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Meta launches generative AI tools in its Advantage suite for advertisers and agencies at Cannes, including to turn still images into videos and Virtual Try-On (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/meta…

Meta’s Advantage+ Adds Gen AI Tools for Advertisers and Agencies
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video.

Lionsgate and DirecTV plan to launch Lionsgate Collection, a premium channel for DirecTV subscribers with the studio's 20K title film and TV library (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/lionsgate-direc…

Lionsgate & DirecTV Launch Lionsgate Collection Premium Channel
Lionsgate and DirecTV are firing up Lionsgate Collection, a premium channel for the latter's subscribers which will draw upon the studio's 20,000-plus title film and TV library.

The BBC's annual report for 2025 shows that the corporation took an average of 119 days to resolve bullying and harassment complaints, up from 101 days in 2024 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-bullying-complaints-samir-shah-1236459090/…

BBC Taking Longer Than Ever To Resolve Bullying Complaints Amid Misconduct Crackdown
The BBC is taking longer than ever to resolve bullying and harassment complaints amid a crackdown on abuses of power at the corporation.

Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 plan to provide streaming ad space in one marketplace, letting advertisers run campaigns simultaneously, to combat Google and Meta (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Netflix says Netflix House, its in-person experience offering interactive activities, will open in Philadelphia and Dallas in late 2025 and in Las Vegas in 2027 (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts…

Sneak peek inside the Netflix House retail locations
Netflix will open two retail locations in the Philadelphia and Dallas areas later this year. On Tuesday, the streamer said a third location will open in Las Vegas in 2027.

William Langewiesche, who wrote complex, long-form articles for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair on national security, Iraq, and aviation, died of cancer at 70 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/business/media/william-lang…

William Langewiesche, the ‘Steve McQueen of Journalism,’ Dies at 70
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

Television City is partnering with Interwoven Studios to offer production services to social media influencers in LA, amid a slump in film and TV production (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

How TV City, a Major L.A. Soundstage Owner, Hopes to Weather a Filming Slump: Bring In Influencers
Owner Hackman Capital Partners has partnered with Interwoven Studios to welcome influencers into its soundstages. It's already hosted big-names like Logan Paul, Jake Shane and FaZe Clan.

Peacock will raise prices by $3 per month for new users starting July 23 and test a $7.99/month ad-supported "Select" tier without sports and some other content (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/peacock-price-increase-2025.html

Peacock Is Hiking Prices More Than It Ever Has Before
Peacock is raising prices — by nearly 40 percent on its ad-supported plan and 20 percent on its ad-free plan. The streamer now has the most expensive ad-supported tier on the market.