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Strypey

"... since about 2018, core media ad spend as a proportion of GDP has been below 0.8%. So literally never - going back all the way to the 60s - has ad spending been a smaller proportion of economic activity ... when we hear all of these conversations about how the media should be funded into the future, ad spending doesn't appear to be as viable of a long term solution ..."

#BradOlsen, Chief Economist, #InfoMetrics, 2025

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

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RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
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Strypey

The NZ Advertising Standards Authority has released its annual report on advertising revenue. I'm hearing about it on RNZ MediaWatch, who referenced this column by Gavin Ellis;

knightlyviews.com/but-waitther

Once again, the stats show that the bulk of ad money spent in NZ is going to the DataFarms. The handful of giant, multinational platforms owned by Silicon Valley oligarchs. Once again, I recommend @pluralistic's piece on this;

pluralistic.net/2022/04/10/big

Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis · BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) - Knightly Views with Gavin EllisFirst there was Dracula, followed by Nosferatu. Buffy the Vampire Slayer despatched a few, but then we were shown What We Do in the Shadows. However, for the cold-hearted realities of vampirism, nothing beats that on-going series The Advertising Standards Authority’s Advertising Turnover Report. In a chillingly sangfroid fashion, its latest episode indicates that yet … Continue reading BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) →
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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Strypey

With the Free Speech Onion wading in to support the attempted far right takeover of NZME, it seems it might be at least partially a revenge action against the NZHerald decision not to accept political ads from Hobson's Pledge. Ads their editors considered to be misinformation;

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

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RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
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Strypey

Having already been exposed by Jack Tame on Q&A as a quote bot programmed with talking points, our Prime Minister was similarly exposed as mealy-mouthed in a normally friendly interview with Nat-aligned shock jock Mike Hosking;

"You've made a complete meal of this."

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

This is *not* a good sign for the government.

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#Paragon #mediawatch “Meta ha riferito di varie tecnologie tra cui un malware in grado di effettuare operazioni per raccogliere e accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo, alla posizione, alle foto e ai contenuti multimediali, ai contatti, al calendario, alle e-mail, agli sms, a Telegram, Skype, Viber, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, WhatsApp, e operazioni per attivare le funzionalità di microfono, fotocamera e screenshot”.

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