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The NY Times , by comparison, has just 9 million subscribers. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to MrBeast, who runs 18 YouTube channels with more than 200 million subscribers—and now has his videos translated into Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.

Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture

An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.

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Ideas from George Mack:

1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.

2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..

The job for any studio is to create a great story and exploit it across as many channels as possible—theme parks, merchandise, games, movies, TV, TikTok, etc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-23/netflix-youtube-and-tubi-are-reasons-for-optimism-in-hollywood?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=W6GJF3MS

I graduated from college with a journalism degree in 2008. And since then there has been an elusive dream of "micropayments" helping fund journalism. The idea was that you'd kick a dollar or two to every article you read and everyone would be happy.

Sean Blanda • A half-baked idea: NFT for writers

Poparazzi seems to lack any of the hallmarks of anything lasting. There is nothing new to the mode, nothing that cannot be done elsewhere, nothing truly unique or interesting. Restricting what you can do in a social network works with the length of a video, but it doesn’t really work with photos. It’s just another app that will be gone in a few mon... See more

Ed Zitron • Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession

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