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MediaJuly 8, 2025

The Fold: The biggest media stories no one is talking about

Staff writers
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Glen Kyne joins Duncan Greive to discuss some under-covered stories which suggest major changes coming to streaming entertainment and news publishing.

This week on The Fold, Duncan Greive and Glen Kyne discuss Netflix’s massive deal with France’s biggest broadcaster to host its live channels and a vast library of content, along with a group of UK TV companies banding together to sell ads across their networks. Then there is the continual encroachment of AI into platforms, including the sharp rise on both Spotify and YouTube – along with the chance of a fightback, in Cloudflare’s desire to create a “pay-per-crawl” model.

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