Here’s a broad, cross-regional list of billionaires with large media influence (platforms, TV/film studios, newspapers, or major stakes in news/entertainment).
| Billionaire | Country | Major media / platform assets (examples) |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Zuckerberg | US | Meta — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp (~$225 B, Newsweek 2025) |
| Elon Musk | US | X (formerly Twitter), xAI (~$480 B, Guardian 2025) |
| Jeff Bezos | US | Washington Post owner; Amazon Video / Prime (~$230 B, WageIndicator 2025) |
| Larry Page & Sergey Brin | US | Alphabet (Google / YouTube) — global digital media distribution (~$150 B each, Forbes 2025) |
| Michael Bloomberg | US | Bloomberg L.P. — business news and data media (~$94 B, Alux 2025) |
| Larry Ellison | US | Oracle co-founder; Paramount / Warner media bid interest (~$393 B, Visual Capitalist + BI 2025) |
| Rupert Murdoch & family | US / UK / AUS | News Corp & Fox Corp — WSJ, The Times, Fox News (~$19 B, Forbes 2025) |
| David Thomson & family | Canada | Thomson Reuters — global news & data (~$60 B, CEOWorld 2024) |
| Donald Newhouse | US | Advance Publications — Condé Nast, Charter stake (~$11 B, CEOWorld 2024) |
| John Malone | US | Liberty Media — F1, SiriusXM, Discovery (~$9 B, CEOWorld 2024) |
| Reed Hastings | US | Netflix co-founder (~$4.5 B, Forbes 2025) |
| David Geffen | US | DreamWorks co-founder; music & film mogul (~$10 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Steven Spielberg | US | Amblin / DreamWorks — film & TV production (~$8 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Oprah Winfrey | US | OWN network, Harpo Productions (~$3 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Tyler Perry | US | Tyler Perry Studios; BET / Paramount partner (~$1.4 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Evan Spiegel | US / France | Snap (Snapchat / Discover) — youth media platform (~$2.6 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Laurene Powell Jobs | US | Emerson Collective — majority owner of The Atlantic (~$19.5 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Marc Benioff | US | Co-owner of TIME magazine (~$9 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Pierre Omidyar | US | First Look Media (The Intercept), Honolulu Civil Beat (~$10.5 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Pavel Durov | UAE / Russia | Telegram — global broadcast messaging (~$17 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Daniel Ek | Sweden | Spotify — global music & podcast platform (~$9 B, Bloomberg 2025) |
| Robin Li | China | Baidu — search, AI news aggregation, video (~$5.5 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Zhang Yiming | China | ByteDance — TikTok, Douyin, Toutiao (~$46 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Pony Ma (Ma Huateng) | China | Tencent — WeChat, QQ, Tencent Video/News (~$33 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Jack Ma | China | Alibaba — owner of South China Morning Post (~$30 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Mukesh Ambani | India | Network18 / Viacom18, JioCinema (streaming) (~$116 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Gautam Adani | India | NDTV ownership and Adani Group media assets (~$87 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Carlos Slim | Mexico | América Móvil; former NYT stakeholder (~$104 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Emilio Azcárraga Jean | Mexico | Televisa Univision — Spanish-language TV (~$2.3 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Vincent Bolloré & family | France | Vivendi / Canal+ Group (~$11 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Bernard Arnault | France | LVMH — Les Echos, Le Parisien (~$197 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Xavier Niel | France | Co-owner of Le Monde and regional press (~$8 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Friede Springer | Germany | Axel Springer — Bild, Welt, Politico, Insider (~$5 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Hubert Burda | Germany | Burda Media — Focus, Bunte, digital brands (~$3 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Koos Bekker | South Africa | Naspers / Prosus — global media & tech investments (~$3 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Prince Alwaleed bin Talal | Saudi Arabia | Rotana Media Group; stakes in Disney & Twitter (~$18 B, Forbes 2025) |
| Shari Redstone | US | National Amusements — Paramount Global (exited board 2025) (~$0.5 B, SCMP + Reuters 2025) |
| David Ellison | US | Skydance Media — Paramount Skydance merger 2025 (~$0.5 B, RealityTea + Wikipedia 2025) |