Big Tech companies like Google wield vast amounts of power in their respective fields. But by casting themselves as underdogs against monolithic but amorphous ‘Big Tech’, news...
Publishers blink as Meta cuts off money and traffic
The already-strained relationship publishers had with the tech giants soured further in 2023 as attempts to force payments in Canada saw Meta block news from its platforms completely....
Big Noises: Stuart Forrest on clickability vs clickbait
Welcome to the latest season of Media Voices: Big Noises! This season, sponsored by Glide Publishing Platform, we’ll be talking to publishing people with something to say. Media Voices...
Meta finalises its divorce from publishers as other platforms battle chaotic management
With Meta going all-in on the metaverse, Instagram relentlessly cloning TikTok and Twitter in chaos, the days of reliable social media publishing strategies are over. Esther Kezia Thorpe...
Beyond the Twitter chaos, platforms and publishers re-evaluate their relationship
For our latest season of the Media Voices Podcast, kindly sponsored by Poool, we’ll be publishing ten episodes exploring the biggest trends of 2022 and how they affect publishers; from podcasts...
Do publishers need an exit strategy from social media?
We sometimes get readers responding to our daily newsletter with questions or asking us our thoughts on a particular issue. This question is from Mary Douglas, Head of Engagement at...
Facebook’s obsession with youth is misplaced. The key to success is in their aging user base
Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last week that he would be pivoting all Facebook’s future efforts to focus on the youth was tinged with panic at their aging user...