Robert Kyncl and Luz Avila Kyncl pledge 5 more years of scholarship support for underrepresented STEM students at SUNY New PaltzIn the past, 16 students have benefited from Kyncl Scholarship at New York educational institution
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Audient release iD24 Audient's latest interface pairs two of their renowned preamps with useful features such as balanced inserts, ADAT expandability, and built-in monitor control. 

Mensla Releases FREE MS-2 FM Synthesizer Plugin
Mensla releases MS-2, a freeware FM synthesizer plugin for digital audio workstations Windows and macOS. There are plenty of free synths with subtractive or wavetable capabilities, but shockingly few that dive into FM synthesis. Mensla has added its own take on FM synthesis with the release of MS-2, a three-operator FM synth packed with controls [...]
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Music Watch’s Generation Audio is a better way to understand listenersAs Russ Crupnick and the analysts at Music Watch know, music and audio are categories ripe for segmentation, and the more we understand our listeners, the better we can serve. Continue reading
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Arturia Winter Sale Arturia's Winter Sale is now live, with savings of 50% available across their range of individual software instruments, effects, and preset packs.

8 things musicians should never do on social mediaBobby Owsinki offers some usually unspoken but universal do’s and don’ts that musicians (and the rest of us) need to follow to maintain good social media health. by Bobby Owsinski. Continue reading
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FREE Access Virus C Synthesizer Emulation By DSP5630 (But There’s A Catch!)
DSP56300 Emulation Blog brings you the sound of the iconic Access Virus C (and more) for free. The Access Virus C first appeared in the early 2000s, and, like many vintage synths, it’s perhaps more sought-after now than it was early on. The synth became a favorite of many musicians creating any kind of industrial [...]
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Cloudlifter X announced The latest Cloudlifter device offers up to 36dB of gain, and can be driven into saturation if desired thanks to a custom Cinemag transformer.

Get TH-U Essentials FREE With Any Rig Library From ILIO
Ilio celebrates National Guitar Day by offering a FREE copy of TH-U Essentials ($49 value) with any TH-U Rig Library purchase. There is no shortage of excellent amp sims on the market right now. To help celebrate National Guitar Day, ILIO has partnered up with Overloud to provide a free license of TH-U Essentials with [...]
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Tubi reaches 64M monthly active users as ad-supported streaming growsFox’s free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, Tubi, reached 64 million monthly active users, the company announced today. The last time the company reported its subscriber base was in May 2022, when Tubi had 51 million. When Fox purchased the streaming service in 2020, Tubi then had 25 million monthly active users.
Fox recently reported quarterly earnings, which showed significant viewership growth at Tubi. Its total viewing time was up 44% year over year, with over 5 billion hours streamed in 2022. It’s likely Tubi viewership will increase even more since the streamer struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, gaining more than 2,000 hours of WB-branded content.
Tubi claims to have the largest free streaming content catalog, with over 50,000 titles and more than 200 live TV channels.

Tubi reports record growth, expands original content and linear channel offerings

The latest monthly active user figure was reported alongside Fox’s annual research report, “The Stream: 2023 Actionable Insights for Brands,” which shows an increased interest in cheaper ad-supported plans. The company predicted that by 2024, one in three U.S. consumers would stream AVOD (ad-supported video-on-demand). This is likely due to subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services hiking up their prices. Netflix and Disney+ were the most recent SVOD streamers to launch ad tiers.
Fox predicts that AVOD growth will increase by 9% in 2023 and 24% between 2022 and 2026 in total. Meanwhile, SVOD growth will remain “relatively flat,” the company wrote.
“As subscription costs continue to rise, nearly one in three streamers plan to reduce spending on streaming services this year,” said Mark Rotblat, chief revenue officer at Tubi, in a statement.
The report also stated that, within the past year, Tubi content was watched by one in five AVOD subscribers.
It’s pretty easy to see why AVOD services — especially free services — are becoming more and more favorable as they are closer in proximity to the cable experience, without the long-term contracts or hefty fees. Sixty-three percent of survey respondents said that free AVOD services are attractive because they typically offer more flexibility than cable and satellite TV and provide a more customized viewing experience.
Also, 45% of respondents said that they value streaming services with fewer ads. Tubi has arguably one of the lightest ad loads across AVOD services, citing between four and six minutes of ads per hour. However, the report found that less than one in five customers are still unsatisfied with the length of ad breaks on Tubi, but still prefer lighter ad loads compared to traditional TV, which has about nine or ten minutes.
For comparison, Peacock keeps the ad load around five minutes per hour. Disney+, Netflix and HBO Max aim for about four minutes.

Fox-owned Tubi expands its free streaming service to five Latin American countries

Tubi reaches 64M monthly active users as ad-supported streaming grows by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Breaking: Circle squashes rumors of planned SEC enforcement actionRumors swirled on Twitter that the stablecoin issuer received a litigation notice from the U.S. securities regulator but a Circle executive rebuffed the claim.