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Twilight of the Media Elites
Pullrequest.substack.com 131d 16 tweets
Into the morbid interregnum
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JD how you make money directly affects how & what you create. the business model is the boss. 131d
WSJ News Exclusive | Digital News Startup Axios Weathers Covid With Sponsored Newsletters
Lukas I. Alpert - WSJ 147d 12 tweets
The company is on target to make a profit this year with its sponsored newsletters despite the economic turmoil stemming from the coronavirus that led to broad layoffs and pay cuts at many media outlets.
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JD by the numbers— - $58M in revenue in 2020, up 30% YoY - 50% of revenue comes from newsletter sponsorships - 85% of revenue is advertising - 1.4M newsletter subscribers - 4M newsletters sent daily - 20M uniques in August, up 3x YoY 147d
Proof of Effort: Putting Effort Over Results – Po.et Blog
JD - Po.et Blog 944d 2 tweets
A lot of people ask me, “Who are Po.et’s competitors?” This is a common and, in fact, fair question, especially as Po.et is an emerging…
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JD Proof of effort! 182d
New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators
Eric Feng - Medium 185d 4 tweets
One year ago this month, Hollywood was counting their box office tally for the all important summer movie season that contributes nearly…
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JD creator platforms are blowing up but creator adoption/output doesn’t directly correlate with platform revenue— some industries exploding (OnlyFans) while some remain stable (Substack, Bandcamp) 185d
355: Jarrod Dicker on The Rise of Individual Creators - The Pomp Podcast
Spotify 202d 1 tweets
Jarrod Dicker is the Vice President of Commercial at The Washington Post, where he oversees strategy, engineering, product operations, technology and R&D. In this conversation, we discuss newsletters, streaming music, individual creators growing...
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JD New w/ & me: the rise of individual creators We discuss media companies as record labels, how journalists are becoming rock stars, the unbundling & rebundling of work & what‘s next for the creator evolution. It’s 90 minutes & we go deep. 202d
It is possible to compete with the New York Times. Here’s how.
Columbia Journalism Review 208d 8 tweets
<p>Meredith Kopit Levien, who was named the new CEO of the New York Times last week, has six million subscribers, almost $700 million in cash in the bank, and a singular insight that underpins the Times’ path forward: the average number of news...
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JD My friend , who’s clearly coming for my job, presents a business strategy for my company & it's very, very interesting. 👀 208d
Media 2020: Rise of the Renaissance Creator
JD - Medium 209d 1 tweets
If media companies are record labels then creators are rock stars. And as rock stars, they’ll start to develop micro labels themselves.
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JD New Post: as media companies become record labels, creators become rock stars & the business changes for the better. This is the age of the Renaissance Creator. In the passion & ownership economy, creator's now become micro labels themselves. How? /1 209d
Legal support for Substack writers
On.substack.com 224d 8 tweets
For the last few months, we have been piloting a legal support program for independent writers on Substack. As of today, we’re making this legal support program more widely available.
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JD Independent creators are independent businesses, pt II - Substack announces legal support - Substack hints at editing, design, healthcare & financial support The formula for a creator economy is creator comfort & confidence. This initiative shows that. 224d
Napster’s long-arm & the unbundling of content
OM - On my Om 252d 2 tweets
Especially as post-pandemic problems pile up, many media companies blame the Internet giants as the cause of all their troubles. Of course, almost nobody blames their own short-sightedness in ignor…
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JD The news business should take lessons from the music industry—- 252d
Creators, Communities, and Crypto — Fred Ehrsam
Fred Ehrsam 252d 3 tweets
How creators and online communities can use crypto.
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JD this convo is church for the creator economy btwn & (& covers a lot I've been obsessing on)-- - equity/ownership in creators - status as identity - digital assets - individual as brand > community > business - investing in people 252d
The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen
Sriram Krishnan - Theobservereffect.org 256d 17 tweets
Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more.
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JD 1) read interview w/ 2) the design is beautiful & *quite literal* in that it's the most productive navigation of an article (ie. docs) about productivity 3) new "media" is about the individual: brand follows creator, not vice versa 256d
Never-ending Niches
Stratechery by Ben Thompson 260d 5 tweets
The Internet changed how media competes to focus and quality, but quality is defined by your niche.
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JD If we move subscriber functions from access (1:many) to utility (many:many), traditional news organizations become some of the most exclusive, valuable, "Clubhouse" communities on the web. 259d
The Next Media Business: Talent, Reputation and Lessons from Record Labels
JD - Medium 272d 2 tweets
The media companies of tomorrow should look a lot like the record labels of today.
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JD New Post: The media companies of tomorrow will look a lot like record labels of today. The best platforms/publishers will prioritize talent to build a business that puts creator reputation + brand reputation + operations at its core. How? Why? *click* 272d
Adobe, The New York Times Company and Twitter Announce Content Authenticity Initiative to Develop Industry Standard for Content Attribution
News.adobe.com 299d 1 tweets
At Adobe MAX, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Content Authenticity Initiative , along with The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), aimed at developing an industry standard for digital content attribution. The ability...
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JD i really butchered that tweet. in english: collaborations like the content authenticity initiative between adobe/nyt/twitter really start to show how creator tools can carry reputation throughout community that drive back to business 299d
The Newsroom at the Center of a Pandemic
Nytimes.com 345d 8 tweets
“That’s what local papers are meant to do”: The journalists at The Seattle Times have been aggressively covering the coronavirus as it affects their neighbors and friends.
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JD Why support local news? Look at Seattle: “[This is what] local papers are meant to do....we’re built for this.” “I think it is up to us to actually be there even if there is some danger, because if we’re not going to do it, nobody’s going to do it." 345d
‘There Is Plenty of Food in the Country’
Nytimes.com 346d 21 tweets
Americans have been alarmed by empty grocery shelves, but while food suppliers and retailers say they are struggling with surging demand, they insist the supply chain remains strong.
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JD THAT’s the story that should be reported. Great example here 346d
Introducing Betalab, lets fix things …
John Borthwick - Medium 356d 4 tweets
The internet is broken. And yes, we tried turning it off and back on, but that didn’t work.
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JD The investment in 'human-first' software will change the incentives of the web (ie. attention), influencing the products (ie. transparency & information) & as a result, the currency (ie. trust). An interesting groundwork for the (next) web. 356d
5. Scroll's big launch day is here
Axios 393d 1 tweets
The trends reshaping the digital media ecosystem, by Sara Fischer. Tuesday mornings
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JD User agency is a top priority going into the next decade & Scroll has taken a lead in enabling that for consumers. Individuals have the utility to chart their own path, their bundle, their access. Bravo to & his suite of white button downs. 393d
Mediating Consent
ribbonfarm 435d 13 tweets
When theologian Martin Luther debuted his Ninety-five Theses in 16th-century Germany, he triggered a religious Reformation — and also a media revolution. 1630 map of the Maluku Archipelago (Molucca…
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JD The role of journalism/media has evolved with the speed & scale of platforms and with it, an entirely new development opportunity in "mediation". This piece on the role of media, its history of consent--from manufacturing to mediating--is wonderful. 419d
Why The Washington Post is looking more like a tech company every day
Adage.com 481d 1 tweets
'We’re completely out of our minds if we think advertiser and subscriber revenue will carry us,' says Jarrod Dicker, the Post's vice president of commercial technology and development, in this edition of the 'Ad Lib' podcast.
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JD Fun jam session w/ on everything media, music & technology. Highlights: - The future media business isn't built on advertising & membership - Thought leadership means changing minds. It takes work (privacy, safety, stability) /1 481d