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#399: Google chief promises premium content still matters. Plus, AI tramp prank causes chaos, pubs win in the UK, crypto crashes, and more...

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Ricky Sutton
Oct 14, 2025
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Welcome to Future Media #399, where 18k media and tech execs in 95 countries meet at the epicentre of Big Tech and Big Media.

Let’s start - as we always do - by welcoming new subs joining overnight from Meta, Al Jazeera, top-end-of-town headhunters Spencer Stuart, publisher-friendly AI ProRata, international law firm Clifford Chance, telco goliath Singtel, Gartner, News Corp Australia, global news agency AFP in Paris, sports programmatic agency Interplay, Australia’s ABC, and many more.

Special thanks to new paid subs from Digital Content Next, The Financial Times, Australia’s Mi3, DigitalBox, the Independent Publisher Alliance, The Daily Mail, Adobe, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The smartest ones are the paid subs - unlocking 1.6 million words of reporting and analysis on a sustainable future for news.

Upgrade to paid

And before I forget. I had a chuckle laugh this week seeing how many media CEOs and tech board members sign up using personal emails.

What’s that about? Everyone’s welcome 👋😉

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