Since announcing his bid for the presidency in June 2015, Donald Trump has steadily accrued (and lost) a number of endorsements from celebrities — some of whom are more notable than others. 

At this year's boisterous Republican National Convention in July, Trump trotted out three of his lesser-known supporters — actor Scott Baio and reality TV stars Antonio Sabato Jr. and Willie Robertson — as speakers for the event.

Recently, in the aftermath of his lewd comments from a leaked 2005 "Access Hollywood" video, Trump lost the support of a few entertainers, including singer Aaron Carter, rapper Azealia Banks, and actress Kirstie Alley. 

Nonetheless, the Republican presidential nominee has retained a variety of endorsements in the entertainment world, from former sports stars Mike Tyson and Dennis Rodman to major musicians like Kid Rock and Kiss's Gene Simmons. 

Check out the 29 celebrities who are still endorsing Donald Trump for president:

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Jon Voight

In a statement to Breitbart, the actor said that he is supporting Donald Trump because "he's an answer to our problems." Voight also called Trump "funny, playful, and colorful, but most of all, he is honest."

He added, "There are many Republicans fighting to keep him from winning the Republican nomination. You know why? Because he has no bull to sell, and everyone will discover the bull most politicians spew out is for their own causes and benefits."

Voight doubled down on his support of the Republican nominee recently by calling for Trump supporters to express their outrage over Robert DeNiro's rebuke of Trump. 

Scott Baio

The "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi" star has previously said he likes how Trump communicates. ("He speaks like I speak," he told FoxNews’ Judge Jeanine Pirro.)

In his speech at the RNC in July, Baio said, "We need Donald Trump to fix this. Is Donald Trump a messiah? No, he’s just a man, a man who wants to give back to his country, America, the country that has given him everything.

"Hillary Clinton wants to be president for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump wants to be president for all of us,” he added. “So, of course, let’s make America great again, but let’s make America, America again."

Omarosa Manigault

One of the most famous "Apprentice" alums is not only a supporter of her former reality-show host, but she has also been named Trump's director of African-American outreach.

In an interview for a recent PBS documentary, Omarosa Manigault said that Trump's detractors will have to "bow down" to him when he becomes president.  

Omarosa has also been vocal in defending Trump's stance on women, telling CNN, "Donald Trump does not have a woman problem... Yes, he's said things off the cuff, but to take them and use them and try to apply them to all women, just because he doesn't like Rosie O'Donnell, doesn't mean he hates all women."

Media executive Barry Diller sounded off Wednesday on the suggestion that there may be more damaging tapes of Donald Trump from the archives of his shows "The Apprentice" and "The Celebrity Apprentice."

In a statement, "Apprentice" creator Mark Burnett and MGM, which owns Burnett's production company, said they have neither the ability nor right to release such unaired tapes of the current Republican presidential candidate.

But Diller said he doesn't buy that argument in a Wednesday interview with Politico.

"I think it’s total bulls---," Diller said of MGM's claim that "various contractual and legal requirements" prevent it from releasing footage of Trump.

"There are no legal obligations,” Diller told Politico. “To who? For what? I mean, the legal obligations are they own the copyright. They can do whatever they want with it."

Diller is the billionaire chairman of IAC, a media and internet company that owns OkCupid, Match, Tinder, and The Daily Beast, among others.

In 2005 footage leaked Friday, the real-estate mogul was heard bragging about how his celebrity status allowed him to get away with groping women.

The tape became a bombshell in the 2016 presidential race.

Diller, a Hillary Clinton supporter, called the footage “so astounding it’s almost beyond belief.”

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Though "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" won't hit screens until December 16, you will see a lot of the movie's star Felicity Jones beforehand.

The British actress will be playing opposite Tom Hanks in the Ron Howard-directed "Inferno" on October 28 and is currently making the festival rounds for her Oscar-worthy performance in "A Monster Calls," leading up to its release in late December.

But Jones, 32, became an overnight star thanks to being cast as the bad girl turned Rebel fighter Jyn Erso in "Rogue One," the first "Star Wars" standalone film. And in a recent Hollywood Reporter feature we got a little more insight into the movie and how she scored the lead role.

Stories have been swirling about the reshoots for the movie, and Jones addressed them, saying, "Obviously when you come to the edit, you see the film come together and you think, 'Actually, we could do this better, and this would make more sense if we did this.'"

But she also downplays the reshoots as being something that often happens on big films.

"I've done it so many times," she said. "I mean, you wouldn't just give your first draft on this story, would you?"

The THR story also touches on the casting of Jones, who received a seven-figure payday for the role (no other cast member even got a mid-six-figure deal, the story reports).

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" star Rooney Mara and Tatiana Maslany from "Orphan Black" were also in the running to play Jyn. The final decision came down to Disney chairman Alan Horn, and according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, it was Jones' fighter quality that won her the part. 

"Alan was incredibly excited by Felicity's work and loved her as an actress," Kennedy said. "She's relatively petite, but you would never know it. I mean, she comes off very strong and physical and capable, and all of those things were the qualities that we were looking for."

Jones said the feisty Jyn we see was inspired by watching a lot of music videos from British rock band Florence + the Machine before shooting on "Rogue" started in August of 2015 in London.

"So much of Jyn is movement," Jones said. "It became a very important part of finding her. She walks almost a bit like a caged animal. Her fight sequences become like dances."

Read the entire Jones profile at THR.

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In a new lawsuit against BET, actress Gabrielle Union accuses the cable network of ordering more episodes than previously agreed on in order to avoid paying her full salary, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

According to the lawsuit, BET ordered 20 episodes for the fourth season of "Being Mary Jane," starring Union. The suit alleges that BET is trying to combine seasons four and five, so that it can avoid giving Union a contracted raise for the fifth season. She currently makes $150,000 per episode, which is supposed to increase to $165,000 per episode on season five.

The suit also accuses BET of breaking a promise to Union that the network would never go over 13 episodes. Union's contract currently holds her to a 10-episode minimum and a 26-episode maximum per season due to a corporate policy. But Union's lawsuit states that BET's then-general counsel Darrell Walker agreed to no more than 13 episodes per season.

Union — known for "Bring It On," "10 Things I Hate About You," and "Bad Boys II" — said she agreed to do "Being Mary Jane" because the shorter seasons allowed her to continue working in movies.

The first season consisted of eight episodes, the second season had 12, and the third had 10. After season two, Union's contract was changed to include an executive producer credit and a guarantee that Union gets paid for 13 episodes even if BET doesn't order that many episodes.

Union is suing for at least $1 million in damages and for her contract to be revised to reflect the 13-episode limit per season.

In response to the suit, BET Networks told Business Insider in a statement, "While we hold Gabrielle Union in the highest esteem, we feel strongly that we are contractually well within our rights and are committed to reaching a swift and positive resolution in this matter."

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For over five decades and 70-plus movies, German director Werner Herzog has given us some of the most powerful stories ever put on-screen. At 74 years old, he has no plans to slow down.

Known for his on-the-fringes tales ranging from the fictional ("Fitzcarraldo") to the documentary ("Grizzly Man"), Herzog's latest is no different. In "Into the Inferno" (available on Netflix October 28), teaming with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, Herzog travels the globe to look at the majesty of active volcanoes. His journey leads him even to North Korea, where he's able to capture visuals of the country that have never been shown to the Western world before.

Business Insider talked to Herzog about getting into North Korea, his attempt to interview Kim Jong-un, his desire to be a Bond villain, and why he believes he's the only director in the industry who is "clinically sane."

Jason Guerrasio: With the backdrop of the US election and conflicts among countries and religions, it's fascinating that something like a movie on volcanoes can be so powerful. Did you get that sense?

Werner Herzog: No. [Laughs] I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes. It was a subject that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"]. Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea. That was actually our very first shoot and it's almost impossible to enter North Korea with a camera as a professional. It was an extraordinary coincidence and an extraordinary chance that I wouldn't like to let pass.

We actually started filming in North Korea when no financing was secured at all. We just went out and did it.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Guerrasio: In some ways, was being able to shoot in North Korea more interesting than the volcanoes angle? 

Herzog: Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano [Mt. Paektu] at the boarder with China and somehow transferred it to the leadership and the dynamics of their revolution. So everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

Guerrasio: Did you try to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un?

Herzog: Yes. There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.

Guerrasio: So what did you end up addressing him as in the letter?

Herzog: I do not recall, but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

Guerrasio: What would have been the major question you would have wanted to ask him?

Herzog: I don't know, but it would have been fascinating. And nobody has been able to do it so if he invites me to do some appendix for the film I will fly to North Korea and of course speak to him on camera. But it's an illusion, it's not going to happen.

Guerrasio: What was the biggest highlight of your time in North Korea?

Herzog: I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.

Guerrasio: Did they need to see your footage before you left the country?

Herzog: Yes. The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape. It wasn't that important so I agreed. And I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.

Guerrasio: You have said that looking inside a volcano gives you a sense of awe. Did it become hypnotic? Were you interested in getting closer to the lava?

Herzog: Not for me because I think I'm a prudent filmmaker and Clive and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

Guerrasio: Do you feel you've always been like that as a filmmaker?

Herzog: Yes.

Guerrasio: Even making "Fitzcarraldo"? "Burden of Dreams," the documentary that shows the making of the movie, shows you as a maverick filmmaker who took chances — some would call them careless.

Herzog: The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.

Guerrasio: Do you regret doing the rapids scene on the boat in which your cameraman was injured?

Herzog: My crew actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own. If you really want to do it, I'm going to do it. And of course in this case the cinematographer injured his hand, it was badly cut, but you have to see my work as a whole. I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

Guerrasio: How was it working with Netflix. Did they give notes?

Herzog: No, I had complete freedom. They knew roughly what I was doing. They knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that. They trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant. The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

Guerrasio: I know you still dabble in acting —

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

Herzog: I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Guerrasio: Oh. My apologies.

Herzog: As long as I have to play a villain. No, I'm joking.

Guerrasio: But have you been interested in doing a studio role since "Jack Reacher," in which you played the villain Zec?

Herzog: If the part is really good of course I would like to do it. I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing a screenplay, directing, editing, acting, you just name it. I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing. [Laughs]

Guerrasio: Did you get any big offers for roles after "Jack Reacher"?

Herzog: Yes, but the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

Guerrasio: Can you reveal any?

Herzog: No, they were silly stuff. But "Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

Guerrasio: You were very good at it.

Herzog: Yes, on-screen. In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.

Guerrasio: You live in LA. I don't know if you watched any of the last debate, but has our election interested you at all?

Herzog: [Laughs] I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.

Guerrasio: Would you ever want to make a documentary about this election?

Herzog: No. The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president? [Laughs]

Guerrasio: Are you announcing something right now?

Herzog: No, I'm just joking. I wanted to end this on a funny note.

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Pop singer Selena Gomez is reportedly in rehab for the second time since 2014, Us Weekly reports.

Gomez, who was diagnosed in 2014 with lupus, an autoimmune disease, has reportedly been at a Tennesee rehabilitation facility since August, when she announced that she'd be taking "time off" to focus on her health. 

Sources told Us Weekly that the singer has taken the rehab stint to manage mental-health issues related to lupus — including "anxiety, panic attacks, and depression," three common side effects of the difficult disease. 

According to the magazine, Gomez's treatment facility is "private" and "quiet" but "super-intense," and it's located outside of Nashville. 

As a result, Gomez has canceled the 34 remaining dates on her "Revival" tour, which was slated to run through December. She has also stopped recording music while she recovers.

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Netflix's US streaming catalog has shrunk by over 50% since 2012, but Netflix has always argued that the quality of the material keeps getting better.

In 2013, Netflix began producing original shows and movies, which were more expensive but gave subscribers something they couldn't get anywhere else. 

"You can imagine that we could have a million low-quality videos that almost no one wants to watch and then say, hey, we have the largest catalog in the world," Netflix's Carlos Gomez-Uribe told Business Insider in a recent interview. "What matters is how many videos are people actually watching." 

However, there's some evidence that Netflix is actually losing quality titles as it invests more in originals.

Here's one example: Netflix's selection of the top movies ever made, at least by IMDB ratings, has gone down in the last two years by a substantial amount.

In August 2014, a Reddit user tracked how many of IMDB's top 250 movies list were available to stream on Netflix. At the time, 49 were available, which is around 20% of the total. Streaming Observer, a blog that tracks the streaming industry, decided to revisit the list and see if it had changed. They found that in September, only 31 of those movies were available, or about 12% of the total.

Netflix has repeatedly says that its focus moving forward is on "exclusive" titles: either "originals" it makes itself, or shows and movies not available on other streaming services. Getting great movies is part of the goal, but it's also important that those classics aren't available on Amazon, Hulu, and so on. The goal is to get you hooked enough on Netflix to keep you paying that $9.99 per month.

Here are the IMDB top 250 movies that were available to stream on Netflix as of September, according to Streaming Observer:

1. Pulp  Fiction
2. Forrest Gump
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Back to the Future
6. Gladiator
7. Sunset Boulevard
8. Cinema Paradiso
9. Django Unchained
10. The Shining
11. American Beauty
12. Reservoir Dogs
13. Braveheart
14. Amélie
15. To Kill a Mockingbird
16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
17. Amadeus
18. The Hunt
19. Good Will Hunting
20. V for Vendetta
21. Trainspotting
22. No Country for Old Men
23. Into the Wild
24. There Will Be Blood
25. Spotlight
26. The Princess Bride
27. Zootopia
28. The Truman Show
29. Jaws
30. Ip Man
31. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Netflix declined to comment.

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Winter has definitely arrived for "Game of Thrones" and its fans, and they're bummed.

Not only has it been months since the show's sixth season aired, but the show's seventh season will be arriving later than usual. The producers had to start production later this year in order to catch the — you guessed it — winter season in real life.

So what now? What could fill the void "Thrones" has left behind in our lives and TV schedules?

Business Insider worked with Taykey, an advertising technology company that can pinpoint specific audiences and analyze what's trending for them, to discover which shows hardcore "Game of Thrones" fans talk about when they're not talking about "Thrones."

Here are the seven most talked-about shows among "Thrones" fans, according to Taykey:

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"DC's Legends of Tomorrow" (The CW)

This crew of superheroes travel back and forth in time to protect the current timeline from a host of threats.

"Orphan Black" (BBC America)

After witnessing the murder of someone who looks exactly like her, Sarah assumes the woman's life. She'll soon learn that she's a clone and there are others. Plus, someone is trying to kill her and the other clones.

"American Horror Story" (FX)

From Ryan Murphy, this anthology series has a different setting and story each season. Some of the cast members do return as new characters on different seasons.

If Skinnygirl founder and author Bethenny Frankel could time travel, there's one thing she'd go back and say one thing to her 20-year-old self: It's okay not to have everything figured out.

During a recent interview with Business Insider, the entrepreneur reminisced about taking a bartending course upon graduating from college.

Frankel has never actually worked as a bartender, but she did go on to found a cocktail business that Forbes estimates was sold for $100 million in 2011.

"It doesn't matter if you're bar tending or selling Christmas trees or working at a law firm," Frankel says. "Every single thing you do — if you do it to the best of your ability — will one day be valuable and will eventually be used in some unexpected way."

So there's no need to worry if you don't have a master plan in your twenties. Work hard at whatever you're doing. Once you discover your passion, you'll find a way to leverage your past experience.

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Comedian and "Catastrophe" star Rob Delaney is calling out all the GOP candidates who initially endorsed the presidential run of Donald Trump and have since unendorsed him because of his lewd comments on a leaked "Access Hollywood" tape.

Working with a Democratic fundraising site, Act Blue, Delaney has set up a campaign called "Challenging Opportunistic GOP Candidates" to affect the races of these GOP senators, congressman, governors, and state legislators who are seeking reelection. Delaney and Act Blue are raising money for their Democratic opponents, essentially in an attempt to defeat the Republicans who Delaney believes are hypocritical.

Delaney has stated in the past that he's a Hillary Clinton supporter.

In less than 72 hours, the campaign has raised over $50,000.

"You are welded to Trump until the end," Delaney wrote in a Tumblr post. "The people who want it both ways; the people who got on the train, and now want to get off. F--- you baby, you’re on the train till it crashes into the American Electorate at full speed."

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In the HBO series "Westworld," Ed Harris plays a mysterious "man in black" who gets extremely violent with the hosts in the theme park. Aside from the fact that he is a "VIP" guest, we know very little about his character. But some eagle-eyed fans of the show on Reddit have picked up on some clues in the first few episodes that possibly explain who he really is. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

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Warner Bros. is close to buying Machinima, a YouTube network for gaming videos, in a deal valuing the company under $100 million, reports the Information. 

That's barely more than $92 million in venture capital the company has raised since being founded in 2000. Warner was one of the previous investors.

The name "Machinima" is the term for making videos using the in-game graphics of a computer game, like the popular "Red Vs. Blue" series, filmed using the "Halo" series.

Machinima, the company, was designed as a network of YouTube videos and podcasts to give creators making those videos a broader reach.

Over the years, the Machinima empire grew, taking venture capital from the likes of Google and Warner Bros. itself as it expanded to original content based on franchises like "Street Fighter," "Mortal Kombat," "Justice League," and "Transformers." Circa 2012, Machinima's valuation was said to be $250 million.

But as the video ad market cooled off, Machinima's fortunes reversed, and it's been struck by layoffs and big executive changes. In 2015, the company settled a complaint from the FTC that it had been paying "influencers" to promote Microsoft's Xbox One game console in videos without disclosing that the deals were part of a Microsoft marketing campaign.

Warner Bros. actually had the opportunity to take advantage of its stake in the company and buy Machinima outright earlier this year for twice its annual revenue, or $150 million, reports the Information, but didn't want to pay that much.

Warner Bros. declined to comment. Machinima did not respond to a request for comment at press time.

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Facebook is turning to its Groups feature in its ongoing quest to attract more ad dollars.

The company confirmed that it was test delivering ads in the feature to select users across four countries, according to TechCrunch. Facebook said it was testing Groups ads on both mobile and desktop in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, with plans to evaluate responses from users and advertisers before rolling it out more broadly.

The Groups feature counts just over 1 billion members (or 59% of Facebook’s total user count), allowing users to bond over shared hobbies or interests.

The move makes sense for Facebook, as the company is set to hit maximum ad load capacity in its News Feed section by the middle of next year. Available space for brands is drying up on the platform’s main venue for advertising, so finding new streams of revenue is imperative.

The social giant's latest ambition builds upon the company’s recent endeavors to increase their advertising avenues. Most notably, the platform has been testing mid-roll ads in their Live video offering, Sponsored Messages from brands in its Messenger app, and its recent launch of Workplace. Facebook’s market share in mobile advertising is expected to jump to 12% this year from 9% two years ago, and increased ad revenue growth will be key to their future success.  

Consumers continue to increase their time spent consuming digital media, while advertisers continue to increase their ad budgets into digital channels.

The influx is not expected to let up in the near future. The US digital advertising industry will continue to experience remarkable growth through 2021 to reach nearly $100 billion in annual revenue, driven primarily by the sustained migration of ad dollars from traditional TV to digital video and the continued increase of social spending. 

Overall, the strong growth of the US digital ad market can largely be attributed to increased time spent by consumers on digital media and brands' increased comfort with allocating budgets to digital formats, particularly on digital video. In a recent 2016 survey of almost 400 US ad agencies and marketers, the IAB found that two-thirds of respondents plan on increasing spending on digital video in the next year. 

Moreover, mobile will become the top destination for digital ad spending as advertisers continue to attempt to resolve the disconnect between the rapid growth in time spent on phones and tablets and the relatively small share of ad budgets that are allocated to such platforms — known as the mobile opportunity gap. In fact, mobile is set to eclipse desktop ad spend by 2018.

Dylan Mortensen, senior research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on U.S. digital media ad revenue that forecasts revenue trends over the next five years and outlines the key growth drivers for overall digital ad revenue in the U.S.

Here are some key points from the report:

• US digital ad revenue is expected to reach nearly $100 billion by 2021, according to BI Intelligence estimates. This represents compound annual growth of 8% from the $68.9 billion expected in 2016. 
• Mobile is positioned to become the top destination for digital ad spending as advertisers continue to attempt to close the "mobile opportunity gap."
• Digital video advertising will grow faster than any other segment over the next five years, as consumers shift time spent online to phones and tablets. Revenue in this category is forecast to rise from $8.5 billion in 2016 to $23 billion in 2021.
• Social advertising in all formats is gaining traction and will be among the key drivers of digital ad growth in the next five years. Social ad revenue is poised to climb to $30.8 billion by 2021, up from $15.5 billion this year.
• Artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and sponsored content will help propel further digital ad growth in the next decade.

In full, the report:

• Forecasts US digital ad revenue through 2021.
• Highlights the rising popularity of digital media with consumers and brands.
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• Outlines emerging technologies that will help propel ad growth in the next decade.

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Donald Trump wanted to bring O.J. Simpson on "The Celebrity Apprentice," but NBC wouldn't have it.

CNN unearthed a 2008 interview on "The Howard Stern Show" in which Trump said that bringing Simpson on would've been the ultimate ratings grab.

"I do have to tell you about O.J. and 'The Apprentice,'" the current Republican presidential candidate told Stern at the time. "NBC went totally crazy when I wanted to put O.J. on 'The Apprentice.'"

Trump would've extended the invitation to Simpson even though he believed that the former NFL star killed his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and was in the middle of trial proceedings for a 2007 robbery.

"I hadn't spoken to him in years, I don't like people that kill their wives," he told the shock jock. "Does that make sense? Does that make me a disloyal person?"

But as Trump has said many times in this election, he's fiercely dedicated to the success of his businesses and that apparently extended to "The Apprentice."

"Well, you know, in your business, there's a thing called ratings," he responded when Stern asked him why he would ask Simpson to be on "The Celebrity Apprentice." 

"So I know that if you come up with a cure for cancer, and if you put it on, and if it doesn't get ratings, they will not broadcast it," he continued. "Now, I know this, if I put O.J. on, huge ratings. Oh, forget it, 35 million people."

Trump refused to confirm if he had actually reached out to Simpson with an offer, though the real-estate mogul said, "O.J. would've done it."

NBC had officially already squashed the possibility ahead of this interview when it released a statement to press in April 2008: "NBC representatives have never considered O.J. Simpson for the next season of 'The Apprentice,' nor will."

At the time, "The Apprentice" ratings were running out of steam. Viewership for season six averaged just 7.5 million viewers. The next season, Trump and NBC introduced the celebrity version, which then scored 11 million viewers.

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"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" will be the very first "Star Wars" spin-off film and is set to hit theaters this December. We went to New York Comic Con to ask fans what they're excited to see in the first movie not to focus on the Skywalker family. 

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We face an election with two historically unpopular candidates in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and for various reasons, different groups of people think they're unqualified to be our US president.

"Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" hit the streets in a web extra to talk to Donald Trump supporters about why they think, despite all her years of experience in politics, Clinton isn't prepared for the Oval Office.

The show's correspondent Allana Harkin found some very revealing answers. After listing her credentials as a senator, First Lady, and Secretary of State, one Trump voter then asks, "What has she done?"

Another offered a more cringe-inducing line about her womanhood: "I would be worried about us hopefully not going to war during her menstrual cycle," he said.

And another man took a sexual turn, saying, "She couldn't even take care of her husband in the White House, let alone the country."

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Let's face it: "Minecraft," despite being the biggest game in the world, is pretty daunting for some people. It plops you down into this gigantic, blocky world, with a near-unlimited amount of things to do and precious little direction for players who want a more guided experience.

Enter "Dragon Quest Builders," a brand new PS4 game spun off from the long-running, enormously popular "Dragon Quest" series of Japanese role-playing games. It takes familiar tropes from classic RPGs like questing and narrative and implants them into an impressive-looking "Minecraft" derivative.

Here's how it all works:

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In "Dragon Quest Builders," you are a plucky hero with the ability to save the world. Specifically, dark forces hilariously robbed everyone in the world of the ability to create things, except for you. It's time to rebuild the world from the ground up.

"Dragon Quest," by the way, is a cultural force in Japan. The characters for each game are designed by "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toyoyama, for example. It's not as big in the west, but in Japan, it's beloved.

Anyway, don't let the cutesy anime art style of "Dragon Quest Builders" fool you — this game is "Minecraft" through and through. That blocky world below is yours to mine and shape as you see fit.

Seth Meyers thinks Hillary Clinton should be able to "kick back" and simply watch the presidential polls go in her favor in the next few weeks, but it's not that simple.

The "Late Night" host pointed out on his Wednesday show that, Donald Trump's own recent controversy aside, Clinton faces a dilemma in her ties to Wall Street and a series of leaked emails speaking to the issue that could hurt her with young voters, in particular because of what he sees as her unwillingness to be honest.

"Now Hillary could speak directly to those voters' concerns about what they see as a fundamentally corrupt economic system and offer ways to address that corruption — but nah," Meyers joked in his "Closer Look" segment.

He pointed out that Clinton has brought Al Gore with her on the campaign to "win over millennials," a plan he's clearly wary about.

"What, you couldn't get Matlock?" Meyers said.

In one of the more damaging comments from the alleged leaked Clinton emails containing transcripts of speeches to banks, she implied that Wall Street insiders are the ones who are most suited to regulate Wall Street.

"You think billionaires regulating themselves is a good idea? Have you met your opponent?" Meyers said.

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Facebook lets people use professional camera equipment to shoot live video, and now Twitter does too.

On Thursday, Twitter announced Periscope Producer, which lets media partners use professional-grade video cameras and mixing software to broadcast live video from Twitter's Periscope app.

Normal Periscope users are only able to live stream from their phone's camera.

Twitter's main focus as of late has been securing and promoting live video streaming deals like NFL games and the presidential debates. Periscope Producer is clearly designed to promote live show broadcasts on Twitter's platform, and the social network already has partners like Dancing with the Stars, Fusion, and Louis Vuitton using the software. 

“Allowing people to create and share produced live video on Periscope has always been part of our vision and opens up new types of content for everyone to watch live," Periscope CEO and Twitter board member Kayvon Beykpour said in a statement. "Periscope allows anyone to watch something with an audience, and now they’re able to watch daily shows, large and small-scale events and other live video with compelling content from creators they know and love.”

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President Obama loves sci-fi — not necessarily for the tech, but for what it can tell us about humanity.

In an interview with Wired, Obama talked about his favorite show growing up: "Star Trek."

"What made the show lasting was it wasn’t actually about technology," he said. "It was about values and relationships. Which is why it didn’t matter that the special effects were kind of cheesy and bad, right? They’d land on a planet and there are all these papier-mâché boulders. But it didn’t matter because it was really talking about a notion of a common humanity and a confidence in our ability to solve problems."

Obama put together a list of his eight favorite sci-fi movies and series that "will expand your mind" as part of a Wired special issue the president guest-edited for the magazine. 

Here they are:

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No. 8 — 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage' (1980)

Reason: "It fed my lifelong fascination with space."

No. 7 — 'The Matrix' (1999)

Reason: "It asks basic questions about our reality—and looks very cool"

No. 6 — 'The Martian' (2015)

Reason: "It shows humans [are] problem solvers."