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    Street Talk for February 10, 2017

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    Claire Wingate
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    Pulse Films has promoted Claire Wingate to SVP of production and operations, and Isabel Davis to head of production for unscripted TV and branded content. Wingate has moved to L.A. and will divide her time among the L.A., NY and London offices to support both international growth opportunities for Pulse and its partnership with Vice. She will focus on expanding the U.S. infrastructure and overseeing production and operations across its film, gaming, branded entertainment and TV output. At Pulse, Wingate has overseen projects including BBC documentaries United States of Hate: Muslims under Attack and Hunting the Nazi Gold Train. She was also head of production on gaming projects “Guitar Hero Live” and “Need for Speed.”  Based in the UK office, Davis was previously production exec on “Guitar Hero Live” and involved in other key projects across the branded content and the unscripted television departments….

    Audio post company Sound Lounge has introduced Sound Lounge Everywhere, a remote audio post and sound mixing service for clients. To bring this offering to life, Sound Lounge partnered with Editbar, Boston, which will manage the Sound Lounge Everywhere technology. Sound Lounge can stream audio and video from its NY office to Boston. Sound Lounge Everywhere allows the company to expand its footprint to the Boston ad market, and provides the opportunity for Boston-based clients to work with the Sound Lounge team without travel. Plans call for Sound Lounge Everywhere technology to eventually become available across the globe…

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    Growth Brings Growing Pains–and Bots–To Bluesky

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    Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner's support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.

    The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter's core mechanic. That's unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky's growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

    But with growth comes growing pains. It's not just human users who've been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

    The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

    Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

    "They got this spike in attention, they've crossed the threshold where it is now worth it for people to flood the platform with spam," said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and a member of Issue One's... Read More

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