Most media you consume -- everything from news to internet to TV -- is owned by these six companies: Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, Viacom and Sony.

That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983. NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore.

In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. … [I]n 1987, the fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. … ...

As a result, the media companies dependent on advertising to pay for their journalism continue to struggle. They just can’t compete with the media platforms that own a vast amount of consumer data.

This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” with OpenAI worth tens of millions of Euros.According ...

AudiencePlus, a new media platform from a long-time marketing executive, wants to put the media capabilities of these larger companies within reach of much smaller companies. Today the company ...