Stories that mattered this week: Google’s cookie reversal, Netflix, Teads/Outbrain
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Reporters Jack Benjamin and Ella Sagar look at the stories that mattered most in media and advertising this week.
The pair discuss Google’s reversal on cookie deprecation, plus coverage around the latest earnings from Alphabet, Spotify, Netflix and others, as well as an odd match in Teads and Outbrain.
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00:21: Google’s U-turn on cookie deprecation
6:46: Alphabet earnings
8:23: Netflix earnings
11:22: Spotify earnings
14:30: Warner Bros Discovery considers split
16:45: Teads and Outbrain’s potential merger
15:45: News round-up: Publicis Groupe’s stronger-than-expected Q2 earnings; Vivendi’s plans to list its businesses on separate stock exchanges; Ofcom fines TikTok; City AM agrees content-sharing deal with Reach; UK Q1 adspend according to AA/Warc
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