“U.S. advertisers spent $479.1 million advertising on podcasts in 2018, up 53% from about $313.9 million a year earlier, according to a new report from the industry group Interactive Advertising Bureau and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC.”— Patience Haggin, wsj.com
“This is Barstool. All the time. Every day of the week, the company exists to sic a mob of hateful frogs on anyone who doesn’t buy a cheap Goodell clown shirt.”— Drew Magary, deadspin.com
“Publishers know that people who comment on articles tend to read more and visit more often, which makes useful comment sections a smart retention lever. Having the data to prove this is one thing, but how publishers apply this knowledge is another.”— Lucinda Southern, digiday.com
“Since going public in 1999, the company has been on a steady losing streak, posting losses year after year.”— Dana E. Neutus, subscriptioninsider.com
“Behind the products we use every day there are people with access to highly sensitive customer data, who need it to perform essential work on the service. But, without proper protections in place, those same people may abuse it to spy on users' private information or profiles.”— Joseph Cox, vice.com
“WhatsApp has revealed a vulnerability in its system that could have allowed hackers access to its users' phones, with a London-based human rights lawyer possibly among the targets.”— Donie O'Sullivan, edition.cnn.com
“To foster the innovation that was key to his vision for Match Group, though, failure had to be a part of the recipe, Yagan said. So, he incentivized failure within the company, asking executives in their reviews to share a failure from the year prior. If their mistakes hadn’t cost the company money,…”— McKenna Moore, fortune.com
“While Facebook had previously taken partial action against Jones, he and other extremists found a welcome home on Instagram, where they garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, making the platform fertile ground for conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist thought.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“I have not reinvented the editorial wheel. I am not disrupting online publishing. I don’t have all the answers.”— Roxane Gay, gay.medium.com
“Texting is only one part of theSkimm’s growing empire, which includes a daily podcast called “Skimm This,” focusing on four news stories each day via a 10-minute show, an app that pulls together news, recommendations and a calendar synced with events for a $2.99 a month membership fee.”— Melynda Fuller, mediapost.com
“The path to a successful media career has never been easy — not simply competitive, but also problematically elitist, often favoring the privileged few who could afford to take a low-paying assistant job.”— Hannah Hickok, fashionista.com
“This market structure-based understanding of competition was a foundation of antitrust thought and policy through the 1960s.”— Lina M. Khan, yalelawjournal.org
“Following a tumultuous 2018 in which its offices were raided by the Manhattan D.A., its editors publicly rebuked its parent company for interfering with their reporting and its former co-owner was indicted on fraud and money-laundering charges, Newsweek is looking for a fresh start.”— Greg Dool, foliomag.com
“Perhaps this may come as a surprise, but neither local nor state police have jurisdiction over which accounts are allowed to remain on Instagram.”— Emily Alford, jezebel.com
“Later, Univision wrote off its investments in FMG, GMG and The Onion, claiming a loss of $32.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.”— Sahil Patel, digiday.com
“Last year, GMG and The Onion combined generated roughly $80 to $85 million in overall revenue, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But with all expenses added up, the organization was tens of millions in the red, sources said.”— Sahil Patel, digiday.com
“Conde Nast is the company behind some of the world’s most glamorous and influential magazines, including Vogue, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. It is also a company in decline, because the magazine business is in decline.”— Peter Kafka, recode.net
“The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.”— Re/Code, recode.net