Members only Morning Conference emails Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media Apr 7, 2021 2 min read
blogging It's 2019, and you still need to own your content Beware the roach motels of the platforms - if content is your business, you still need to own and publish it yourself. Jun 7, 2019 1 min read
Medium Medium hunting for a magazine acquisition — and a sustainable business model Is Medium slowly becoming the Huffington Post circa 2008? It's hunt for more content suggests it might be. Dec 19, 2018 2 min read
Medium Medium: destroyer of journalism Ev Williams is full of a world of good intentions - but journalists who trusted Medium are paying the price. May 11, 2018 1 min read
Medium Medium kills the reader memberships of its final partners Medium continues the cull of all the features that made it a worthwhile platform to build a business on. May 10, 2018 1 min read
Medium Medium goes all in on being a social network for content Medium is leaving custom URLS behind - and that makes it a dangerous place for publishers. May 6, 2018 1 min read
blogging Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment. Sep 5, 2017 2 min read
How The Economist plays the platform game How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation… Apr 25, 2017 3 min read