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Substack’s Shopify problem
Meet the new middleman
How Puck is putting creators at the center of a media brand
COO Liz Gough on the sweet spot between institutional and personal brands
Autonomy
Personal brands are a reaction to institutional failures
The Logic’s David Skok on being a journalist founder
‘The news industry is as much product and business strategy as editorial’
The institutional-individual brand continuum
Finding the best of institutional brands and individual
Howard Mittman on 'mission-driven' publishing
Need > Feed
End of an era of ad targeting
Publishers will need closer ties to their audiences
How Blockworks got to $20m in revenue in 4 years
"The one thing that we got right is believing that crypto would eventually become an institutional asset class"
Peak news
Spending less time on news is bad for publishers but good for society
How Famous Birthdays built a data business from celebrity searches
The IMDB of the creator class cashes in on internal search data
The Mayo Game
Running a sustainable publishing business should not mean optimizing to what you can get away with