Stories that mattered this week: Google cookie fallout, TikTok fights back, Spotify, Paramount

Reporters Jack Benjamin and Ella Sagar are back with a look at the stories that mattered most in media and advertising this week.

1:30: Google delays the phasing out of third-party cookies again. Why and should we still care?

3:00: Alphabet earnings and a focus on YouTube

4:30: TikTok faces US ban in nine months – how will it respond?

7:07: Spotify's pivot to video

10:10: Snap's small-business success

13:00: Factors now driving Amazon ad growth

16:50: Bob Bakish exits Paramount amid merger talks

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