Penske Media Corporation

The Head of Studio and Creative Content is Mary Polony.

For Penske Media, Jerry Ruiz is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations.

Special thanks to Marshall Poe of the New Books Network.

Who's that winning all those Oscars? I can't tell who it is.

Michael Bublé? Penske Media? That's what it says under the photo.

I don't know.

He's a no, I don't know who it is kind of thing.

um that's one where how do we quantify all these streaming services when everybody's watching uh through the internet and so it's really not the same as saying you only have four channels broadcast channels and those can't merge because we need all of those to exist on their own they can't collude together to tell the same story the way like a thr and a deadline and a variety are all owned by the same it's like all

penske media right

Exactly.

Penske Media owns all of those.

So I do think there's a fair point there to say Netflix can't control the entire industry because they are the biggest player outside of YouTube as far as dominating the industry.

I don't know.

The head of studio and creative content is Mary Poloni.

For Penske Media, Jerry Ruiz is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations.

And this was one of the more consequential lawsuits I believe we covered when it happened.

Penske Media Corporation is parent of Rolling Stone, so fairly prominent.

publication.

This is in a long line of various lawsuits having to do with how content is being used.

And when you're measuring by clicks, when you're selling ads by clicks, that's super problematic.

So problematic that last year, Penske Media, and Penske Media owns names you know, Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, huge in the music industry.

Penske Media sued Google.

They said its revenue from search traffic had fallen by more than a third, and it argued that Google uses its monopoly to force a choice.

Basically saying, let us feed your journalism into the AI summary, or you're going to disappear from the search.

Yeah.

A Washington, D.C. federal judge ruled last week that he was sympathetic to both Penske Media Group and and check that they had entered into kind of an informal relationship with Google whereby they would tag and otherwise index, make their content index friendly for Google to present to users during search.

We used to, you search for a term and all these.

Traditional

The head of studio and creative content is Mary Paloni.

For Penske Media, Jerry Ruiz is senior vice president strategy and operations.

I changed Trish's name to protect her dating anonymity.

Special thanks to David Dunbar, Francesco Izolani, Allison Brauer, JD Samuels-Cuba, Andy Erdmann, Abby Ellen, Lara B.

Also under Lupa will be New York Magazine.

And very soon after selling off that portion of Vox Media, Bankoff sold the rest, including The Verge, SB Nation, and Eater, to Penske Media.

That price wasn't disclosed, and it's worth noting that Jay Penske's company had already invested in Vox a hundred million dollars back in twenty twenty-three.

We've been working closely with them as a partner for many years, and they got to know the business very well.