No segundo turno das eleições de 2026, o eleitor deve ficar atento a práticas consideradas crimes eleitorais, que podem interferir na vontade dos cidadãos e deturpar o processo democrático.
A propaganda no dia da eleição, conhecida popularmente como boca de urna é caracterizada pela tentativa de convencer, influenciar ou arregimentar eleitores a votar ou deixar de votar em determinada candidatura ou partido no dia do pleito e tem como pena a detenção de seis meses a um ano e alternativa de prestação de serviços à comunidade pelo mesmo período.
Além disso, quem for pego praticando a boca de urna pode receber multa que vai de R$ 5.320,50 a R$ 15.961,50.
A distribuição de “santinhos”, uso de auto-falantes, realização de comício, carreata e passeata também são proibidos. No caso da distribuição de santinhos, a legislação prevê multa que pode chegar a R$ 8 mil.
Já a compra de voto se caracteriza por oferecer vantagem, como presentes ou dinheiro, para o eleitor com o objetivo de angariar o seu voto ou mesmo para prometer abstenção. A pena é de reclusão até quatro anos e pagamento de cinco a 15 dias-multa.
Também é proibido o transporte irregular de eleitores, caracterizado pelo fornecimento de transporte coletivo no dia da votação por parte do candidato. A pena para essa infração é a maior dos crimes eleitorais, sendo previsto de quatro a seis anos de reclusão, além do pagamento de 200 a 300 dias-multa. O mesmo vale para o fornecimento irregular de alimentação.
Pena igual é aplicada ao crime de promover concentração de eleitores, no dia da votação, com o fim de impedir, embaraçar ou fraudar o exercício do voto. Geralmente esse crime é praticado em conjunto com o transporte e o fornecimento irregular de refeição para eleitores.
Outro crime eleitoral é o de assédio eleitoral, que se caracteriza por ameaçar para coagir alguém a votar ou não em determinado candidato ou partido. A pena é de reclusão de até quatro anos e pagamento de cinco a 15 dias-multa.
A fraude de votos, caracterizada pela substituição de votos, a violação das urnas eletrônicas e qualquer outro ato que busque modificar artificialmente o resultado do pleito também é uma conduta criminosa. A pena é de reclusão de até cinco anos, além de multa.
A destruição, danificação ou ocultação de urna eletrônica também é crime eleitoral. A pena é de reclusão de dois a seis anos e pagamento de cinco a 15 dias-multa.
A realização de selfie na cabine eleitoral é proibida, assim como também é crime eleitoral votar mais de uma vez ou votar no lugar de outra pessoa. Nesse caso, a pena é de até três anos de reclusão.
Durante o dia de votação cabe aos órgãos de segurança (Polícia Federal, a Polícia Civil, a Polícia Militar, a Polícia Rodoviária Federal, a Polícia Militar Rodoviária e Guardas Municipais) agir para fazer cessar qualquer prática ilícita, tendo autoridade para efetuar prisões em flagrante por delitos eleitorais ou de outra natureza.
Manifestações permitidas
A legislação permite ao eleitor manifestar, de maneira pacífica e silenciosa, a sua preferência política, podendo ir votar com camiseta, boné, botton, adesivo e bandeira do seu candidato ou partido.
Também é permitido e recomendado que o eleitor leve uma cola eleitoral (nome e número do candidato anotados em um papel) para a cabine de votação. Segundo o Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), a medida diminui o tempo de permanência do eleitor na seção eleitoral.
Denuncie
Os crimes eleitorais podem ser denunciados por qualquer pessoa por meio de uma notícia-crime eleitoral verbal ou por escrito à autoridade policial, ao Ministério Público Eleitoral, nos tribunais regionais eleitorais (TREs) ou à autoridade judiciária da zona eleitoral na qual a infração ocorreu.
O aplicativo Pardal, da Justiça Eleitoral, pode ser usado para denunciar irregularidades sobre propaganda eleitoral. O relato deve conter informações sobre o local, a descrição do fato, além de fotos, vídeos, áudios ou links que possam ajudar na análise da ocorrência. A ferramenta pode ser baixada gratuitamente na Google Play e App Store.
Primeiro turno
Segundo o Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública (MJSP), no primeiro turno, no dia 4 de outubro foram registradas 1.170 ocorrências. Desse total, 1.113 são crimes eleitorais, seis foram crimes comuns contra candidatos e outros 13 contra locais de votação ou apuração.
Entre as principais ocorrências estão os crimes de:
propaganda no dia da eleição - boca de urna
compra de votos;
transporte irregular de eleitores;
fornecimento irregular de alimentação;
coação ou ameaça ao eleitorado;
fraude do voto;
dano ou destruição de uma eletrônica e
concentração de eleitoras e eleitores com finalidade de impedir, dificultar ou fraudar o exercício do voto.
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Para elaborar cada contenido, combino la revisión de información técnica, la consulta de fuentes especializadas y la prueba de los productos. Mi objetivo es transformar toda esa información en recomendaciones claras, rigurosas y fáciles de entender, para que los lectores puedan tomar decisiones de compra mejor fundamentadas.
Nel documentario Il ghiaccio in tasca, presentato alla Festa del cinema di Roma, il figlio Giovanni ricompone la memoria del direttore d’orchestra scomparso troppo presto
In Poland’s ancient Białowieża Forest, scientists say wetlands and dense forests could act as natural military defences. At the same time it could be the lifeline the forest needs.This article was originally published on Mongabay
POLAND — Białowieża Forest. Białowieża Forest, one of Europe’s last remaining primeval forests, straddles the border between Poland and Belarus. Its wetlands and ancient trees support a dazzling array of life, but decades of drainage, drought and fragmentation have left the ecosystem under pressure. Now, it faces a new challenge. As the threat from Russia and its ally Belarus grows, Poland is strengthening its eastern border through a project called the East Shield. New military fortifications and infrastructure are planned in the region to bolster existing border security. Scientists warn that further development in and around the forest could be devastating for the ecosystem. They have, however, suggested an alternative: restore the forest, its wetlands and rivers to their natural state. The resulting landscape, dense with trees and boggy with water, not only provides important habitat but can also be practically impenetrable to heavy vehicles and ground forces. Some have dubbed this strategy “warwilding”, using restored natural landscapes as part of military strategy. The idea has found traction within the Polish military, which recognises the strategic value of natural barriers and supports efforts to restore parts of the forest. But recognizing nature’s defensive value is easier than restoring it. Hundreds of kilometers of drainage ditches still carry water away from the forest, while roads provide easy routes through terrain that could otherwise form a natural barrier. Conservationists say large-scale restoration will require coordination, funding and political will, but believe it could also be the forest’s best chance of long-term survival.…This article was originally published on Mongabay
O escritor e cineasta nascido em Nagasaki faleceu a 17 de outubro, aos 74 anos. Mas só esta sexta-feira a sua editora japonesa emitiu um comunicado. "Rezamos pela paz de Murakami, que percorreu a vida a todo o vapor como pioneiro de uma era”, declarou, citada pelo “The Japan Times”
Solo due partite, tanto basta per capire che LeBronJames non ha voglia di scherzare a Philadelphia. Una media di oltre 15punti, quasi 10 rimbalzi e 6 assist. Andate a vedervi le cifre a fine carriera di alcune tra le più longeve star del passato. Si, gente di “poco conto” tipo KarlMalone, VinceCarter o PatrickEwing. Il Prescelto sta in universo a parte, non solo per le cifre. Anche per condizione atletica e intensità di gioco. Anche JaylenBrown non è partito male, nonostante incastri e gerarchie abbiano ancora bisogno di tempo per acquisire fluidità e automatismi. Joel Embiid? È sembrato rassicurantemente in forma. A rimbalzo può dare sicuramente di più (come cantava qualcuno…), ma le ginocchia sono quelle che sono. Tuttavia, al momento, non sembra esserci discussione alcuna, la stella della squadra è un certo TyresMaxey. E da queste fasi iniziali, i compagni di squadra sembrano anche averlo accettato di buon grado.
Talento irreale, guardia tiratrice “elettrica e veloce”. Fate conto un RobertPack (esplosivo playmaker di Denver degli anni ’90) che corre alla velocità del suono palla in mano per tutto il campo, solo che Maxey ha una completezza offensiva degna di un MitchRichmond nel picco di carriera. Nel ha messi 32 nella rimonta di stanotte contro Cleveland. Ne aveva segnati 28 nella serata di apertura contro NewYork. Sempre il miglior marcatore dei suoi. Somiglia sinistramente ad Allen “The Answer” Iverson per velocità sul primopasso, capacità di superare il difensore dal palleggio, abilità nel segnare in traffico. Fisico scolpito nel granito, grande esplosività, pazzesca velocità di base, eccezionale palleggio. Una superstarfatta e finita. Tyrese “The Second Answer” Maxey?
Ottimo esordio, ma con sconfitta, per Paul George
I Celtics hanno perso contro i DetroitPistons nella prima gara di stagione. Ma PaulGeorge, dopo anni in cui ha spesso arrancato (causa anche frequenti guai fisici), è parso davvero tirato a lucido. Ed è un’ottima notizia per Boston, anche perché sopperire alla dipartita di uno del calibro di JaylenBrown non è certo la cosa più semplice del mondo. Nella serata di apertura, George ha segnato ben 38punti, record per un esordio in maglia bianco verde, con un’interpretazione del gioco dal perimetro di livello “RayAllen”. Per lui 7 su 12 da tre e la sensazione di poter trovare la retina tutte le volte che alzava il braccio dopo uno scarico di un compagno.
Le primavere, ben 36, non sono più cosìpoche e non si può certo sperare che ritornil’iradiddio che era in maglia IndianaPacers. Tuttavia, se rimane sano, PaulGeorge può essere particolarmente efficace nella filosofiaoffensiva di coach Mazulla, alleggerire le spalle di Tatum e White in attacco, garantire un altro punto di riferimento che può essere decisivo quando conta per davvero. Sarà in grado di far dimenticare ciò che Brown faceva in campo? No, quello no. Intanto, dovrebbe iniziare a non farlo rimpiangere. Compito complesso.
Cunningham: il ritorno di Gran Hill?
Ricorda molto GrantHill per il modo in cui attacca il canestro dal palleggio, con (molto) meno stacco da terra, ma più visione di gioco rispetto all’ex stella dei Pistons. Ha letteralmente diretto l’orchestra di Detroit come se fossero alla prima de La Scala, portando la squadra alla vittoria proprio contro i BostonCeltics. Ha chiuso con 22punti e 8 assist. Certo, ha tirato maluccio sia dal campo (8 su 18) che da tre (1 su 6). Mani fredde, cuore caldo. Ha giocato una gara sempre in controllo, ha organizzato l’attacco, messo in ritmo i compagni (Jalen Duren dovrebbe fagli una statua…), leggendo in modoappropriatoritmi e spaziature.
Cade Cunningham non ha bisogno di segnare per incidere, è quel tipo di giocatore davvero poco egoista, che fa rispendere i compagni. All-aroud dalla tecnica sopraffina, tratta bene la palla, può agire in modonaturale come portatore primario, ma sa anche muoversi lontano dalla palla. Il tirodafuori, appunto, continua a essere altalenante. Anche nella sua miglior stagione dal perimetro, non è andato mai oltre il 35%. Se migliora anche in questo fondamentale, può puntare all’MVP, se non come premio in sé stesso (qualcuno tra SanAntonio, OklahomaCity e Denver potrebbe avere qualcosa da ridire), almeno come livello di gioco. Ma Detroit deve continuare a far bene.
George Brett Olson (right) said his joke was taken by an AI account (left).
George Brett Olson via Instagram
George Brett Olson is one of a set of comedians who've called out AI accounts for ripping off their work.
Olson said he was upset with Meta for allowing the situation to persist on its platforms.
Instagram's top exec said the platform is invested in promoting original content and would look into the issue.
This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with George Brett Olson, one of several comedians who have lately called out AI accounts for ripping off their jokes. It's been edited for length and clarity. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he would look into what could be done about the issue and that the platform was invested in driving traffic to original content.
I started doing stand-up in 2021 after getting burned out from being a winemaker. I'd been doing live shows, and this joke I made about, ironically, AI stealing jobs went viral. The whole joke was about AI stealing jobs and people still blaming immigrants, which is very silly when the most powerful people were saying, "We're literally coming to take all your jobs."
Then a friend sent me the video of this lady doing the joke. He's like, "AI is for real, for real, stealing your jokes." It was basically me, in my clothes, but it's a 42-inch butt. It's just the pornification of women online. It was very strange.
I'd been doing that joke for a year. I thought of it after working out with my buddy, and we were talking, walking. It takes a lot of work to get a joke stage-ready. It's a lot of repetition, tweaking, driving from place to place to perform. Comedy's not easy. So it's pretty sad to see it happen, especially when the AI comedians who are stealing jokes have more followers than the people they're stealing from.
I asked the account behind the joke if she was real. She said yes. Then I asked, "Did someone help you do this?" And she just left me on read. She also left a comment saying, "Sorry, won't happen again," and removed a bunch of videos.
I've had a bunch of followers try to report it. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, replied and basically said, "Not all AI's bad. We don't know how we're going to stop it, but people shouldn't be able to steal. Seems like we should do something about that."
[This was Mosseri's exact comment: "I don't think it's practical for us to try and ban AI content from the platform. It's gonna be harder and harder to identify, and it's not all bad content (though yes, there is plenty of slop). But we are very invested in trying to drive more traffic to original content creators, and if an AI creator is ripping off content wholesale, it would be good for us to work out what we can do about that. I'm not sure what it would be, but I'll make sure to talk to the team and look into it."]
George Brett Olson is one of several comedians who have lately called out AI accounts for copying their jokes.
Max Brandt
I blame Meta, not the AI
I don't blame someone for stealing. That's just someone trying to make a buck with the tools they have available. We want to hold people responsible that do not have the mechanisms of power because we can't hold an institution accountable.
I feel demoralized more by Meta's response. The language that's coming from all of them is that we're powerless, and this is inevitable, and there's nothing we can do. And it's just not true. And you just have to sit, be powerless, which is demoralizing.
As a comedian, you just want to sell tickets to your shows, engage with live people. That's why most of us post on social media — so people see that you're funny so they come to your live shows. I do live shows every week.
If we flood the internet with agents, and we don't know the difference anymore between what's real and what's not, this could be the death of the internet. Hopefully more people come to live shows. Because the one thing about AI comedians is: You can't see them live.
School of Hard Knocks founders, from left, Jack Dumoulin, James Dumoulin, and Josh Smith, want to be the "Barstool Sports of business."
School of Hard Knocks
James Dumoulin has turned street interviews with moguls into a business on track for $37 million in revenue this year.
School of Hard Knocks uses staged drama to hook viewers and sells consulting services and memberships.
Dumoulin and his partners aim to expand and become the "Barstool Sports of business content."
As James Dumoulin approaches a private equity investor in Lagos, Nigeria, there's an ominous moment when a bodyguard holding a rifle puts his hand up and demands the content creator stop.
"I have a channel with 24 million followers," the School of Hard Knocks cofounder responds, and then asks if he can interview the investor, Adesuwa Rhodes, for one minute about how she got rich.
Rhodes steps forward, dressed in a vibrantly patterned suit, and begins answering Dumoulin's questions, explaining how she broke into the business, the importance of persistence, and her faith in God.
The video's formula — mixing a high-drama street interview with advice from the wealthy and successful — has been distilled down to a science by 24-year-old Dumoulin, and helped him create a company that's on track to do $37 million in revenue this year, profitably, according to copies of financial documents he provided to Business Insider. The initial set-up is also, as Dumoulin readily explains, partly scripted.
"They're screaming at me, and it looks like a war is about to break out, and then I get her to calm them down," he said of how he blocked out the Rhodes scene. "And she gave some incredible sound bites and advice."
Street interviews, which have their predecessors on radio and TV, have been reborn as one of social media's hottest formats. Standout stars of the genre include Kareem Rahma of "Subway Takes," who gets opinions on hot topics from strangers, and TikToker Caleb Simpson, who asks people what they pay in rent and tours their apartments. As the format has grown increasingly lucrative, it's also become more orchestrated. Rahma and Simpson have both leaned into celebrity appearances, for example.
In Dumoulin's case, the upfront drama of the street encounter is contrived, a way to draw the viewer in and hook them so they'll listen to the interview, which is where he says the valuable information actually resides. He asks his subjects how they made their money, what their leadership principles are, and for advice for future entrepreneurs. The conceit is that they're lessons not taught in school.
"People love tension," Dumoulin said. "They want to see that conflict, they want to see what's going to happen, and then the payoff is a great interview on the back half. That's why I think our videos do really, really well."
Dumoulin's success in the creator economy — where the term "authenticity" is employed like a sacred totem — raises a host of questions about what it means to be "real," and how much it truly matters if you're entertaining and informing your audience. Any questions of authenticity haven't seemed to hamper the growth of School of Hard Knocks, though, which has nearly 11 million Instagram followers and over 7 million on TikTok, plus several million more on YouTube and other platforms.
Dumoulin said he'd consider a video a failure if it got under a million views.
The 'Barstool Sports of business content'
The videos serve as the center of an operation — run by Dumoulin, his brother Jack, 26, and their childhood friend Josh Smith, 28 — that contains a slew of businesses. The partners say they expect their media revenue to double over the next six months.
"One of the long-term visions of the School of Hard Knocks is to create the Barstool Sports of business content," James Dumoulin said.
The team poses with Tom Cruise, one of several celebrities they've interviewed.
School of Hard Knocks
The brand has done long-term sponsorships with companies including Shopify, ZipRecruiter, and Alibaba, but advertising isn't the most lucrative part of the business. The core moneymaker is School of Content, which provides social media consulting to small businesses.
The other two contributors are Hard Knocks Agency, a short-form video production and social media management agency for business owners, and School of Mentors, a membership community for aspiring entrepreneurs. Members pay $19 or $49 a month for live calls, workshops, and training with founders and operators.
Jack Dumoulin said the subscribers to its Mentors community are people who want to connect with successful entrepreneurs and learn from them, while the agency's clients are established businesspeople who want to build their personal or company brands.
"Founder-led brands are becoming a really, really big thing, where we're seeing more and more founders become the face of brands, their product, their service, or their company," Jack Dumoulin said.
Monica Khan, CEO of Creator Revolution, which helps creators build businesses and advises companies on influencer strategy, said she sees strong demand from execs and founders for help building personal brands, and business-to-business (B2B) creators are stepping up.
School of Hard Knocks took a smart approach by building a media brand first by interviewing entrepreneurs, then turning that credibility into a service, Khan said.
"We're going to see a lot more of that," she added.
The School of Hard Knocks cofounders have also invested in real estate, including a portion of an apartment complex in San Antonio and commercial properties.
The founders went through several pivots
The Dumoulin brothers grew up in a military family in Northern Virginia and became friends with Smith while serving in the same Boy Scouts troop. All went on to become Eagle Scouts.
James Dumoulin attributes some of their success to the mentoring they got from the military dads who ran the troop. He recalled the especially long conferences they'd have with scout leaders evaluating them for advancement to the next rank, and the scoutmaster who used to say, "There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it again."
"That resonated with us," he said.
Mark Cuban gave School of Hard Knocks its first big break.
Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images
The three reconnected in Austin in 2020. Josh Smith had gotten into digital marketing, and Jack Dumoulin, who had won a trophy in a worldwide Microsoft Excel competition, had become a junior analyst at Buc-ee's. James Dumoulin was in college, making TikTok videos. They combined their skills to make online content.
School of Hard Knocks was by no means an overnight success. They experimented with several approaches, including giving their own business advice. People didn't care about a 20-year-old kid's perspective on business, James Dumoulin said.
"Ultimately, we were like, 'What if we tried doing interviews?'" he said. "'What if we were the ones that were able to go seek advice from the most successful people?'"
They started approaching people cold on the street, asking them for interviews, and more often than not, getting blown off.
"It was just constant rejection after rejection," James Dumoulin said. "You'd probably have to go to 100 people before you get anybody to even look at you in the eye."
Their big break came in 2022 when they intercepted Mark Cuban outside the South by Southwest festival and asked for an interview. The gregarious entrepreneur obliged.
"That one interview was so powerful for us, because I leveraged it in so many other interviews," James Dumoulin said.
Eventually, PR agents were calling them to have their clients be featured on the channel.
The videos are carefully planned
School of Hard Knocks videos have a spontaneous feel that belies the meticulous planning behind them.
They start with a cold open, often creating tension by involving a security guard or other bystanders. For an interview with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, James Dumoulin roped in a few employees from a store on Rodeo Drive where he met Siminoff and asked them to stand in a group, chatting. Dumoulin asked the group who the richest of them was. As briefed, they pointed to Siminoff, who said he was an inventor who made "something on your front door."
James Dumoulin reshoots the opening several times until he's satisfied with the result. The rest of the interview is shot in one take. He approaches his subjects with hearty enthusiasm and said he does minimal research on them, to preserve a certain amount of natural surprise in his reactions. All told, he takes five to seven hours to edit videos that are between a minute and a half and two minutes long.
"He's got unbelievable guests," said Josh Suggs, founder of StreetTalk, an ad agency built around impromptu street interviews. "He has real A-list celebrities. So I think people naturally want to hear what an A-list celebrity is going to say. At the same time, he asks a question people want to hear: How much money do you make? It's very scroll-stopping questions."
Some subjects — like Shaq and Tom Cruise — are household names. Most are not. James Dumoulin said the best-performing videos are unknown moguls because they create a curiosity gap.
He doesn't press his guests on controversial topics. Convicted felon "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort and streamer Adin Ross, who has hosted far-right creator Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate on his stream, get the same treatment as everyone else.
A platform reality check
The cofounders said that when their content started to take off, around 2022, they got a reality check about dependence on platforms.
They said their content was making about $30,000 a month, mostly from Facebook, when they were unexpectedly demonetized by the platform for what James Dumoulin said was an "unoriginal content violation." (They've since been reinstated.) Their monthly revenue dropped to $5,000. They said it was a wake-up call that they had to find other, more predictable sources of income. They started their first offshoot, the Hard Knocks Agency, in 2023.
"Sometimes you're not in control, because you don't own the platform," James Dumoulin said. "It made us realize, 'We've got to create a media company.'"
The School of Hard Knocks founders are also aware of the risk they run of being dependent on a single person. That's why they're adding new brands like Hard Knocks Business and Hard Knocks Women, with Hard Knocks Sports to come. The goal is to get to eight channels by the end of the year.
"If it is all really relying on one person, if something happens to that person, the whole company's kind of screwed," James Dumoulin said. "And so I think that's why it is very, very important to have that distribution beyond just one channel."
No próximo mês de dezembro, o comum aumento da afluência aos hospitais vai ter um novo 'remédio'. Por essa altura, as equipas de S.O.S no internamento estarão obrigadas a tratar doentes externos sempre que a pressão o justificar. A nova regra foi publicada na quinta-feira pela tutela
Led by Chris Balfe, Red Seat made its name running sales and production services for podcasters including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Nancy Grace.
Now, as the lines between creators, podcasters, and writers continue to blur, it's adding newsletter functionality to its stack. The newsletter feature will live under Supercast, a company Red Seat bought this year that offers a menu of subscription options like livestreaming for creators. They can now build free and paid newsletters and track their performance on a dashboard. The newsletter feature is included in Supercast's base pricing of $0.59 per subscriber per month, with custom pricing available for big networks and media companies.
"We want to be a one-stop shop for creators," Balfe told Business Insider. "Whereas Substack has done a really good job going after written-first creators, and then adding podcasting capability on top of that, we're going at it from the other direction and saying, for most of the creators that we work with, their audio and video is their main business. So, let's add other features like email and livestreaming."
Balfe pointed to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe of "Kill Tony" as an early example of Red Seat's success in using a multifaceted approach. Since launching a subscription, Kill Tony+, Hinchcliffe has signed up thousands of people who get his uncensored, ad-free show and bonus content.
Hinchcliffe plans to create another, super-expensive tier where people would pay to get roasted by him, Balfe said.
"It would be like $10,000 or something like that to roast you," Balfe said. "We will sell out of these so bad."
He also pointed to an early pilot of Supercast's livestreaming with "This American Life," which drew more than 1,700 paying audience members.
Red Seat is aiming for 10 big deals
Balfe wants to make Red Seat a creator-economy juggernaut, with some 200 shows. The company has around 30 shows now and is looking to do a lot more deals quickly, especially in sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and tech. Red Seat's top creator deals generally pay a minimum guarantee against projected sales.
"We really want to accelerate our rate of dealmaking," Balfe said. "I think if we did 10 big deals in the next 12 months, that would be big."
Balfe disagrees with industry insiders like iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman, who say podcast distribution deals are getting too expensive. He said there was strong advertiser demand and that hosts have the ability to branch out into other areas. Balfe said he's doing deals where the show itself accounts for as little as 60% of the revenue, with the rest coming from other projects.
Balfe also sees the potential for creators to make longer deals. YouTubers are often used to getting short-term ad deals, while Red Seat is pushing for 12-month partnerships for its clients, he said.
"We're trying to do annual deals," he said. "YouTubers are attracted to that sort of consistency that the podcast business model has allowed."
Podcasts are TV now
Podcasting has become more of a video-first medium as it has evolved from its audio roots.
Forty-four percent of US podcast consumers watched a video podcast in the past week, up from 40% in 2025, according to a report from trade group Sounds Profitable released this month. YouTube is the top podcast platform, used by 63% in the past 12 months, ahead of Spotify (33%), Netflix (21%), and Apple Podcasts (15%).
Balfe thinks video will continue to grow its share of the pie. People are watching more podcasts on YouTube, especially on TV screens. Spotify is making the case that video consumption outperforms audio on its platform.
Major streamers are also hungry for podcasts, and linear TV players like Versant's MS NOW are looking for lower-cost programming to fill their schedules. Red Seat's shows aren't running on Fox's linear networks today, but Balfe said it's only a matter of time before that happens.
"I look at the next phase of video opportunities, and we have every streamer that wants our content now: Hulu, Peacock, and Amazon Prime, and Paramount Plus," Balfe said. "We also have the linear guys that are starting to come to us and say, 'Actually, what you're producing looks kind of like a talk show. Maybe we should just put it in late night or daytime.'"
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Students and Ithaca community members gathered in downtown Ithaca on Oct. 13 for the “I Am Jane Doe” rally to support students’ demands in light of the reopened criminal investigation into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a former Cornell University student by members of the school’s Chi Phi fraternity.
The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 16, two years after the plaintiff, identifying as Jane Doe, was allegedly sexually assaulted and gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers.
Since the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University’s student-run newspaper, broke the story on Sept. 18, it has received widespread media attention and sparked nationwide anger. This has led to protests across the United States, including on Cornell University’s campus and in the greater Ithaca community.
TRNN student correspondents Lucia Iandolo and Ava Suffredini took to the streets to interview Ithaca students, organizers, and community members in the wake of an international reckoning with sexual assault and rape culture.
Reporting: Lucian Iandolo Videography and Editing: Ava Suffredini Production and Post-Production: Ryan Johnson
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Lucia Iandolo: Students and Ithaca community members have gathered in downtown Ithaca October 13th for the I Am Jane Doe rally to support students’ demands in light of the reopened criminal investigation into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a former Cornell University student by members of the school’s Chi Phi fraternity. The lawsuit was filed on September 16th, two years after the plaintiff identifying as Jane Doe was allegedly sexually assaulted and gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers. Since the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University student-run newspaper broke the story on September 18th, it has received widespread media attention and sparked nationwide anger. This has led to protests across the United States, including on Cornell University’s campus, Ithaca College’s campus, and in the greater Ithaca community. Can we
Speaker: Demonstrate it over here?
Lucia Iandolo: Many members of the Ithaca community, including businesses and organizations, have spoken out and condemned the Cornell administration’s complicity. Today, the I Am Jane Doe rally is being held to demand accountability from the Cornell administration and advocate for systemic change in relation to sexual assault.
Speaker: From Cornell to LSU. From Cornell to LSU. Survivors, we stand with you. Survivors, we stand with you.
Samara Ferris: We are here to provide support to the Cornell University to also inspire people in other universities and other communities around the US to stand up and fight in their own communities. So we want to echo the student demands because they live it every day. They know.
Speaker: Emphasize our full support and endorsement of all student demands. Cornell students have come up with an exhaustive, extensive list of demands because they know what their school needs.
Jessie Romero Silver: So I think there is a responsibility on the local level to do something because of our proximity to Cornell, but there’s also a responsibility to yourself as well. As a human and as a feminist, I would say if you care about the women around you, you must care about this. And you have to care about this once the media cycle is done, once eyes are not on Cornell anymore. Because my greatest fear is that we are so angry about this, that this is happening on a national level and it’s finally being shown and Cornell is just going to run out the clock until people don’t care anymore and then they don’t have to do anything. So I really want people to step up in this moment, not just because it’s a national story, but because you’re a person, you should care. You have to care.
Speaker: We are here because we demand answers and I refuse to wake up 10 years from now and realize nothing has changed.
Samara Ferris: Everyone’s organizer. I’m not a professional organizer. I’m a business owner. I’m a chef. I’m an organizer. All these amazing people today, they’re organizers. There are artists, there are writers, there are other business owners. Everyone’s an organizer. Everyone can organize something. It can be a teaching. It could be a book club. It can be a dinner after everyone goes to vote. So everybody is an organizer and I think that’s what’s important is that everyone needs to stand up and become an active part of changing culture here and everywhere.
Speaker: We need institutions to do their job when nobody is watching. I’m here as a student, as a man, and as someone with a platform.
Alex Prout: If we’re going to address this issue, men need to care about this and men need to speak up and take action. In the advocacy world, it’s primarily women speaking up and we’re asking people who’ve been traumatized, who’ve been impacted by this to carry the burden of this work, which is inherently unfair. So we need men to stand up and speak up and care.
Speaker: Whose voices we listen to and whether we speak out regardless of what it costs.
Alex Prout: When we talk about sexual violence, a lot of people use the term gender-based violence and also a lot of people think that this is a woman’s issue. It is not a women’s issue. This is a men’s issue.
Speaker: Your administration is not what makes Cornell a prestigious institution. Your courageous, your intelligence, your willingness to talk about an issue that so many people don’t want you to say.
Jessie Romero Silver: People have been talking about rape culture since I was a freshman. And as a freshman coming in to that, it was very easy to just hear this and think this is just another typical part of college and that there’s nothing we can do about it and it’s out of our hands. But there is something that we can do about it. We’ve seen, especially at Cornell’s campus, that students who have spoken out against injustices have lost their time at those colleges, at those institutions, haven’t been able to finish their degree. And it is a fear, but we have to keep going. We have to keep moving forward.
Hundreds rallied in downtown Ithaca for “I Am Jane Doe” after a former Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging she was gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in 2024 sparked national outrage and a reopened criminal investigation.
Al menos 20 personas murieron y alrededor de 60 están desaparecidas en el derrumbe en la madrugada de este miércoles de un edificio residencial de seis plantas de Gaza que había sido dañado por los ataques israelíes y acogía a desplazados. Según los datos ofrecidos por el hospital Al Shifa y el Ministerio de Sanidad gazatí, entre los fallecidos hay 8 niños, 14 más resultaron heridos y 10 sobrevivieron al derrumbe. "Advertimos del riesgo de que se produzcan otros derrumbes como este, ya que en la Franja de Gaza, en las zonas habitadas por la población, hay cerca de 2.000 edificios en estas condiciones, y todos ellos están llenos de ciudadanos", dijo el portavoz de la Defensa Civil, Mahmud Basal, en declaraciones a los medios junto al edificio colapsado. Fuentes del equipo de rescate informaron de que se había avisado a sus habitantes de que tenía peligro de derrumbe por cuatro factores: la amplia destrucción por las bombas israelíes, la afectación a su estructura de las detonaciones que Israel lleva a cabo en edificios cercanos dentro de zona de Gaza bajo su control, el cambio de temperaturas y el hecho de que no estaba contruido para alojar a cien personas. Las mismas fuentes indicaron que no tienen esperanza de encontrar a más supervivientes bajo los escombros, ya que desde hace horas no han conseguido escuchas voces de ellos. Los rescatistas trabajan con tres máquinas excavadoras, que según fuentes de Defensa Civil son las únicas existentes en la Franja de Gaza debido a las dificultades que pone Israel a la entrada de material en el enclave palestino.
El vicesecretario de Hacienda del PP, Juan Bravo, ha aprovechado su pregunta al vicepresidente primero y ministro de Economía, Carlos Cuerpo, para cargar duramente contra el Gobierno. “A ustedes Ceuta, Melilla y España les queda muy grande”, ha asegurado. Bravo ha protagonizado uno de los momentos más tensos de la sesión de control al Gobierno de hoy cuando ha mostrado dos fotografías desde su escaño. En ellas se podían ver varios machetes de grandes dimensiones y un migrante gravemente herido. Según él esa es “la realidad que viven los ceutíes desde hace 48 días”.
Un panda gigante salvaje ha sorprendido a un residente del condado de Baoxing (ciudad de Ya'an, provincia de Sichuan, suroeste de China), que se encontró con el animal mientras subía a la montaña para supervisar su ganado. Para él no es una novedad porque este ha sido su cuarto encuentro con un panda gigante salvaje en lo que va de año. "¡Me hizo mucha ilusión volver a verlo!", ha comentado a medios locales. Según Yang, el panda gigante salvaje con el que se topó esta vez parecía muy robusto. No mostró nerviosismo ante la cercanía de las personas; caminó tranquilamente junto a ellas e incluso sostuvo la mirada. Finalmente, el panda gigante se adentró lentamente en el bosque situado junto al camino. Los osos panda gigantes ya no están en peligro de extinción según determinó la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN), que modificó su estatus en la Lista Roja en 2016, una decisión que el propio Gobierno de China respaldó de forma oficial tras constatar la recuperación de sus poblaciones en libertad. Sin embargo, si se considera una especie “vulnerable”, y no son frecuentes los avistamientos.
Los debates de varias mociones sobre la crisis de Ceuta centrarán este martes los plenos parlamentarios que comienzan este martes tanto en el Congreso como en el Senado, promovidos por el PP y Vox. En el Senado habrá este martes un pleno de jornada única, que se iniciará a las 11:00 horas con los debates de tres mociones, las tres propuestas por el PP, que tiene mayoría en la cámara, y las tres sobre Ceuta: sobre el supuesto aumento de agresiones sexuales en la ciudad autónoma, la crisis de seguridad nacional y la situación sanitaria. A las 16:00 horas, en la sesión de control, Alicia García preguntará "qué más tiene que pasar para que el ministro el Interior presente su dimisión", para comenzar una decena de preguntas del PP, casi todas enfocadas a la crisis ceutí, una semana después de otro pleno en el que ya reprobaron a cinco ministros por ese asunto. Por su parte, Vox preguntará al Gobierno cómo va a responder a "un próximo ataque de Marruecos". Además de las preguntas orales, el PP ha registrado una batería de preguntas escritas al Gobierno en el Senado sobre los dispositivos extraordinarios en Ceuta y los diferentes plazos para que se normalice la situación en la ciudad autónoma.