News Roundup: De-politicising Threads and profitable Indies
Another round-up of audience news, derived from my sessions with my Audience Strategy students at City, University of London.
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Another round-up of audience news, derived from my sessions with my Audience Strategy students at City, University of London.
And other strained metaphors about the state of journalism.
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.
Threads has gone global by finally launching in the EU, and is beginning to add ActivityPub, connecting it to the Mastodon world. Could it be winning?
Newsletters are over, apparently. But we know better than that, don't we?
Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developing…
TikTok is both a necessity to reaching younger audiences, and a platform we should be incredibly wary of. How do we reconcile these two facts?
Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.
Fake images in real stories, niches fight lies and BeReal BeDoomed, in Friday's round up of audience and journalism news.