Media money, platform power, AI pressure.
Radio Fix is a fast-moving briefing on digital media, advertising, AI, and platform economics. It suits listeners who want industry signals, deal logic, and pointed judgment in a compressed briefing format.
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Radio Fix is a tightly packed briefing on the business of media as mobile, AI, advertising, and commerce keep redrawing the map. It is not casual listening. The show moves like an annotated inbox for people who follow agency groups, platform strategy, retail media, streaming economics, and the next commercial use case for AI. Each episode stitches together reports, earnings signals, executive comments, court cases, and deal logic into a sharper view of what matters. Advertising sits near the center. One week, the show is asking why record ad growth can still feel creatively thin; another, it is following how Publicis, WPP, S4, and media agencies are adapting to AI tools and new pricing pressure. AI is treated as a practical force. The show looks at agents replacing campaign setup work, software development changing under automation, and commerce experiments moving from hype toward the platforms that already own catalogs, data, fulfillment, and trust. Commerce gets the same unsentimental treatment. Amazon’s grocery moves, retail media platforms, AI shopping startups, and agentic commerce are weighed for who captures value, not just who sounds futuristic. Entertainment strategy also runs through the feed. Micro-dramas, TikTok’s studio ambitions, Netflix inventory through Amazon DSP, Paramount and Warner deal logic, sports rights, and HBO’s future all become evidence of a market chasing new forms of attention. The show can be blunt. It links social media court cases, product safety worries, smartphone bans for children, harassment concerns around glasses, and Meta’s legal exposure to a broader question about platform responsibility. Numbers are used often, but not as decoration. Revenue estimates, subscription data, ad-spend forecasts, agency billings, compensation risk, and audience scale are there to support a commercial argument. Radio Fix is best for media and marketing professionals who want the week’s strategic pressure points in one compressed pass. It rewards context. It assumes the listener can keep up.
Made for: Radio Fix is for media, advertising, marketing, commerce, and technology professionals who track platform strategy and business-model change. It best suits listeners comfortable with a dense, reference-heavy briefing style.
What sets it apart: The show connects trade-news fragments into commercial logic, moving from agency economics to AI automation, streaming deals, retail media, and social platform risk. It is sharper and more numbers-led than a general tech-news roundup.
Fix is the Media Intelligence service that educates and informs the business world on what is happening with mobile and digital - our weekly email newsletter, an imminent series of unmissable events and now Radio Fix Radio Fix - our News and views on what’s happening as mobile and digital reinvent the media business, plus interviews with the movers and shapers of the industry Why; Mobile has changed how people across the globe live their lives. And one profound effect is that Media & Advertising is a $trillion business in motion. Affecting the content creation business (from Hollywood movie studios, Dundee games developers, Soho Ad agencies and news brands) and the businesses that rely on ad…
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Fix Insider covers the 2024 Luma State of Digital Report's critique of ad tech as 'Peter Pan'.
A discussion of a new report declaring a golden age of advertising, with record growth forecasts, but questioning the quality of current ads and the sustainability of platform revenue amid regulatory pressures.
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Forrester's latest WAVE report ranks Amazon, Google, and Yahoo as leaders in omni-channel advertising, with Amazon leading in strategy and Google in offering, while highlighting new tools like YouTube 5K for creative optimization.
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Radio Fix surveys Sora 2, retail media, agentic commerce, advertising, and entertainment developments during the week of October 3.
Amazon’s AI assistant can create product videos, scripts, images, voiceovers, and model edits with “a push of a button or five.”
Radio Fix's September 12 insider briefing examines Amazon's Netflix DSP partnership and the wider consolidation of digital advertising.