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I'm NOT canceling my subscription to WashPost, and here's why: One of the reasons I believe our country is rife with distrust and misinformation and is highly polarized is because the news industry has been collapsing under dire financial pressure for over the last 15+ years. We've lost thousands of local outlets, and tens of thousands of skilled journalists have left the profession. Canceling your subscription to WashPost basically does nothing to Jeff Bezos. He doesn't make any money off the Post. But it DOES jeopardize the paychecks of hardworking journalists trying to do their jobs in brutal industry conditions and the ability for WashPost to invest in the meaningful and costly journalism this country needs to hold power to account. If you really want to protest Bezos' interference (I personally think the editorial board should have endorsed FTR), CANCEL YOUR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERSHIP AND STOP ORDERING SHIT FROM AMAZON. This is how you hold this particular Billionaire to account without shooting our democracy in the foot. If you are steadfast in canceling your subscription, I urge you to subscribe to another rigorous national or local news-gathering outlet.

🔦Spotlight on: Yahoo Finance 🔦 CEO only wanting CNBC? You’re missing out on a gold mine. I’m talking about Yahoo! Finance. With over 150 million global monthly visitors, Yahoo! Finance - and Yahoo - have been kicking butt and taking names. 🎥 September: rolled out several new programs including NEXT and Lead This Way 💻 November: launched site and app redesign with a new homepage, portfolio view, updated news hub and more 🤖 April: acquired Artifact, an AI-driven news aggregation and discovery platform designed to surface personalized content on users’ feeds 🔔 April: Tapan Bhat and team rang the Opening Bell to celebrate the launch of their premium experience with new content and shows, including Opening Bid, Wealth, Catalysts, Asking for a Trend and Stocks in Translation That, on top of a string of all-star new hires from Tressie Lieberman as CMO to Josh Lipton as Anchor and Sona Iliffe-Moon as Chief Comms Officer, among others. 💪🏻 I’ve worked with Brian Sozzi aka “The Hardest Working Man in Media” since 2018 and have done segments with Jet.com, Walmart, Pinterest and several clients and friends. 1️⃣ His work ethic is second-to-none as he uses the “Day 1” mindset and performs magic distilling heavy content and stock analysis into easily digestible content and reporting. Moral of the story —> don’t sleep on Yahoo! Finance! Oh, and let me know if you need some help. I got a guy. 👇🏻😉💪🏻

Post announces it's shutting down. "It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We built a toxicity-free community, a platform where Publishers engage, and an app that validated many theories around Micropayments and consumers’ willingness to purchase individual articles. We even managed to cultivate a phenomenal tipping ecosystem for creators and commenters. But, at the end of the day, our service is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform. A consumer business, at its core, needs to show rapid consumer adoption and we have not managed to find the right product combination to make it happen." https://lnkd.in/gNUFzucs

Quite interesting perspective from Tim O’Reilly. In short. What has brought success to big guys like Amazon, Google, Facebook? With internet, you are overloaded with information, and they are managing your attention, scarce and precious resource. Directing it where it needs to be. A little bit artificial term "rising tide rent" is used to describe why these folks were receiving more economical value (and so grew faster) than other participants of their ecosystem. Basically, positive sum game, where they had a lead. Then now, when their dominance is well-established, while growth is naturally getting slower, they are changing the strategy. Abuse of "paid" search results shifts us a zero sum game, and excess economical value big guys are receiving is solely defined by where and who they are. "Robber baron rent". Personally, I'd just use word "rent" here without overcomplicating things. Funny, but I've seen this pattern many times with restaurants. First years they focus on value. Then they have a reputation and an established client base, and shifting to milk these, as much as possible. Making shortcuts on everything so both food and service slowly becoming crappy. Link is in the first comment #strategy #innovation

For CEOs, two media milestones stand out: the day you grace the front page of your national masthead and the day you land on the back page. Yesterday, Linktree, one of Australia’s most prominent tech unicorns, found itself in the crosshairs of Rear Window. As one of the most widely read—and influential—sections of the Australian Financial Review, its impact on public perception is significant. To date, Linktree haven't responded. When you’re in crisis, the temptation is to shut down. To put your phone on airplane mode and wait for the storm to pass. Your loved ones may give you this advice — ignore them, it’s just noise. They’re just jealous, and what they write has no bearing on you or your company. While it might be well-intentioned, this advice is dumb. In this piece, I explore how Linktree could have clapped back - and used effective crisis comms to show they're in command. Have a gander... #linktree #media #venturecapital

Tell me you’re Head of Growth without telling me you’re Head of Growth. I’ll go first: I just spent two hours in a meeting with a VC investment analyst tweaking numbers in Google Sheets to see how much we have to spend on Google Ads to hit our revenue targets in Q4. Now your turn.

More terrible news for the #media industry, this time impacting TechCrunch. It has been long considered the "newspaper of record" for Silicon Valley. It helped elevate breakthrough startups, shared the achievements and less successful endeavors of tech firms, and brought to our attention innovations that might have otherwise been invisible in areas we don't typically care about. Even with all its success, the publication isn't immune to the changing business climate. This week, it parted ways with some amazing journalists, including Darrell Etherington, Matt Burns, Harri Elizabeth Weber, Catherine Shu, and Morgan Sung. If you're looking for outstanding media professionals, please start here 👆 Also, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos said in an internal memo the company's subscription program, TC+, will be shutting down. Originally called ExtraCrunch, it launched in 2019 as a way to diversify revenue back when TechCrunch was owned by Verizon — it's now owned by Yahoo. Additionally — and perhaps relevant to those in #marketing and #PR — TechCrunch will no longer accept guest contributions. With the restructuring, the publication plans to focus on original reporting and content, along with sponsored posts. Read more about the memo in Mark Stenberg's report for ADWEEK 👇 https://lnkd.in/e5u2cqGd #journalism #technology #business #siliconvalley

There are no million-dollar ideas. Ideas do not crawl out of someone’s head and build themselves, grow themselves, and sell themselves. They do not develop strategies, reiterate, and iterate again. They don’t take the blame for bad quarters or the praise for great ones. Ideas do not generate millions in revenue. People do, and they should be paid for it. Today, the Crooked Media Workers Union staged a walkout after a year of negotiating for a fair contract. We’ve demanded humane layoff protections and competitive wage minimums, and we’ve demanded this not because we hate our jobs, but because we love what we do. Crooked Media has given us so much to be grateful for, that we’d rather fight for it to grow alongside us than dust off our hands and say, “Good enough.” We’re fighting to ensure that our internal policies and practices reflect the values espoused by our products—the same values our audience expects us to uphold. Ever since I stumbled upon Crooked Media in my junior year of college, I’ve sung its praises high and low. Ask anyone I’ve worked with. Whenever we had a brainstorm for branding or new products, the phrase “like Crooked Media” was guaranteed to come out of my mouth. Being on the inside is always different, and while it’s impossible to cling to the sheen of impeachability I held before, what I’ve seen on the inside has only deepened my appreciation and awe for the work this team accomplishes every day. Seeing editors and producers work overnight to deliver content that stays apace with an unprecedented news cycle. Seeing our founders courageously become some of the first progressive pundits to publicly urge Biden to suspend his campaign. Seeing our HR team develop resources to support our mental health as we wade through traumatic news day in and day out. Seeing our community team foster relationships with our audience as they do the same. Seeing our writers somehow turn that traumatic news into punchlines that both heal and encourage. It’s astounding what happens here. Crooked Media isn’t just three guys and a microphone. Crooked Media is no longer just an idea those three guys had. Crooked Media is Crooked freaking Media because it has amassed an unrivaled collective of talented, hardworking staffers who are dedicated to improving the world one bit of content at a time. And if we’re going to change the world for the better—if we’re going to create podcasts and merch and events pushing for a future where we all rise together, that future has to start here. That future has to start with a fair contract. --- If you'd like to support the Crooked Media Workers Union, follow us on Instagram at @/crooked_union for ways to help. #crookedmediaworkersunion #crookedmedia #unionstrong #wga #wgaeast #walkout #fairwages #fairpay #layoffs #layoffprotections #progressivemedia #podcastindustry #podcasting

What started as an idea during our team brainstorm just a few weeks ago has now become Jungle Scout's first-ever LinkedIn newsletter, The Cobalt Pulse📉 Huge kudos to Jenna Christie and LeeAnn Whittemore, who took the initiative to create an extremely insightful newsletter in under a month. It’s amazing to have such motivated and talented people on my team who can take ideas and bring them to life so quickly. We launched The Cobalt Pulse just 24 hours ago, and we're already approaching 2K subscribers! This is proof that there’s a huge appetite for the data-driven insights we’re sharing with brands. If you’re selling on Amazon or in the ecommerce industry and want to stay on top of market trends, you don’t want to miss this 📊 Check out The Cobalt Pulse and subscribe to stay in the loop with bi-weekly newsletters. See the comments for a link to subscribe 👇 #LinkedInNewsletter #MarketTrends #AmazonFBA #AmazonInsights #EcommerceData #AmazonTips #AmazonBrand

It's often easier to stick with the familiar than deviate off path and do something new. I was chatting with a fellow founder recently and was struck by a $40,000 example of this. One of his flavors was not scaling well into their new co-packer. They were ready to spend $40K on a food scientist to get it to work. It's easy to get trapped in the familiar, to just throw money at a problem, creating a false sense of certainty and preserving the status quo. But being the financial-math nerd I am, I couldn't help think about the ROI of this. What struck me was that this investment would NOT: 1) increase volumes 2) lower costs, or 3) increase pricing power The incremental earnings potential was therefore $0. So I encouraged them to think about what else that $40K could be spent on, and ask themselves whether any of those other ideas might generate a better ROI than this one (which is essentially 0%). Like I said; It's easy to get trapped in the familiar. But when you take a step back, and think about the big picture, very often alternative options will appear - and often times they'll be better than the status quo. ----- Enjoy this? ♻️ Repost it to your network and follow Nate Littlewood for more. Want to Learn How to Manage Your eComm or CPG Finances More Efficiently? Sign Up For My Newsletter: lnkd.in/equWNs5e