AI Overviews

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

The editor taking Google to court to kill AI Overviews

#355: Exclusive: The fearless media exec behind the legal fight to ban Google’s AI Overviews opens up for the first time...

Jul 14, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

52:44

Is a mass of media niches a better model for growth?

#346: Business Insider has blamed traffic volatility for hundreds of job losses, but is this just a sign of the end of big publishing? And what comes…

Jun 15, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Chris Duncan

1:05:38

AI Overviews busted with its hands in the till - again

#327: Google AI exec admits his search team steals publisher content despite half the world's news providers officially opting out...

May 7, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Newsflash: DoJ and Google clash in court over break-up

#310: The US Department of Justice has begun outlining how it wants the ad, search and app store monopolist broken up...

Apr 22, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Meet the exec tasked with screwing up Google search

#296: Big one today as the new head of Google search reveals how she intends to end text and shift content discovery behind a paywall...

Apr 1, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

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