“So what gives? Is the media business tanking or thriving? The answer is, well, both.”— Max Read, nymag.com
“Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers”— Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com
“It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth.”— Sahil Lavingia, medium.com
“"The reality is Patreon needs to build new businesses and new services and new revenue lines in order to build a sustainable business.”— Jack Conte, cnbc.com
“Over 265,000 digital subscriptions were added in the last three months of 2018.”— Associated Press, marketwatch.com
“We know that there is natural interest in wanting to recreate that look. We see the brand as a response to the user journey.”— Anna-Lisa Yabsley, glossy.co
“Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, is starting Air Mail, an all-digital international news platform...”— Alex Williams, nytimes.com
“These results prove the resilience of the core Facebook platform.”— Christopher Rossbach, bloomberg.com
“I think media is still a great business, if you run it like a damn business.”— Jim VandeHei, nytimes.com
“BuzzFeed’s brand still holds cache and they still have decent reach — I would put them in the top 10 to 15 percentile — but there are other strong contenders for our brands, which will only further fragment media dollars.”— Kaitlyn Boulos, digiday.com
“To make up for some of the loss in manpower, BuzzFeed will lean more heavily on unpaid contributors and editorial fellows to make quizzes, sources said. This year, BuzzFeed will resurrect a fellowships program, but in an expanded form. Fellowships will last 12 months instead of three, and the number…”— Max Willens, digiday.com
“Underlying the greed of Google and Facebook that brought us to this point is the folly of the media executives and their growth-minded investors.”— Cale Guthrie Weissman, fastcompany.com
“Similar to Reddit, users can upvote or downvote an article — but not every vote is equal.”— Slava Balasanov, blog.relevant.community
“People are starting to realize this nursing of millennial journalism is sort of silly. A lot of media companies came out and said, ‘we have a better way to connect and run with us because we know millennials.’ I wonder if the marketplace is calling bullshit on that one.”— Barry Lowenthal, adweek.com
“When you see that Kendall Jenner was paid $200,000 to post an orange square, that just wouldn’t happen now. Brands are asking more questions around influencers they work with, what brands they worked with and the content they’re creating.”— Mae Karkowski, digiday.com
“The biggest challenge they have is that the defining characteristic of millennials is, there is no defining characteristic. Marketers desperately want millennials to be more monolithic, but the older end are parents with a couple kids, the younger end is just getting out of college. It's the most cu…”— Chris Wexler, businessinsider.com
“Consider this: Never have so many had to communicate so much complexity to buyers who’ve had so little attention and so many filters and roadblocks at their disposal. If you’re selling in our world you feel it every day: the unreturned emails and calls; the sure-thing deals that slipped away; the in…”— Doug Weaver, getthedrift.com
“The restructuring we are undertaking will reduce our costs and improve our operating model so we can thrive and control our own destiny, without ever needing to raise funding again. These changes will allow us to be the clear winner in the market as the economics of digital media continue to improve…”— Jonah Peretti, recode.net
“Turning the sky into an enormous canvas for satellite-generated ads would be a winner for marketers looking for new ways to reach their audience...”— Trevor Mogg, digitaltrends.com
“I think viewers are indulging the opportunity to have as many Fyre Festival documentaries as they could possibly consume. People would be excited to watch 10 of them if there were 10 of them.””— Jenner Furst, theringer.com