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Tired of the barrage of advertisements that greet you everywhere you go? Imagine an alternate reality where all ads have been replaced by photos of adorable cats. You’ve just entered the Clapham Common tube station in South London. For the next two weeks, pictures of cats with big round eyes will stare out at you …

Magazine publisher Time Inc. is getting into the streaming media business. The company is launching its first streaming video network based on content from its popular entertainment magazines, People and Entertainment Weekly. The network, which is free due to advertising support, is called People/Entertainment Weekly Network, or PEN for short, and goes live on Tuesday. The online network is available …

Spotify started streaming Frank Ocean’s blockbuster record “Blonde” Friday, after its main rival Apple held onto it as an exclusive for nearly three weeks. Apple Music has been the only on-demand streaming service with “Blonde” since it was released August 20. The exclusive was a dunk for Apple; the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and …

Apple is having a bit of a hard time with the new iPhone 7. In Hong Kong, the new phone’s advertising tag line “This is 7” translates to — wait for it — “This is penis”. In Cantonese, the Chinese dialect spoken in Hong Kong, “seven”, or “chat” is a mild euphemism for the male member. “This is 7” – …

Apple wants to wow audiences over the progress of its music service, but perhaps it’s Spotify that really deserves your slow clap. Cupertino, California-based Apple boasted at its iPhone 7 launch event on Wednesday that its Apple Music subscription-streaming service had accumulated 17 million paying members since it launched in June 2015. It added 2 million in less than three …

Feeling guilty that Brave blocks ads on websites you actually might want to support? A new version of the web browser lets you contribute money directly. Brave 0.11.6 lets you contribute monthly to sites you visit with a feature called Brave Payments now in beta testing. About $5 a month is about enough to replace lost revenue from advertising, said …

Today’s lesson in digital media: Don’t play around with YouTubers and their payday. Social media was in a frenzy Thursday about apparent changes to how YouTube handles commercials on clips deemed unfriendly to advertising. YouTubers and their fans were incensed, but Google’s massive video site said it was simply trying to be more transparent. A hashtag about the uproar, #YouTubeIsOverParty, …

Twitter may not have much in the way of spoils, but it’s going to start sharing them with more people who tweet video on its social network. Twitter said Tuesday it is widening its Amplify ad program to let approved creators in the US make money off their videos. The company said the process is as simple as “checking a …

The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to look into Sprint’s “Save 50%” advertising claims. The National Advertising Division, a self-regulating body within the advertising industry, said Friday that it wants the FCC to review Sprint’s ads, after the wireless company failed to revise its claims that customers could slash their phone bills by 50 percent. NAD investigated Sprint’s advertising …

Now playing: Watch this: Australia keeps refugees in radio silence 4:45 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Behrouz Boochani has been stuck on an island in the middle of the Pacific for the past three years. He’s 7,000 miles from …