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Jason Yanowitz on the Many Stages of Blockworks
Jacob: Let’s start at the genesis of it all. How did you find your way to launching a media company about crypto…
The Platforms Eye Newsletters
When many of us solo writers think about the audience funnel for what we’re building, it often starts with Twitter. If we…
Media Gets Its Focus
I was interviewing a candidate for a job last week and he asked me an interesting question that stuck with me. “Do…
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Scott Brodbeck on Building Hyperlocal Media Brands in the D.C. Area
Jacob Cohen Donnelly: I always like to hear the origin stories of how people got into media because I don’t think most…
Google’s Cookie Replacement Means Nothing Has Changed
When I talk to some publishers that are overly reliant on programmatic advertising for their business, I sometimes imagine a major countdown…
Breaking Down Forbes’ Newsletter Strategy
The first time I made money on the internet, I was 16 or 17 years old. I should have been writing essays…
Bad Ads, Not Trump, Is What Kept Brands Away From News
It’s hard for humans to look in the mirror and admit that they are the problem. It’s just a lot easier to…
Will Creator Burnout Lead to a Return to Media Companies?
When people ask me how I am able to handle a full-time job and writing my newsletter, I say two things. First,…
Publishers Recognizing the Need for Better Product and User Experience
Hey— The Slack community launches tomorrow, so if you’d like to be part of the community here at A Media Operator, upgrade…
Capture The First-Party Data That Will Actually Help
The media industry has been making a pivot to taking ownership over user information and striving to collect more first-party data. In…
Lessons to Learn From WW84 Launch
Christmas in 2020 was different than other years. Whereas in the past, we’d travel from house to house, this year, we were…
The End of the Year Brings Multiple Deals
There’s always this inherent stress that comes from the end of the year. The goals we set in January suddenly come back…
Looking at the Axios Charlotte Acquisition
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Nick Friese on the 12 Years of Digiday Media
Jacob Cohen Donnelly: In 2015, you wrote a blog post called A Founder Story, 7 Lessons on Building a Modern Media Business.…
Why I Decided to Leave Substack
It was almost a year ago that I wrote a piece about me getting ready to leave Substack. I was spending the…
What I’ve Learned Launching and Failing at Job Boards
Ever since I interviewed Aging Media’s John Yedinak on the podcast, I’ve been thinking a lot about job boards. When I released…
Sherrell Dorsey on Building The Plug
Jacob: I’ve been following you on Twitter now for a while, but this is the first chance that you and I are…
Welcome to the New A Media Operator
It’s Wednesday evening here in New York and the kind developer I’ve been working with on A Media Operator has finally finished…