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🐝 Looping You In (8 things you need to know to sound smart around your boss or industry friends today)

1) Bonnaroo announced 75% refunds after canceling the rest of the festival due to bad weather. This did not go over well with fans of the festival though who quickly signed a petition to get the full 100% back. Thankfully, in the end they got the full refund that they wanted.

🏊 Deeper Dive: This was the 3rd time in the last 5 years that Bonnaroo has been disrupted. In 2020 the event was halted because of the pandemic, and in 2021 the festival was also canceled due to weather.

2) Pixar’s ‘Elio’ landed the lowest debut in the company’s history with $21 million, and Sony’s ‘28 Years Later’ leaps into 2nd with $30 million. ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ still retains the top spot with $37 million.

3) Budweiser won a major music advertising award for their recent “iconic songs” campaign… bragging they spent $0 on music rights. The company racked up over 68 million impressions on TikTok while utilizing just one second of popular tracks to capture attention in a loophole attempt around paying for the songs’ rights. The issue? There is no such loophole, and now they face a lawsuit from Sony. Oops! Real talk, why brag about not paying for rights when your parent company (AB inBev) is worth $141B? Weird move.

4) Formula One owner buys another racing league. Liberty Media, who also owns Sirius XM, Pandora and 35% of Live Nation, purchased 86% of MotoGP (those insanely fast motorcycles). Another Netflix series incoming?

5) US Senators urge the FTC to look into Spotify’s “bundling tactics.” In March of 2024 the company added 15 hours of audiobook listening to paid plans which turned them into a bundle, but the move also resulted in Spotify having to pay less mechanical royalties to publishers and songwriters in the US. Sounds like something to look into.

6) Netflix has been awarded $20 million tax credit for filming in California. The untitled project was one of 48 that got funding from the California Film Commission.

🧠 Industry Insight: 48 film projects in total have benefited from this recent round of funding, with $94 million in tax credits being dished out for 5 studio films and 43 independent features.

7) Amid controversy, L.A. Film Office contract has been renewed for 5 more years. Read our breakdown from last week on why many in the Industry oppose this move.

8) A Spotify’s CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek has invested $694 million into AI military defense company Helsing, marking one of Europe’s largest defense-technology investments ever. Read more.

📝 Tip of the Day:

Pleaseee for the love of god keep a running list of people you work with at every job you have.

Name, email, projects, something unique about them you can reference later. Boomers call this a rolodex. I use google docs now. I wish I started sooner.

Gen Z workers stay at their job for an average of 1-3 years.
Don't let your contacts disappear after you write your heartfelt goodbye email and you go celebrate (as your work email access is revoked).

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