Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell
Episodes
How a smartarse stunt might cost Google billions
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Google pulled a move only a trillion-dollar giant would try. It literally wrote the US government a cashier’s cheque for a little over $2...
Australia's news bargaining code must widen to AI, TikTok and Apple
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia was the first to make tech pay for journalism with a trailblazing News Media Bargaining Code. Five years on, those deals with Google and Met...
eSafety chief says Big Tech smear tactics targeted her kids
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On December 10, Australia will drop a legal hammer and become the first country in the world to ban social media accounts for under-16s. Facebook, Ins...
Journalism’s warrior taking the fight to DC and tech’s doorstep
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're joined by one of the most influential figures in journalism. Danielle Coffey is President and CEO of the News/Media Alliance and was ...
Advertisers see no value in news but Google knows society will pay
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s former global news chief has a blunt warning: The world is quietly voting against facts. And when Google Search throttled news in Australia...
Google’s news chief reveals sharing traffic was never the goal
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Gingras has been one of the most influential figures at the intersection of news and tech over the past 40 years. He’s seen it from multiple...
Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a line we’ve all heard, but in an AI-powered world of constant surveillanc...
The Boston Globe sees quality convert as AI crushes clickbait
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Choquette heads SEO at The Boston Globe and has lived in the blast radius of Google since 2009, but he’s a numbers guy and he’...
It’s cat and mouse, but we will charge the AIs - Cloudflare
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech giant Cloudflare jolted the tech and publishing world when it announced it was stepping in as a traffic cop to protect publishers from AI's train...
Time to pull a dusty legal bomb from the basement?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antitrust professor John Newman - veteran of both the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission - hasn’t minced words about Google’...
Ad scion reveals the critical value of journalism
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ad chief Joshua Lowcock was a key witness alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in the antitrust trial that exposed Google’s dominance in both searc...
Why I quit journalism to help the FTC break-up Big Tech
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shoshana Wodinsky was a tech reporter for Gizmodo, AdWeek, and MarketWatch until reporting wasn’t enough. So she joined the US Federal Trade Commiss...
He sued Google, and won. Now he gets to decide its future
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has led the charge against Google’s trio of monopolies in search, ad tech and app stores.As lead counsel f...
How big a job is extracting Chrome from Google?
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four billion people use Chrome to access the web but after three antitrust losses, the Department of Justice has demanded the browser is spun out and ...
Advocacy group calls on DOJ to coordinate remedies in Google antitrust trials
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Cowen of Preiskel & Co joins Alan Chapell to discuss Google's antitrust woes, and the Movement for an Open Web's call for DOJ to more effectiv...
Apple is in Brussels to explain its DMA compliance with the EU Commission
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky Sutton and Chapell talk with competition and regulatory attorney Gene Burrus about Apple's participation in EU Digital Markets Act workshops. Se...
TikTok hurt kids in $16 billion fraud, alleges US
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York's Attorney General has alleged it lied and “engaged in repeated and persistent fraud” to build its $16 billion business in America, inclu...
Trump wanted Google's head on a stake - expert
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Respected attorney and regulatory analyst Megan Gray sat in the pews through Google’s recent search remedies trial. After terms at the Federal Trade...
Step-by-step guide to breaking Google's ad tech
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to believe that Google's going to be broken. It feels safer to hide behind the sofa and pretend it isn’t happening.Only it is coming, an...
How long can Big Tech steamroller the law?
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech's momentum and power has enabled it to roll over rules and laws that have existed for centuries. Individually, this might make sense to spur...
EU competition law with Damien Geradin
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky and Alan are joined by EU competition lawyer Damien Geradin of Geradin Partners. Damien has done great work helping to address the competition i...
Judge to Apple: I've had enough!
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antitrust lawyer Gene Burrus joins Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell to discuss the implications of Apple's approach to complying with competition rulings...
Google antitrust remedies - how Publisher can win the Peace
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell walk through the implications of Google's antitrust remedies on the publishing industry - as they struggle to win the pe...
Kids are dying on social, but can US laws protect them?
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US Senators passed a bill called KOSA by 91 votes to three only for it to be derailed by Meta lobbying, leaving parents heartbroken and defeated. Is 2...
S&W: Google gone is Meta next?
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Scotch & Watch episode, Ricky and Chris talk about the implications of the Google ad tech antitrust decision by Judge Brinkema as well as ...
Meta Antitrust Trial Week 1 and things start to get spicy
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We got to the end of week one of FTC v Meta antitrust trial. Ricky and Alan are joined by Brendan Benedict who was sitting in the pews all week and h...
FTC v Meta: will this case change the trajectory of social forever?
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On April 14, Meta will enter a US antitrust court to face break-up. Ricky and Alan talk about the case - and the implications of having Zuck testify u...
S&W: Canada goes full beast mode in epic Google beatdown
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's an E a G and an O in Google. Might that be why the dumbass search engine decided to get personal with a lawmaker? Uh-oh...See Privacy Policy a...
When will ad revenue growth trickle down to publishers?
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky and Alan chat with media futurist Erez Levin on the challenges faced by the publishing industry. The ad market is addicted to vanity metrics, bu...
S&W: Google's Trillion Dollar BooBoo on News Value
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Scotch and Watch goes deep on Google's EU experiment with the value of news publishers. Ricky Sutton with Chris Duncan.See Privacy Policy at http...
Big Tech's beloved Get Out of Jail Free card might be over
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago, lawmakers passed Section 230. It was intended to provide legal cover for innovative start-ups to create the world wide web. Since th...
S&W: How music embraced YouTube... then banked billions
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The inside story of how the music labels won on piracy and streaming by partnering, not fighting, and went on to make a fortune... Ricky Sutton enjoys...
Publishing launches a $20 billion class actions against Google
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An uneasy 20-year truce between publishing and Google is coming to an bitter end. Lawyers Miranda Nagy and Adil Abdulla are bringing class actions se...
Has AI achieved Steve Jobs' vision for a chat with Aristotle?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1985, the Apple scion predicted AI would be achieved when he could ask the philosopher a question and get an answer. So, I tried...See Privacy Poli...
Will Google be forced to let go of its Chrome browser?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two thirds of the world's four billion web users rely on Chrome to browse the open web. It's the most important tool no-one thinks about, but it might...
Who owns content in the emerging AI future?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big Tech reckons anything is fair game in the rush to create the AI future, but content owners argue that's just a convenient cover for old fashioned ...
Did Google just plain lie to the world about its AI search?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell chat with Lawrence O'Toole about Google's AI search plans. Google promised its new AI Overviews replacement for search w...
Sucker punch as US forces Canada to drop Meta ad ban
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky Sutton chats with Chris Duncan. The Canadian government banned ads on Meta after the social network pulled news content during deadly bushfires....
The ad failures that let the US Government fund child abuse
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ricky and Alan are joined by ad watchdog Arielle Garcia to expose the systemic failures that put global brand;s ads on a website publishing horrific s...