The former executives in charge of The Week magazine are launching a new subscription-based climate media company on Wednesday called Heatmap News, its founders told Axios.The big picture: It's the latest in a slew of climate-based media startups to...
Back in 2020, direct-to-consumer men’s soap brand Dr. Squatch dedicated most of its social ad dollars to Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, spending zilch on alternative platforms like TikTok and Snap. But over the last three years, as online advertising...
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year, ‘The New Gatekeepers’.
Origen: Presentations — Benedict Evans
It is no secret that trust in the media has declined, especially over the last decade.In 2016, Gallup announced a record low 32% of Americans have confidence in the media, and in the last six years, that number has...
“People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global “news programs, partnerships, and content.”In a press release titled,...
Tortoise Media‘s listenership has nearly doubled in a year, an executive at the “slow news” start-up has said.Tortoise commercial director Alice Sandelson told an event at its office in London’s Berners Street on Thursday (pictured above) that listenership has...
Since his acquisition of Twitter, tech mogul Elon Musk has received pushback on numerous occasions for promoting false information and conspiracy theories (some of which he has since walked back). Science Feedback, a fact-checking organization focused on data and...
An Instagram user, Tommy Vext, recently posted, “If your global crisis requires publicity stunts to convince everyone there is a crisis, there is no global crisis.” Climate change is a major concern, so I decided to take a closer...
The New York Times website was the fastest-growing top ten news website in the world by a large margin in January, according to Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of global online traffic to English-language newsbrands.Top 50 most popular news websites...
AI. The word of the moment. Rife with questions, opportunity, existential angst – and potentially significant impact on the journalism industry. Buzzfeed and Reach PLC, for example, both recently shared plans to explore the potential of AI-generated content –...
