AI Overviews

Tech's legal nemesis opens up on threat to Google's shield

#466: Europe's top anti-platform lawyer breaks down the ramifications of a German court ruling Google's a publisher...

Jun 30 • Ricky Sutton

51:15

The Court of Karma ends Google’s $4 trillion free ride

#462: For 30 years, Section 230 gave Google a get out of jail free card that destroyed the publishing industry. A Munich court just cancelled it...

Jun 16 • Ricky Sutton

3:08

Why Google sent you that email this morning

#461: The hidden story behind Google’s new search personalisation, and the facts every publisher needs to know to prepare...

Jun 11 • Ricky Sutton

17:42

Publishers bleed $3.1 million a day as Brinkema delays

#456: AI Overviews is hoarding record ad revenue for Google. Latest earnings show the gap has more than doubled since it was ruled a monopolist...

Apr 30 • Ricky Sutton

The web's highwayman lands a pay rise

#452: Pichai's $692 million package is to protect the crown jewels, but there's a secret in the small print and a posse on the turnpike...

Mar 16 • Ricky Sutton

Is AI search reviving trust as the new ranking signal?

#432: Google is facing a US$198 billion ultimate innovator’s dilemma, leading Bauer’s Stuart Forrest to pose an AI future few have seen coming...

Jan 12 • Ricky Sutton and Stuart Forrest

How publishers can profit from privacy - DuckDuckGo

#408: Plus, The Daily Mail lands one on Google, Meta plunges on wild spending, Apple hits its first $100 billion quarter, and how to ride the creator…

Oct 31, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell

46:46

Nine pointers for publishers to win the next decade

#406: Plus, Apple maps its ad future, Meta discovers it can help kids, Australia backs creators, TikTok's fined over data failures, and Chinese…

Oct 29, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

After a year of tech shifts, how about this as a big idea...

#403: Plus, OpenAI launches a browser, Netflix sinks on earnings, Apple laps Disney, RayBans soar on Meta vision, and three letters that unlocked AI...

Oct 22, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

We'll figure it out, promises AI Overviews' creator

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

Oct 14, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

The Boston Globe sees quality convert as AI crushes clickbait

#397: The hype around AI search is deafening, but the numbers whisper something else - original reporting and loyal subs are the real moat...

Oct 13, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell

44:31

Google’s fall from reliable paperboy to monopoly mogul

#369: Jason Kint unpacks how AI Overviews slash audiences, steal ads, and gaslight publishers with empty promises of better clicks...

Aug 24, 2025 • Ricky Sutton, Chris Duncan, and Jason Kint

48:38

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