media
the only way to maintain a competitive advantage in the media and entertainment business is to continue knowing more about your audience than the competition does.
Tom Webster • The Audience Is Listening: A Little Guide to Building a Big Podcast
“Common types of junk info include gossip, trivia, clickbait, hackery, marketing, churnalism, and babble. But in fact, any information that you can't use is junk info”
Why Do People Like Horror Films? A Statistical Analysis
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If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
The creator economy is in its early days, really. The mass adoption of television occurred in the 1950s, and the creator economy started in earnest around 2010, so we’re just about 15 years into it. It’s concerning that these media executives think they are superior to it and have a better way of operating, when they obviously do not. They should... See more
Amy Odell • Media Industry to Repeat History
If you’ve never heard of MrBeast , he has somehow become one of the most famous people in the world without really affecting any part of it outside of YouTube