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¡AU! Journal – Autumn 2025
Issue Two of ¡AU! Journal looks at the crisis of content theft and destruction – from pirates, hackers and ravenous AI.
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¡AU! Journal – Summer 2025
Issue One of ¡AU! Journal is here! This first of our quarterly magazines dives into the struggle for diversity in the media industry.
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Would Jack Warner be angry about a WBD sale to Paramount – or envious?
The sale of Warner Bros. Discover looks imminent. Would the studios founder approve of the tech oligarchy taking over Hollywood?
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First Monster Lab event looks at the history of boundary-breaking and the wisdom of befriending fiends
¡AU!’s first Monster Lab, featuring historian Surekha Davies and sculptor Esti Reich, looked at AU!’s first Monster Lab looked at the history of category-breaking and the power of putting fascination over fear
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IP predators: The endless tech arms race against packs of pirates
Content piracy is happening worldwide on an industrial scale. Protecting copyright is a technology face-off that never ends.
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News networks vacate Pentagon after press credentials deadline passes
New policies requiring Defense Department approval of stories result in a broadcaster backlash
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This year’s Be You Festival convened diverse creatives to plot a new future for UK media
Guests included producer Ash Atalla who revealed what he really thinks about the industry’s not-fit-for-purpose commissioning system.
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On the trail of the ghost influencers, the fake “experts” who get big headlines
Journalist Rob Waugh cracked open a whole world of widely quoted, but nonexistent, experts. How do real human experts get heard in an ecosystem that reward fast fakes?
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Sweden could go after viewers of illegal IPTV streams
Special investigator recommendations include fining viewers of illegal streams and faster shut down of illegal broadcasts
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LaLiga launches season with anti-piracy awareness
The Spanish league kicks off with a spot showing how pirated content endangers viewers as well as the sports biz
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There’s no thriving creative sector without solid security
Visiting London’s International Security Expo asks the question of what media industry security really is
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Outer Limits pirate service gets hit with $15m judgment
The illegal content service provided subscribers with 13,000 film titles and 3000 TV series
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Danish Parliament to vote on law for deepfake defense
This month, Denmark will vote on a law that would give citizens control over how their likenesses are used
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Coordinate your defenses or lose your content
A multi-layered approach of intelligence-gathering and monitoring helps Friend MTS keep customers’ content in the right hands
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This year’s IBC showed an industry preparing for the end – and the beginning?
This year’s International Broadcasters Convention showed an industry needing to change but paralyzed by fear
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Sports streaming pirate “Shishi” arrested in Argentina
Last month Argentine police arrested the founder and owner of illegal sports streaming platform Al Ángulo TV
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SMPTE study group will delve into content authenticity solutions
The industry trade body’s Content Provenance and Authenticity (CPA) in Media Study Group will catalog content provenance and authenticity tech
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Photo metadata could start to include AI info
An industry working group meets in October to see if AI-related fields should be added to photo metadata
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Sony ups its content authentication offerings
Sony has released has released a new camcorder which can embed content provenance data
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Video: Content by nobody for nobody – how to survive the Gen AI bubble
Watch our discussion with Gen AI expert Graham Lovelace on the impacts of AI on the media biz – from ¡AU!s Content & IP Defense Summit
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¡AU! Yes, you!
¡AU! is a new publishing and creative services company. We help creative businesses thrive in an increasingly fragmented, unstable world.
We take as given that we are in a period of rapid transformation – environmentally, socially and technologically.
But we believe that change is opportunity. In the midst of crisis, the power of creativity can imagine new and better futures.
¡AU! is here to help you rethink your creative future. If you want just more of the same, then ¡AU! may not be for you. But if you need a fresh start, a reboot, a new approach, let’s talk.
How can we help?
We listen – ¡AU! wants to hear your story. All of it. We realize the best solutions are often already with you, buried under old habits and what you “should” be doing. We’ll help you uncover them.
We dare – ¡AU! pushes the envelope of what is possible, and wants to help you do the same. We invite you to go one step further to become that leader, that catalyst, that authentic voice that the world needs.
We manifest – ¡AU! transforms your vision into something that creates real change in the real world. We realize your internal goals are important, but your impact on the world is what you’re here for.
Who are we?
¡AU! was launched by writer and publisher Neal Romanek, when he saw that traditional content production wasn’t fit for purpose, especially given the changes ahead in environment and geo-politics.
Neal has spent his entire adult life in the creative industries. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, he worked as an animation editor, then a screenwriter for major Hollywood producers.
A dual US/UK national Neal moved to London and edited some of the media industries top publications, helping to launch two of them, FEED and The Flint. He has also hosted and produced more industry professional events than he can count.
He is convinced there’s a better for the media industry to operate that will allow great creators to create better content and get them to audiences who are desperate for something meaningful and useful and in a world full of half-truths and noise.
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