Future Media Intelligence

Jurors candycrush Meta and Youtube "to make them feel it"

#456: Cupcakes, gazelles, and a jar of candy convinced a jury Meta and YouTube engineered addiction in children - and it could change the web...

Mar 26 • Ricky Sutton

Live: Meta loses landmark case for failing to protect kids

#455: Court hears Meta put a $270 price tag on teen users - and fought to hook them with addictive features...

Mar 25 • Ricky Sutton and Kelly Stonelake

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Musk's $44 billion Matryoshka is cracked open

#453: A jury found the billionaire misled Twitter investors in one of the largest securities verdicts in US history. He now faces billions in damages...

Mar 23 • Ricky Sutton

Pinterest just fired a starting gun in a retail media war

#450: A hedge fund just bet US$1 billion that a mood board app can out-do Amazon, but it puts publishers bang in the crossfire...

Mar 4 • Ricky Sutton

What the first hot war of the AI era tells me about journalism

#449: AI just proved it's the future of news delivery so here are nine ways publishers can build the commercial model to profit from it...

Mar 3 • Ricky Sutton

Nvidia's a runaway train but who's checking the rails?

#447: The chipmaker's running the world but its empire is built on chummy deals, a chip war with China, and a very tiny, very vulnerable island...

Feb 27 • Ricky Sutton

Ads ain't broke, they've been stolen by Google and Meta

#446: Bob Hoffman's spent decades warning the ad industry it's being conned - now the antitrust trials are finally proving him right...

Feb 25 • Ricky Sutton and Bob Hoffman

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Publishers react to Zuck's mobster offer on AI

#445: "This is one of those existential tests that we’ll look back on in a few years and realise it was the day the game changed...”

Feb 23 • Ricky Sutton, Lisa Sygutek, Brent Jolly, Benoit Chartier, and Jason Kint

Meta's mobster's bargain - sell us AI or stay blocked

#444: Social's #1 bully has gone live on TV offering a dirty protection racket to reinstate news if they agree to feed its next big bet...

Feb 16 • Ricky Sutton

Google enforcer's fired - now it's down to these guys

#443: Meet the trio tasked with deciding what Google must share - and with whom - after the shock firing of the DOJ's antitrust chief...

Feb 16 • Ricky Sutton

Snap’s rare profit comes with a teen-sized asterisk

#442: When Wall Street bailed up CEO Evan Spiegel for selling ads to teens, he said it wasn't material - but was that true?

Feb 11 • Ricky Sutton

Meta's $200 billion ad machine and the price we're all paying

#441: Meta keeps hitting milestones, but it now comes with the warning that youth-related trials may have a material impact...

Feb 10 • Ricky Sutton

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