#Newsfeed: Facebook to begin testing media paywall as soon as October; ‘Despacito’ becomes most streamed song of all time; Instagram tops cyber-bullying study
Plus why SoundCloud is worth saving.
After recent reports that Facebook is gearing up to allow news providers the ability to implement their subscriptions on the social media platform, the news has all but been confirmed today that paywalls may be in place as early as October. The feature appears to be built on top of Facebook’s Instant Articles, which aggregates stories from hundreds of publishers based on a reader’s interests and preferences. Campbell Brown, who heads up Facebook’s new partnerships business, explained at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit. In addition to steering readers to a publisher’s home page to consider taking out a digital subscription, Facebook plans to erect a paywall which would require readers to become subscribers of the platform after they’d accessed 10 articles.
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Instagram is now the worst social networking site for cyber bullying, according to a new study by British anti-bullying nonprofit group Ditch the Label. The survey over 10,000 British teens revealed that the photo-sharing site is where youth between 12 and 20 were targeted the most, accounting for 42% of cyberbullying, ahead of Facebook on 37%.
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Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit Despacito has become officially the most streamed song of all time, generated 4.6 billion streams globally across all major platforms in six months since January 13. The sales tally consist of the original version and the official remix featuring Justin Bieber, with Spotify contributing 1.1 billion plays and a further 3 billion generated by the official YouTube channels.
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- Facebook ‘Groups for Pages’ unlocks fan clubs [via TechCrunch]
- Facebook is throwing publishers a bone in the form of more performance data on Instant Articles [via Digiday]
- Facebook may begin testing a paywall for selected media stories as soon as October [via TechCrunch]
- Twitter will live-stream two days of FYF Fest performances this weekend [via Digital Trends]
- Is Twitter purposefully blocking certain accounts from becoming verified? [via The Next Web]
- James Van Der Beek Is Out-Diploing Diplo Via A New Diplo Twitter For Viceland’s Diplo Show [via Billboard]
- Instagram tops cyber-bullying study [via BBC]
- Amazon Launched an Instagram-Like Shoppable Social Feed for Prime Members [via Inc.]
- ‘Despacito’ becomes most streamed song of all time [via The Music Network]
- Music Publishers Helped Spotify Figure Out Royalties. Now, They’re Suing Them for Messing It Up. [via Digital Music News]
- Spotify Hit With Two New Music Publisher Lawsuits Alleging Unlicensed Use Of 2500+ Songs [via hypebot]
- SoundCloud is worth saving [via The Next Web]
- Lana Del Rey is not happy with people downloading the leak of her new album [via NME]
- Radiohead perform controversial show in Israel [via NME]
- How Spotify’s ‘Fake Artist’ Controversy Has Increased Tensions With Label Partners, Could Hurt Its Bottom Line [via Billboard]
- NBC has 30 employees working on a daily news show exclusively for Snapchat [via Recode]
- NASA is uploading hours of aerospace history on YouTube [via The Verge]
- Apple is secretly funding a legal battle against a rival [via Mashable]
- Google Search Embraces the Feed – but Don’t Call It Social [via AdAge]
- Social ROI: Challenges and Solutions [via Simply Measured Blog]
- ‘We’re building an end-to-end solution’: Bloomberg wants in on the agency business [via Digiday]
- How brands and publishers can create effective digital video content [via Mumbrella]
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