Technology, content and the evolution of media in the age of everything AI

A carefully curated, up-to-date selection

Is generative AI flooding our podcasts, newsfeeds, and inboxes with a new wave of shallow, low-quality content? Absolutely. And much of today’s content marketing isn’t helping.

But this same technology also holds enormous potential: to create content that’s smarter, more inclusive, better researched, beautifully designed, and more relevant than ever. Content that crosses borders, adapts to audiences — and yes, feels more human.

“Time and time again, the case for optimism is one of the best bets one can make. The magic of watching AI do your work for you feels like the early days of email and web search – technologies that fundamentally changed our world.”

Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI), May 30, 2025 by Mary Meeker et alii at BOND

Mapping the Landscape

NOV 25 QuantumBlack by McKinsey / State of AI 2025
NOV 25 Activate Consulting / Technology & Media Outlook
NOV 25 Wharton / AI Adoption Report 2025
AUG 25 A16Z.com / Top 100 AI Consumer Apps
JUL 25 How Content Structure Matters for AI Search
JUN 25 State of Foundation Models / Innovation Endeavors / June 2025
MAY 25 Mary Meeker / Bond / Trends in Artificial Intelligence / 2025
MAY 25 AI Eats the World / Ben Evans / 2025
JUN 25 LIS: Navigating AI Mode for Publishers
MAY 25 A16Z: How GEO Rewrites the Rules of Search
MAY 25 Query Fan-Out: A Data-Driven Approach to AI Search Visibility
MAY 25 12 New KPIs for the GenAI Era
FEB 25 From PageRank to DeepRank
FEB 25 The End of Search, The Beginning of Research

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Deep thinking

OpenAI & Anthropic
SEP 25 How People Use ChatGPT
SEP 25 Anthropic Economic Index report
The Atlantic
NOV 25 The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
AUG 25 Artificial intelligence is ready to collaborate. Why fixate on automation?
The New Yorker
JUN 25 What’s Happening to Reading?
Glide
JUN 25 Big Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus
JUN 25Never mind the big whales of AI, the little fish are stealing your work too
MAY 25 AI Is Not Your Friend
FEB 25 AI hype versus the unfortunate interruption of reality

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AI and the publishing industry

NOV 25 Bookwire: Barbara Knabe (Audible) on immersive audiobook productions
MAY 25 Bookwire: Why can’t e-books look as good as printed books?
MAY 25 Bookwire: The Impact of AI on the book publishing industry
FEB 25 Library Trends: Generative AI and Open Access Publishing
FEB 25 FT Strategies: How AI is changing the book publishing industry

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AI and Journalism

Unlocking Media Resilience

Playbooks

  • The Ringier Media Playbook, a collection of best practice guides, serves as a regularly updated handbook to clarify our digital publishing expectations and align priorities across the organization.
  • Elements of Audience Engagement, exploring how journalism and publishing organisations can benefit from focusing on audience needs across the entire media landscape

Reports

Use cases & Guides

Monitor

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Customer understanding & user needs

JUN 25 A16Z

Faster, Smarter, Cheaper: AI Is Reinventing Market Research

JUN 25 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE MEDIA

Your deepest, darkest user needs and the emotional economics of modern journalism

User Needs Model

Developing Value Propositions for News Media Consumers

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The Future of Coding: just vibes?

AUG 25 Batteries Included, Opinions Required: The Specialization of App Gen Platforms
MAR 25 One Useful Thing: Speaking things into existence
FEB 25 From Prompt to Product: The Rise of AI-Powered Web App Builders

AI & Advertising

SEP 25 IAB AI in Advertising Use Case Map

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Podcasting & Youtube

Germany 2025
USA & GLOBAL 2025

Guides & Learning

Anthropic
Google
OpenAI: Cookbook

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Agentic AI

Thanks to the rise in low-cost satellite-driven Internet connectivity / access, the potential for the 2.6B (or 32% of the world’s population) that is not online to come online is increasing. These new users will start from scratch with AI functionality. Wow!

When these new users come online, they likely won’t be met by browsers and search bars. They’ll start with AI – and in their native language. Imagine a ‘first experience’ of the internet that doesn’t involve typing a query into a search engine but instead talking to a machine that talks back. Imagine skipping the traditional application layer entirely, with an agent-driven interface managing disparate tech platforms from one place while understanding users’ local language, context, and intent.

An agent-first internet experience could upend existing tech hierarchies, disintermediating dominant platforms and redistributing value. In this model, the winners wouldn’t be those who own the app, but those who own the interface.

Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI), 2025
by Mary Meeker et alii at BOND

JUN 25 “Future of Work with AI Agents”,
MAY 25, BCG: AI Agents: A primer. By BCG
JAN 25, BCG: How AI Agents Are Opening the Golden Era of Customer Experience

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Newsletters

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My AI-powered Tech Stack

Research and Knowledge Management
Text-to-Speech
Speech-to-Text & Dubbing
AI Audio Enhancement
Video & Audio Editing
Experiments & development
Reports & presentations
Document Design
Design to Dev Workflows
AI-Powered Music & Sound Design

Not using it so much, I rely on available sound and music libraries.

Data visualisations & visual analytics
Podcasting
Translation & Fine Tuning
Web & Media Extraction

Gemini for advanced video parsing (2.5 flash)

Multimodal AI

In my case, mostly still images to use as thumbnails:

Content Management
Digital Asset Management

Also as DAM:

Analytics and intelligence

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