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A single benefit auction now raises tens of millions for AIDS research every year in Cannes -- the mechanics behind the donated lots, the professional auctioneer, and the payout the organizer reports as its own.
YouTube is doubling the watch-hour and Shorts-view bar for new monetization applicants starting February 1, 2027. Here's how the current rules work, what's changing, and who the update actually affects.
The "Cr" pin confirms who signed a file and what edits they recorded — not that the image is true. Here is the verified mechanic, and where federal researchers say it fails.
The WGA's antitrust lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger singles out overall deals as a market at risk — here is what those contracts actually pay for.
At the 2026 Venice Film Festival, several stars already have standing ties to a single house, which narrows the odds on a look long before any stylist starts a fitting.
From the E for Everyone badge to those small print notices about online chat, here's what every part of a game's rating is actually telling your family.
A monthly report from Nielsen sorts every minute of American TV watching into four buckets. Here's what counts, what doesn't, and why December 2025's record streaming share means less than the headline suggests.
The two numbers that follow every new release are built on different mechanisms — a threshold count on Rotten Tomatoes, a weighted average on Metacritic.
For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.
A 2019 study of tweens found these one-sided bonds feel like real friendship — and federal regulators now treat that closeness as a marketing variable worth watching.
From expired studio deals to tax write-offs, here is the record on why a title vanishes from a platform overnight, and what typically happens to it next.
The Friday-night and Sunday-morning figures splashed across headlines are studio projections, not verified receipts; the confirmed numbers arrive Monday afternoon through Comscore, the tracker theaters report ticket sales to directly.
Government grants, corporate sponsorship tiers, program-specific foundation gifts, and a new campus partnership show how one of the country's marquee festivals really pays its bills.
The rules cover any payment, free product, or personal tie to a brand, and they specify where the disclosure has to sit -- not just that one has to exist.
Reverse image search can confirm where and when a photo first appeared online. Here's exactly what it can and can't prove, per the tool makers' own documentation.
Nielsen counts minutes and Netflix counts hours divided by runtime, which is why two charts can rank the same show very differently.
Movie ratings aren't just an age suggestion. Here's what the MPA's own rules say each rating covers, who decides it, and how a studio can appeal.
Behind every cancellation announcement sits a mix of self-reported streaming data and a contested independent audit — and both halves of that ledger are getting harder for viewers to see.
A historic industry-wide box office weekend, powered by premium-format sellouts, is the clearest evidence yet that theater chains' years of renovation spending are starting to pay off.
In January 2026 pediatricians dropped the two-hour rule for a family-context framework. Here's what that means alongside the WHO's still-active hourly limits for children under five.
The two numbers that follow every new release are built on different mechanisms — a threshold count on Rotten Tomatoes, a weighted average on Metacritic.
From a paid submission through the Rating Board to a two-thirds vote on appeal, the process that puts a letter on every theatrical release runs on rules the Motion Picture Association publishes in full.
Federal tax rules split every gala ticket, sponsorship and auction bid into a benefit portion and a gift portion, and only the gift portion counts as a deduction.
The FTC doesn't require a specific phrase, but it does require a disclosure a viewer can't miss — and the platform's own toggle isn't automatically enough.
A viral photo shows up with a caption attached. Here is what reverse image search can confirm about it, and what it cannot.
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