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The Three Choices for Growing a Newsletter Business
The proliferation of newsletters has been incredible over the past few years. Thanks to the arrival of tools like Substack and Beehiiv,…
Has Substack’s Net Revenue Nearly Flat Lined?
The past week has been particularly news-heavy for Substack between it attempting to raise $5m+ from its unsuspecting writers to getting banned…
Media Companies Should Get Comfortable With Unique Monetization
Most discourse about media company monetization ultimately devolves into a debate about subscriptions vs. advertising. Most of us know by now that…
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Multiple Deals Show Opportunity in Niche Media
While much ink is spilled on whether or not Vice will go bankrupt or if BuzzFeed can introduce another AI gimmick to…
Creating Data Co-Ops To Generate SaaS-Like Revenue
Research and data as a business model have been areas that I’ve been spending time thinking a lot about. While harder to…
Sam Parr on Launching and Growing Hampton
Jacob Cohen Donnelly: All right. Let’s jump right in and talk about your new project Hampton. What is it and where did…
Publishers Will Fight For Compensation From AI, But It Won’t Matter
The Wall Street Journal said it best with its headline about publishers preparing for a showdown with various platforms over their AI…
Does More Content Necessarily Mean More Traffic?
The debate over more content did not start with the internet. For decades, there has been pressure to create more content in…
BuzzFeed Is Not About to Go Out of Business
BuzzFeed reported its Q4 and full year 2022 earnings last week. This is its first full year since it acquired Complex and…
A Good Community is a Function of Good Curation
During the pandemic, the word community became the buzz word de jour. Left and right, people were talking about their communities as…
Group Black Will Make a Deal One Way or Another
It’s not a great time to be acquired if you’re an embattled media company, but it does seem that Vice’s days as…
Is WaPo’s Headspace Partnership a Good Strategy?
If the news has you stressed out, why not take a deep breath and meditate? That’s the subtle pitch The Washington Post…
Substack Can Grow Into Its Valuation
When Substack failed to raise money at a $1 billion valuation, there was some schadenfreude. I heard from many people who questioned…
When Introducing A Little Friction is a Good Thing
It’s common advice for operators to remove friction from their experience. It’s so common, I’ve written multiple pieces about it. For example,…
Sports as a Content Business Is Evolving
Despite being a couple of weeks removed from the Super Bowl, one interesting statistic has stuck with me. More people tune in…
Is Media Best as a Family Business?
We live in an era where people’s attention spans is shorter than ever. We see this across all areas of our lives,…
Does AI Put Evergreen Content at Risk?
With any new technological advancement, an individual can find themselves on one side of the impending conflict. You are either clinging to…
Events Will Undergo Same Barbell Evolution as Media
If we look back on the past century of media, we have seen a dramatic evolution of what has worked. And with…