This week, we discuss how to turn the ship at two very different companies facing different challenges: CNN and Google. At CNN, former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson is looking to reinvent the still very profitable broadcaster into a more nimble, digitally focused operation as its viewership and cultural importance fade. Google is facing its biggest threat yet in the form of AI and signs with Gemini AI image search that there might just be something to those complaints about a “woke culture.” Plus: nostalgia for websites, invisible paywalls and Substack’s next chapter.
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Omnicom's Jonathan Nelson on Agencies & AI
Sex, AI and Advertising
The Power Play
Shifting Tides in the Media Business with Axios’s Sara Fischer
The Business of Influence with Emily Sundberg
Algorithmic Sameness with Kyle Chayka
Platform Shifts
Survivors
DDM's Neil Vogel on Navigating Change
The New Internet
Blending Realities with Rafat Ali
Game Over
The Gravity of Platforms
CES, Ackman’s War, News App Fails
Hit Pieces, Fairness, Drugs & VR
New Year, New Optimism
The New SERP, the New Syndication
Minisode: Troy and Alex discuss AI
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