audience engagement
Afternoon Coffee Reading Paid Members Public
Tech companies want AI search — but is it sustainable? Plus, the rise of WhatsApp audience engagement.
Always fish where the audience swim Paid Members Public
And other strained metaphors about the state of journalism.
The Media Inflection Point: a manifesto for audience centricity Paid Members Public
The doomsayers are out in force. Journalism is dead, they say. Just look at the job losses, the titles closing. But we’re just paying the price of bungling the last digital transition. Let’s not repeat that mistake with the coming one.
Cuttings #7: Is X throttling your site? Paid Members Public
That cheeky scamp Elon is at it again with his traffic throttling ways. Plus ChatGPT can now read news in real time…
Weekend Reads: social media cycles, AI and a podcast car crash Paid Members Public
Insights into the decline and fall of social networks, the audience capture of celebrities — and the surprisingly dangerous nature of podcasting.
What is a newsletter? Paid Members Public
Rethinking how we conceptualise newsletters, why you should ignore the podcast doom-mongers and more in today’s updates.
The hourglass: a potential replacement for the inverted pyramid? Paid Members Public
Could the Inverted Pyramid be defunct in the age of paywalls, with the more profitable Hourglass taking its place?
WhatsApp for war reporting, Reddit for search and Twitter for GIFs… Paid Members Public
Social platforms keep evolving in unexpected directions. Here's three changes that have become clear in recent weeks.
