” season 4 trailer that just dropped. From what we can tell, the kids are still warring with
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