Future Media Intelligence

Shareholders ambush Zuck because being dead is bad for business

#459: A few hours ago, Meta's shareholders demanded Zuck tie exec pay to protecting kids before fines and regulation crush Meta's growth...

May 28 • Ricky Sutton

Australia's second swing at making Big Tech pay for news

#457: Google and Meta paid $250 million-a-year for three years - then Meta walked. A new Incentive is designed to plug the gaps...

May 4 • Ricky Sutton

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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

How Spotify is squeezing its artists to dodge ads problems

#455: Four secret levers the world's favourite streamer is using to shift cash from creators to shareholders to hide its failing ad ambitions...

Apr 29 • Ricky Sutton

Advertisers launch $218 billion damages claim against Google

#454: The biggest claim in digital advertising history launches as the clock ticks down to Brinkema's ad tech ruling...

Apr 20 • Ricky Sutton

The fund that fought Murdoch is now after Snap

#453: Snap cut trust and safety and investors saw US$117 billion vaporise. Now Wall Street wants a major restructure…

Apr 20 • Ricky Sutton

Netflix's ad machine is locking in the next generation

#451: The streamer's $3 billion ad business just got its clearest roadmap yet - and it starts with a free gaming app for eight-year-olds...

Apr 17 • Ricky Sutton

The dodgy deal behind Insta's $500 billion ad empire

#449: Fourteen years ago today Zuck talked the FTC into letting him buy the app, but now his internal emails are shedding new light...

Apr 8 • Ricky Sutton

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

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