As Medium founder and former Twitter CEO Evan Williams points out in a recent post, there is still far too much obsession with metrics like pageviews and unique visitors instead of… Read more »
Twitter is trying to appeal to new users with enhancements like its “while you were away” feature, which recommends content a user might have missed — but every tweak risks pushing… Read more »
Emerson Spartz started creating viral content websites when he was 12, and now he runs a company that specializes in understanding how content spreads, and why — something more media companies… Read more »
The success of email newsletters is a sign of how powerful — and valuable — personal curation can be for readers who are swamped by an ever-growing flood of real-time information Read more »
Medium has launched another sponsored magazine — or collection of articles — that is focused on a specific topic, in this case travel. Media companies should be watching closely Read more »
Vox Media has closed a financing round that values the company at almost $400 million, and BuzzFeed is valued at twice that level — but will the funds that made these… Read more »
Outbrain, which powers the “recommended links” sections that appear at the bottom of many news sites, is reportedly considering an IPO for early next year that could value the company at… Read more »
According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it… Read more »
Google is launching a new service for websites called Contributor, which allows users to sign up and pay anywhere from $1 to $3 a month to sites that they visit frequently… Read more »
SAY Media, created when video-content company VideoEgg acquired blog-software provider Six Apart in 2010, says it is selling off its media properties — the latest example of a company getting squeezed… Read more »