BOTW: Time up, betting ads; What is Scire?; When to tell and when to sell

Welcome to Best of the Week, written on Friday afternoon and a golden Saturday morning at beautiful Sisters Beach, Tasmania.

Today’s writing track: The Smiths – The Queen is Dead. Happy Make Up Your Own Holiday for tomorrow.

Today: The tide turns for gambling ads and the mood music gets louder for TikTok. The next big publishing play exits stealth mode. And News Corp, Ooh Media and Snapchat spruik their wares.

Apologies that the email is a bit later than usual. There’s no more interesting explanation than it taking a little longer to finish than expected.