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From Bard to worse during media’s cold snap
Today:
Is media’s deep freeze finally hitting bottom?
Countdown to the end of the Meta money
Digital growth plateaus
What to look out for in the Southern Cross Austereo financial update
Google’s image generator Gemini’s rogue woke embarrassment
Further reading:
Brisbane Times: Former digital darling Vice Media to slash jobs, shutter website
Unmade: ‘Very close to the bottom’: As bad as it gets (or as good as it gets?) for Nine and ARN Media
Australian Financial Review: Australian media’s $70m lifeline ends in months. Meta isn’t picking up
Brisbane Times: $1b for journalism at risk in new warning over Google, Facebook
The Australian: Online advertising market spend was $14.7bn in 2023, slowest annual growth since 2020
Sweathead: How brands are using AI
The Verge: How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct
Unmade: Why Australia's marketers need to worry about the lack of local artificial intelligence laws
Today’s episode features Tim Burrowes, Abe Udy and Cat McGinn
Time to leave you to start your week.
Editing was courtesy of Abe’s Audio, the people to talk to about voiceovers, sound design and podcast production.
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StW: Media's 'extinction level event'; What to expect from SCA's financials; Another Google AI brand blunder