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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in Ukraine — The Chinese-owned video app is a trove of digital intelligence that lawyers are attempting to mine and archive Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in…

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is getting characters, items, and locations from Riot Games' upcoming series Arcane through an update in the middle of November. BGMI publisher Krafton has partnered with game developer and publisher Riot Games to offer the exclusive in-game content. Arcane debuted on Krafton Video in China and Netflix globally earlier this month. The TV series is based on the League of Legends universe and follows the origin of the two existing League champions — set in the utopian Piltover and the…

Netflix is preparing its ad-supported tier, which many thought would never come. But its coming by the end of this year. Aside from getting ads to serve to this tier, Netflix also needs to get its content ready for this tier.What do I mean by that? Well, Netflix’s licenses are all dependent on the shows being shown without any ads. That means that shows it has licensed from Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery, Universal and others, will need to have the terms adjusted to show ads. Otherwise, Netflix could lose out on a lot of…

Google’s quality threshold – and how it relates to indexing – has become a more well-known and widely talked about topic over the past year. Several elements contribute to the value proposition of an individual page and domain. But one key concept that Google covers in their Quality Rater Guidelines is “beneficial purpose.” (I cover how beneficial purpose relates to indexing, in Why 100% indexing isn’t possible, and why that’s OK.) Increasingly, when websites experiencing…

Samsung TV Plus, the Web content service for Samsung TV users, is reaching India and markets including Mexico, Sweden, and some additional European countries in 2021, the South Korean giant has announced. The service was launched in 2015 for limited access, but it has now been expanded to 12 countries and 742 channels. There are around 300 broadcast network partners for the Samsung TV Plus service that will bring free content to the company's smart TV users.The list of countries where Samsung TV Plus is already live…

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has announced it has partnered with Sony Pictures to bring special content from Spider-Man: No Way Home to the popular battle royale game. As part of an upcoming update to the game, publisher Krafton will add special content, which players can claim by completing missions in the game. BGMI began teasing the arrival of special Spider-Man content to the game in December last year, and Krafton says the BGMI Version 1.8 update will come to gamers later this month.As part of BGMI's first…

Nintendo has acquired the Japanese CG production company Dynamo Pictures and plans to rebrand it as "Nintendo Pictures," the company announced. Its aim with the new subsidiary is to develop visual content using Nintendo IP and focus on "the planning and production of visual content including CG animation." Dynamo worked with Nintendo before on the Metroid: Other M game also has credits on anime TV series like Evangelion: 2.0.  Nintendo is gearing up for its Super Mario Bros. movie starring Chris Pratt, which was recently…

Xiaomi Patchwall 2020 Replay Report was just released by the company, based on usage data gathered from customers who bought Mi TV models. It showed us, among other things, that educational content got a big boost in viewership in 2020. The year 2020 was historic for reasons good and bad (primarily the latter), but the television industry has largely benefited from people spending more time at home.From March onwards as lockdowns were put into place and establishments closed doors, people of all ages have had to stay home…

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) January Update will be released later today, bringing notable changes to the popular battle royale game. One of the biggest additions to the multiplayer title comes from Spider-Man: No Way Home, as part of publisher Krafton's first partnership with Sony Pictures. BGMI will reportedly get updates to the game for optimised gameplay as part of the BGMI update for iOS and Android smartphones. The game may also include improvements to weapon handling in the game, based on recent updates to…

TikTok is the wild west of social media feeds (and they’re all kinds of a wild west). A scroll could start on a dance trend, jump to a clip of raw chicken ‘marinating’ in NyQuil, and end on video of someone filing their own teeth. It’s weird out there, and occasionally dangerous. Now TikTok is taking its next steps to rein things in.The company announced a rating system called “Content Levels,” that it plans to institute an early version of “in the coming weeks,” in a Wednesday blog post. TikTok had indicated back in…