Future Media Intelligence

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

#443: 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 antitrust 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

The ad business hidden in Apple's top secret vault

#439: The best-selling author of Apple in China details how its rising ad ambitions are built on a tinderbox of trust, dependence and tension...

Feb 9 • Ricky Sutton

Ads led Meta to link 1.4 million kids with predators in a day

#437: Social's record profits disguise a social tragedy, leading Australia and countries around the world to act on child harms...

Feb 2 • Ricky Sutton and Nathan Witkin

Denmark steps up to take tech to court to force AI deals

#439: It says it wants a fair exchange for Big Tech using publishers' content, and 99 per cent of the countries media is lined up behind it...

Jan 27 • Ricky Sutton and Chris Duncan

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Netflix’s ad threat and why it's buying backwards

#436: The streamer just posted monster ad numbers but now it's shopping for yesterday’s model to fuel tomorrow's growth...

Jan 26 • Ricky Sutton

Apple will pay Google $1 billion for Siri's AI brain transplant

#435: A Silicon Valley insider reveals why the smartphone rivals are burying the axe to keep the iPhone relevant in the AI era...

Jan 22 • 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

Denmark's strategy to front run Europe on Big Tech deals

#430: Apple's been referred to the police, Meta and TikTok faces fines the size of Bahrain's GDP and OpenAI and LinkedIn are headed to court...

Dec 29, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Chris Duncan

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