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Does Any of This Actually Matter?
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Subscription Business Remains an Uphill Climb
Every year, the Reuters Institute releases its Digital News Report, which is chock full of fascinating insights. This year is no different.…
Ignore The Competition and Focus On Yourself
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Facebook Rug Pulls Media Companies… Again.
If there is one thing publishers can always depend on, it’s Facebook pulling the rug out from under them. And yet, even…
Is The Media Business Just One Big Arbitrage?
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The Easy Liquidity is Gone
There’s something special about a lock-up period. After a company goes public, most shareholders are “locked” from selling their shares. This ensures…
The One-Two Punch of 1st-Party Data
For years, knowing your audience wasn’t a priority. Instead, publishers outsourced that responsibility to adtech vendors. Since most monetization was done with 3rd-party cookies anyway, the publisher didn’t really care. Or, if they cared, they didn’t have the will to overcome the competitive disadvantage they found themselves in.
The Atlantic Attempts to Expand ROI of Its Reporting With Books
Many excellent books have been published over the past few years about some of the most prominent tech startups. Super Pumped by…
Tim Hartman on GovExec’s Rapidly Growing Business
Earlier this month, Tim Hartman, CEO of GovExec, and I took the stage at Omeda’s Idea Exchange to do a live recording…
The Argument for a Freemium Model
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Future Extends Linear Commerce Play With Who What Wear Acquisition
The thought of a recession might have some operators worried, but for Future Plc., its quest to continue expanding through media acquisitions…
Chris Ferrell on The Incredible Growth at Endeavor Business Media
Chris Ferrell is the founder and CEO of Endeavor Business Media, a b2b media company growing unbelievably quickly. His original goal? Hit…
Incentivizing Balanced Growth
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Don’t Throw Baby Out With the Advertising Bathwater
There are two media markets, and their opinions are fundamentally different. On the one hand, you have those who spend too much…
The Pivot to Advertising Has Begun
Subscriptions are unbelievable. You have recurring revenue that, ideally, compounds month after month. Nothing else matters because you have growing subscriptions. And…
Quartz and Being in the Middle of the Media Barbell
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CNN+ Was Doomed From the Start and Closure is the Right Move
I’m so excited to jump in and offer my totally useless take on Elon Musk buying Twitter because it seems like that’s…
Alexis Grant on Launching They Got Acquired
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