Weekly Roundups #7: A Blast From The Past This Festive Season On Telemundo And Star Life, Hasbro Looking To Compete With Nintendo As Their Latest Movie Releases Tank In Cinemas

 

1. A rebroadcast of Forever Yours launches on Star Life by 28 November

2. A rebroadcast of The Scent Of Passion launches on Telemundo by 28 December 

3. Shadows Of The Past, former FOX telenovela makes its debut on TLNovelas by 2 December 

Based on 2001 telenovela El Manantial, it follows Two very different families live in the village of Santa Lucía who are involved in a whirlwind of passion, pain, and revenge. From those opposite sides, Aldonza and Cristóbal meet and a bond that will face hurdles is formed.

4. DOJ looking to make Google sell Chrome

To recap, this is the result of a major court ruling back in August that found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its monopoly over online search and the advertising markets closely intertwined therein. In October, news began to percolate about which remedies the US department of Justice would seek, with its sights set on Android and Chrome for the part these areas of the business played in unfairly prioritising Google Search and related products.

5. MultiChoice to rollout new DStv Explora Ultra with AI capabilities

The next generation DStv Explora Ultra decoder will be the latest hardware release from MultiChoice and takes the place of the much-hyped DStv Glass - a customised version of Comcast's Sky Glass for South Africa that MultiChoice planned to release here but scuppered because of its worsening financial position.

6. Jack Harlow drops new single Hello Miss Johnson 

7. Cartoon Network closes their official websites across Europe, Middle East and Africa 

8. Idris Elba set to star in He-Man's Masters Of The Universe live-action film 

9. WWE Network (app) will close internationally by 31 December with further content on Netflix 

10. One More Try launches 25 November for Zee World consumers outside South Africa 

This series delves into the complexities between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, highlighting the significance of love, mutual respect, and understanding. At the heart of the story is a brave daughter-in-law who defies societal expectations and takes a stand to arrange her mother-in-law’s wedding, despite the odds stacked against her. Through her journey, the series emphasizes the power of compassion, and the lengths one can go for the happiness of a loved one.

11. Famous SpongeBob composer Andy Paley dies at 72

12. Hasbro will no longer be financing movies following dismal performance of Transformers One and Dungeons And Dragons 

In a new report, it is learned that Hasbro is moving away from concentrating on movies and is now going to focus on the digital route, which includes new video games for G.I. Joe and Dungeons Dragons. Hasbro will also be further expanding its popular Magic brand.

13. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are BACK IN ACTION streaming on Netflix from 17 January 

Google Has Killed Independent Publishers Like Us, What's Next?

As some of you already know, Google continues bleeding independent publishers dry with their latest algorithm update leaving only large websites to takeover the search engine alongside the help of other platforms like Reddit and Quora. But if I had to be frank, it's mainly large websites alongside TikTok and Threads that are killing us.

It's sort of reached this point where I had to reduce the amount of content going to this site from this point forward while thousands of others are looking to close and just "move on". Something I've read was that a convention was held by the search engine where various publishers affected by this issue attended.

For those relying on SEO agencies are wasting their time, it was made clear that our content wasn't the problem and the few that were fortunate to attend got the vibe that there's no recovering from this.

Below is the current state of various independent publishers 

Another algorithm update is on the way but from what I can only assume this will eat away a large part of the internet. With Google pushing hard on Gemini (AI), we presume they'll want to cut away more smaller websites like ours part of which are still have various pages being ranked within a query.

Now imagine being the only competitor in your niche and now these consumers hoping to find your content when searching the web will find zero results or worse run into another website duplicating your content only for them to also get delisted.

As it stands, it's best we just transition from publisher to content creator so we're focusing on YouTube at the moment and hopefully we can add more to the list.