Mark Sweney

Media Business Correspondent at The Guardian

Media business correspondent at the Guardian. New Zealander. Yes, my surname is spelt like that. DM’s open

Articles

Sky, ITV and Channel 4 join forces in fightback against big tech’s ad market dominance

1 week ago | msn.com | Mark Sweney

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Sky, ITV and Channel 4 join forces in fightback against big tech’s ad market dominance

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Mark Sweney

Sky, ITV and Channel 4 are to fight back against the social media companies Facebook and YouTube by pooling their streaming advertising services to make it easier and more affordable for millions of small businesses to run ad campaigns. The project is an attempt to break big tech’s stranglehold over the UK’s £45bn ad market. Google and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have increasingly dominated the UK ad market and now hoover up two-thirds of the £45bn spent by brands annually.
UK broadcasters hail rare win over Netflix in battle for streaming ads

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Mark Sweney

Shows such as Netflix’s TV history-making Adolescence and Disney’s romp Rivals are among the latest hits to continue the subscriber juggernaut, as the US streamers continue to mount pressure on UK TV broadcasters.
Oil and gold prices soar and stock markets fall after Israel’s attacks on Iran

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Mark Sweney |Joanna Partridge

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Oil and gold prices soar and stock markets fall after Israel’s attacks on Iran

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Mark Sweney |Joanna Partridge

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Oil and gold prices soar and stock markets fall after Israel’s attacks on Iran

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Mark Sweney |Joanna Partridge

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Oil and gold prices soar and stock markets fall after Israel’s attacks on Iran

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Mark Sweney |Joanna Partridge

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Tui says ‘overtourism’ is fault of short-term let companies not hotel industry

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Mark Sweney

Europe’s biggest travel operator, Tui, has hit back at an accusation by Airbnb that “overtourism” is the fault of the hotel industry, arguing that short-term home rentals companies are instead to blame. Tensions have risen between rivals in the tourism industry after protests by local people against overcrowding, rising housing costs and bad behaviour by tourists in some holiday hotspots across the continent.
Oil and gold prices soar after Israel’s attacks on Iran

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Mark Sweney

The price of oil and gold has soared and stock markets have fallen after Israel’s strikes against targets in Iran. The escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, the focal point of global oil production, prompted a sharp increase in prices, with Brent crude up more than 10% after news of the attacks broke, reaching its highest level since January. The price later eased but was still up 5.5% at $73.12 a barrel, on course to record the biggest daily rise since 2022.
Newly formed VodafoneThree vows to create thousands of jobs

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Mark Sweney

VodafoneThree, the newly formed leader in the UK’s mobile market, is aiming to more than double its broadband business by 2034, as it pledged to create thousands of jobs and upgrade its network. Vodafone has become the fastest growing provider of home broadband since , and now plans to grow its customer base from 2 million to more than 4 million over the next eight years after the merger.