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  • The long strange trip of MediaWorks

    The long strange trip of MediaWorks
    Feb 23 2026
    The Fold's first ever listener questions episode is coming – fill out this form to pose a question of hosts Duncan Greive and Glen Kyne. A different episode of The Fold this week, leaning on Glen Kyne's deep experience with MediaWorks to tell the story of this perennial underdog of the big media companies – one which has always had great, authentic brands and even greater debt loads. Now that it's finally debt-free, Kyne talks Greive through the great saga of its various eras, as it finds itself once again for sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 Min.
  • Social media’s “big tobacco moment”, and the growing big tech backlash

    Social media’s “big tobacco moment”, and the growing big tech backlash
    Feb 16 2026
    The Fold's first ever listener questions episode is coming – fill out this form to pose a question of hosts Duncan Greive and Glen Kyne. Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss three huge stories impacting the social media and platform world. First is a landmark trial which contends social platforms are faulty products which visit huge harms upon their users – both Snap and TikTok have settled out of court, while Meta and Google will go to trial in a case with potentially enormous implications for the platforms.Next, they discuss the under-16 ban movement, which is spreading rapidly around the world, including New Zealand. Finally they analyse the EU’s multi-faceted resistance to big tech, one which epitomises the downstream consequences of Trump’s hostility toward his traditional allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 Min.
  • The Warehouse's big, brave ad bet + Mediaworks' future and more

    The Warehouse's big, brave ad bet + Mediaworks' future and more
    Feb 9 2026
    The Fold's first ever listener question's episode is coming – fill out this form to pose a question of hosts Duncan Greive and Glen Kyne. This week, Glen joins Duncan to discuss a flood of major media stories, led by breaking news: The Warehouse Group's shock decision to pause all advertising. Then they discuss the future of Mediaworks after its split from QMS, the end of a dismal era for the Washington Post's CEO Will Lewis, a new CEO for Disney and a fork in the road for Nielsen in New Zealand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 Min.
  • Many musicians hate Spotify. Eddie Johnston has no time for all that

    Many musicians hate Spotify. Eddie Johnston has no time for all that
    Feb 2 2026
    Eddie Johnston is first and foremost a huge music fan – he grew up loving New Zealand artists like The Mint Chicks and the Phoenix Foundation, and understood music in the paradigm of CDs and scenes. For many artists, even young musicians, those were the archetypal good old days, before social and streaming broke the model. But Johnston, who performs under the name Lontalius, has a clear-eyed and unsentimental response to the changing times, and tries to find ways to love making music even in the big tech era. He joins Duncan Greive ahead of his Laneway slot to explain how he learned to stop worrying and love the platforms, deep flaws and all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 Min.
  • On Davos, the end of of the rules based order, and where this is all headed

    On Davos, the end of of the rules based order, and where this is all headed
    Jan 26 2026
    A quite different episode this week, because discussing media without reference to the wider world feels particularly pointless at the moment. Duncan Greive hosts his friend David Brain on The Fold, to discuss Davos, the gathering of political, business and media elites, all in the shadow of Trump. Brain is a longtime attendee of Davos, and breaks down what it’s like on the ground, its noble intentions, its wrong turns and how incompatible it feels with the new world order, before trying to figure out what New Zealand’s response should be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 Min.
  • Seven questions which will define 2026 in NZ media

    Seven questions which will define 2026 in NZ media
    Jan 19 2026
    Glen Kyne joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss the biggest questions facing New Zealand's media in 2026. How will the John Campbell signing impact RNZ? Can NZ Rugby arrest its slide into chaos or has Sky got a big problem with its biggest partner? Will TVNZ follow Netflix into podcasts or UGC? Is Jim Grenon done with NZME? Will the Warner Brothers acquisition go through, and how will that change Netflix – and impact New Zealand? Is our government going to keep watching forever, or will it act? Will TradeMe take all of Stuff, and where will that leave mastheads? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 Min.
  • Summer Reissue: Charlie Kirk and Tom Phillips show boundary collapse between the internet and real life

    Summer Reissue: Charlie Kirk and Tom Phillips show boundary collapse between the internet and real life
    Jan 12 2026
    The Fold is taking a break over summer. We’ll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here’s one of our favourites from 2025: Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss two violent deaths, one driven by the internet, the other digested by it. They discuss how each shows in different yet profound ways how treating the internet as a separate sphere of life is increasingly impossible – rendering the libertarianism of one incompatible with the laws and mores of the other. This episode was originally published on September 16 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 Min.
  • Summer Reissue: Sky CEO Sophie Moloney on the NZ rugby and Three deals and the depth of its moat

    Summer Reissue: Sky CEO Sophie Moloney on the NZ rugby and Three deals and the depth of its moat
    Jan 5 2026
    The Fold is taking a break over summer. We’ll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here’s one of our favourites from 2025: Sophie Moloney has been CEO of Sky NZ for five years. For much of that time she’s been dealing with downsides – a failed acquisition of MediaWorks, Spark Sports gifting their rights to TVNZ and prolonged satellite issues. But lately, things have been looking up. They successfully brought NZ Cricket rights back, scooped up Three’s assets for $1, and just last week lengthened their rugby deal under very buyer-friendly terms. She joins Duncan Greive on the Fold to dig into all those issues and more. This episode was originally published on August 29 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 Min.