Supposedly, more and more consumers are turning to AI chatbots for book recommendations — typing in extremely detailed queries about the kinds of books they like. A GEO expert gave advice on how authors should craft their websites and retail pages so their books show up in these recommendations.
One of YouTube’s earliest fitness influencers pivoted to shortform video in 2021 and has built out her own fashion brand, which she promotes to her 11 million subscribers. “In 2021 I was like, I want to start sharing the process behind the design. People see me as a fitness instructor, which I am, b
Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo has 50,000 paid subscribers on Substack and is launching a UK edition that will be staffed by two full-time journalists. The company already has 15 full-time staffers.
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One of the top food creators on Substack is using viral Instagram videos to drive signups to her newsletter. “On many of Chambers' cooking videos, she includes a simple direction in the caption: Comment [whatever she's cooking] and I'll send you the recipe! Within seconds, users get a direct message
Data from an anonymous metropolitan newspaper found that civics-focused news that included original reporting was most likely to convert readers into paid subscribers.
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Ok, I have a few observations on this.
The first is that LinkedIn doesn’t currently let you export your “newsletter” subscribers’ email addresses, which means it fully owns the relationship with those subscribers. In fact, I could be wrong about this, but I don’t even think LinkedIn sends your full
Apparently YouTube is funding its own late night comedy show?
Here’s the weird thing though, outside of this one website I’ve never heard of, I can’t find any other reporting that YouTube is behind this. I feel like if the company were actually making such a big move then other outlets would be rep
Obviously, when ESPN signed its deal with McAfee back in 2023, it was a watershed moment in media in that it represented the first high profile licensing arrangement where a creator would stream their show on a major broadcast network while simultaneously maintaining 100% ownership of the show. In f
Capital Weather Gang is decamping from the Washington Post and going independent again.
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There’s a new startup that aims to help left-leaning creators with production and sponsorship sales. Its pitch is that progressive media needs to build up this sort of infrastructure if it wants to provide a counterbalance to rightwing media, which has a huge head start.
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Mehdi Hasan is soft-launching his left-of-centre news company in the UK after reaching more than 50,000 paid subscribers in the US.
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
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LinkedIn has shifted from a pure business-networking app to a social feed with 1.3 billion users. Internal docs show the new features it's planning.
YouTube’s first official answer to late night has no studio walls—but it does now have a launch date.Juli
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In the Washington region, the local weather crew has developed a cult following. Now, it will be going by Capital Weather again as an independent organization.
A riveting conversation with Peter Rothpletz, founder of the newly launched Verbatim Media, which hopes to do for progressive creators what Fox’s Red Seat Ventures has done for Tucker Carlson and Megy...
