Tag: Channels with Peter Kafka

• Channels with Peter Kafka: What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable

  November 12, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/NZYOSPo It’s not unusual for a big TV network and a big TV distributor to fight about money. But the Disney-YouTube fight is unusual — at the bare minimum,… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next

  October 22, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/LithNB0 We spend a lot of time on this show talking to people who run media companies. We also spend a lot of time talking to media reporters. So… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Why the Guardian Doesn’t Need a Billionaire to Thrive

  October 8, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/M5rhyeF In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publisher: A tricky ad environment, platform problems, looming AI threats.One big difference:… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.

  August 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/DVQFjJ0 I admit it: I most definitely rolled my eyes in 2019, when Twitter announced vague plans to build an "open and decentralized standard for social media". At the time I… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech – and people

  July 2, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/exWKAJc "Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker knows that everyone thinks his show is about tech-fueled dystopias. But he says it's really about humans,  not their tools. I loved this… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond

  May 28, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/WyP2uzc Today we’re talking about how you take a media property that’s been around for a long time, and find a way to bring in new eyeballs — and… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Meta’s Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works – and how he wants to build Threads

  May 22, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/R87EmD2 Adam Mosseri's official title is head of Instagram, Meta's massive photo and video app. He also runs Threads, the Twitter clone the company launched two years ago. Unofficially,… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

  February 19, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/vOQyDxq Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional media. Except that's not true: The games business is now in a prolonged and… more ›

• Channels with Peter Kafka: Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

  February 6, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/n2cEVXP It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of United States. And sports leagues and the media companies… more ›