Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
He was an affable curmudgeon, a refreshing truth-teller who inadvertently imbued a sense of both irony and hope in every sentence.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
Building Habit—Not Page Views—Matters Most For Keeping Subscribers, Data Analysis Finds
Mark Jacob • Medill Study Identifies ‘Paradigm Shift’ in How Local News Serves Readers
Professional media will turn to recommendation media
Michael Mignano • The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media
B2B media has long been looked down upon by the consumer side as a lesser form. That was somewhat deserved, since most trade publications were synonymous with being industry cheerleaders, shoddily reported and very boring. One of the bets we had at Digiday was to have a consumer media approach to reporting, design and product while not forgoing the... See more
Brian Morrissey • Building a membership funnel
Crystallizing Public Opinion
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Last week, I had a coffee with a publishing exec who told me he doesn’t mind the ads I run because they fit and they’re (often) written similarly to the content. The more human the ad, the better it performs. To me, that’s a form of personalization, even if there’s no proprietary “decisioning engine” crunching first-party data.