“Scale for some reason has this odd, negative connotation to it. If there’s one thing Vox Media believes, it’s that scale and quality can coexist — and doing that across platforms. Especially in the advertising industry, the biggest advertising platforms in the world don’t believe they’re making a sc…”— Ryan Pauley, digiday.com
“HQ CEO Rus Yusupov reportedly sent a note to employees announcing that HQ would cease operations.”— Jay Peters, theverge.com
“While details are limited, Column appears to be conceived of as a service that would allow users to share posts and media with each other either in public or private spaces.”— Angela Chen, technologyreview.com
“We all know that the days of easily calculated return on investment are years, if not decades, behind us. The once-simple formula, which compared how much a brand spent on an ad campaign to how many people it reached, has been replaced with new math for our digital age. While the temptation might be…”— Jessica Martin, adage.com
“Company faces large equity payments to one of its biggest investors following $450 million investment round in 2017”— Benjamin Mullin, Keach Hagey and Lillian Rizzo, wsj.com
“Though back in 2011 we might not have been able to articulate this, or appreciate how ambitious it was, we also wanted to create an alternative literary canon, counter to the one we’d been taught in school and had witnessed forming when we worked in corporate book publishing.”— Emily Gould, tinyletter.com
“The opposites thing is actually part of the attraction and why it makes sense.”— Josh Topolsky, digiday.com
“Spotify is making yet another big budget purchase aimed at getting a lead in the growing podcast industry: The streaming music company has agreed to a deal to purchase The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons.”— Peter Kafka, vox.com
“Dotdash, the IAC-owned digital publishing company that grew from About.com, has acquired two new digital publishers, TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network, to create a new sustainability vertical within its portfolio.”— Sara Fischer, axios.com
“In its short existence, Clickhole has changed hands multiple times.”— Katie Notopoulos, buzzfeednews.com
“Media email newsletter Morning Brew is reporting a surge in revenue, new subscribers and a slate of key new hires as it enters its fifth year.”— Melynda Fuller, mediapost.com
“Famous Birthdays has found a niche: providing slimmed-down biographies and ranking the popularity of Generation Z social media stars and celebrities like Charli D’Amelio and Shawn Mendes.”— Kayleigh Barber, digiday.com
“My goal for the next decade isn't to be liked but to be understood.”— Mark Zuckerberg, news.yahoo.com
“Penn National Gaming has agreed to buy a 36% stake in Barstool Sports for $136 million — a deal that values the company at $450 million.”— Kendall Baker, axios.com
“The business model, in a nutshell, was to use the internet as a massive focus group to pitch television shows.”— Kate Knibbs, wired.com
“The path to profitability and success was direct and obvious to him. We just needed to create more content and let him run the ship.”— Samer Kalaf, cjr.org
“A global wave of new copyright laws means that platforms are likely to have to start paying publishers for the right to carry their content, even if it's just a linked headline or bit of text.”— Sara Fischer, axios.com
“Some people read Playboy for the articles — and a deaf Brooklyn man apparently watches Pornhub with an eye to the plots.”— NYDAILYNEWS, nydailynews.com