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Explained: The line item that exposes Google's chokehold

#460: A reader asked me what Google Network is. The answer is everything if you believe in publishing and want the ad funded open web to survive...

Jun 5 • Ricky Sutton

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#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

A tech billionaire, a beach and a dog who can't read signs

#458: What a small, brown act of civil disobedience tells us about how tech's power and a growing wealth imbalance is hurting the things we love...

May 21 • Ricky Sutton

Dow Jones's $1 billion bet on niche intelligence

#457: From a back room behind a soda shop to a billion dollars, it's building on its founders' playbook 144 years ago...

May 12 • Ricky Sutton and Stu Rogers

Heard the one about the billionaire fined by the SEC?

#458: US$1.5 million for a billionaire. US$2.6 billion from a jury. The numbers show it's up to us to regulate Big Tech now...

May 6 • Ricky Sutton

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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

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

Don’t Be Evil was always too low a bar

#452: What a cross-US drive and a six-mile hike taught me about why good people at Google keep making bad choices...

Apr 17 • Ricky Sutton and Arthur Morgan (IRL)

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

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Explained: The line item that exposes Google's chokehold

#460: A reader asked me what Google Network is. The answer is everything if you believe in publishing and want the ad funded open web to survive...

Jun 5 • 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

Judge says search harms news but publishers can't sue

#454: Analysis: Court dismisses five counts brought by US publishers against Google but the ruling gives publishers a map to win...

Mar 24 • 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

Mail, Gannett closer to payout as Google stunt backfires

#431: A high-stakes strategy to avoid a jury has gone awry, accelerating damages claims by two major publishers...

Jan 5 • 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

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

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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

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Meta insiders break cover on Australia's under-16s ban

#428: Two former chiefs reveal that Zuck knows how young kids are but chooses growth over safety - and how Australia can reset the world...

Dec 15, 2025 • Ricky Sutton, Kelly Stonelake, and Brian Boland

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AFP's AI chief shares how the global newsroom is adapting

#413: Sophie Huet reveals how she's retaining 1,700 heads, predicting news in 150 countries, and preparing for AIs to be her next customers...

Nov 9, 2025 • Ricky Sutton, Chris Duncan, and Sophie Huet

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Social justice groups target OpenAI for "coaching suicide"

#412: Suit alleges OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman designed a product that manipulates users psychologically and contributed to four deaths...

Nov 9, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Meta's misogynistic culture puts kids at risk, warns insider

#345: A director who worked on Zuck's Metaverse claims execs treat perverts preying on kids as "a distraction from business goals"...

Jun 14, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Meta on trial

Shareholders tell Zuck 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

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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Meta headed back to court on antitrust after FTC appeal

Breaking news: Just 64 days after Zuck emerged victorious with his social network intact, America's regulators have launched an appeal...

Jan 20 • Ricky Sutton

Apple on Trial

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Apple's perfect storm as profit, politics and privacy collide

#405: Apple's about to hit $4 trillion for the first time ever but it's far from cookies and cream inside its Oreo-shaped headquarters in Cupertino...

Oct 28, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

Publishers due millions as Oz rules app charges illegal

#365: Breaking: Judgement opens way for publishers to sell subs directly avoiding high fees and compensation going back years...

Aug 13, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

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Apple’s app stranglehold is now a political flashpoint

#348: Competition lawyer Gene Burrus reveals a landmark event that put Cupertino on a collision course with the most powerful people on Earth...

Jun 23, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

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We're at peak tech, and that's why Apple looks so rotten

Yeah yeah, no-one believes me but let me share some of the very real ways that you are being hurt by Cupertino's $363 billion juggernaut...

Aug 23, 2024 • Ricky Sutton

Apple shapeshifts to use privacy creds for profit - DoJ

Antitrust enforcers allege Apple wraps itself "in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct..."

Aug 21, 2024 • Ricky Sutton

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