Author: Lionel Laurent

The hold of social media on advertisers is weakening while old-school players in the ad industry are reporting a more upbeat experience.

There aren’t many silver linings to be found in the cryptocurrency crash. One welcome casualty is the army of laser-eyed social media “influencers”.

Strip away the hype, and it looks like turtles all the way down. Crypto is not too big to fail.

It’s time for regulators to reflect on the real-world impact of the next boom-and-bust crypto cycle.

Crypto has traditionally been user-agnostic. But there’s a bigger dose of reality here for its utopian narrative of “borderless” and “stateless” money as bombs rain down on Europe’s doorstep.

Spotify is big, and the network effects of its music catalogue – now augmented by podcasts – are incredibly powerful.

The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of China’s “FUD” (Internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt). By Lionel Laurent.

The lesson haunting regulators is that falling asleep at the wheel before the next crypto-market slump could leave far bigger scars than in 2017. By Lionel Laurent.