Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. The technology blogs will be aflutter with continued criticisms of in-stream ads while mainstream consumers continue to click on links provided by the celebrities they respect and will buy products accordingly. Holy Shiitake !

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Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Organization Product 80

Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

You’ve made it to Friday. Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Entertainment Buzzfeed Venture Capital Journal 49

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies. And in commerce we have NastyGal, DailyLook, JustFab and many others. KickStarter? Gilt Groupe, AdoreMe, Thrillist, Birchbox? And on and on.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed. This is simply no different than curating on Pinterest, Tweeting interesting stories, editing on Wikipedia or blogging. So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions.

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Company Companies Startup Buzzfeed 150

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MARCH 11, 2016

It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. It has Vice, Tastemade, Vox, ESPN, Comedy Central, BuzzFeed and more. I can tell you now that between 1,100-1,500 people (growing by the week) will watch these in 24 hours.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

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JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, You’ll have to turn into my next video blog post to find out! AOL and the like. So we expect 2016 to be a bumper year.

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Company Companies Netflix Content 150