Sitemap - 2019 - Simon Owens's Media Newsletter

Why Apple’s daily newsletter is a bigger deal than you realize

Why paid podcast subscriptions are so hard to scale

Why Patreon’s $1 billion milestone is so significant

3 ways to create a bad user experience for your podcast listeners

Substack built a framework for how platforms can support creators

Why the tech platforms lost interest in streaming live sports

How platforms abandon their homegrown creators

The media industry might be healthier than you realize

This startup wants to solve podcasting’s monetization problem

How BuzzFeed is solving native advertising’s scale problem

Will 10 million people pay for personal essays?

How Harvard Business Review generated 2.5 million newsletter signups

How Clive Thompson became one of the most influential tech journalists

Why I'd choose 5,000 podcast listeners over 100,000 Twitter followers

He founded one of the earliest tech blogs. Now he edits a newsletter

Why nearly every news publisher should have a podcast strategy

Why bundled subscriptions won’t save the news industry

Why Hulu is poised to become an advertising juggernaut

Why making a living as a freelance journalist is so difficult

Why generating “1,000 true fans” is a lot harder than it looks

Inside Vox Media’s podcast strategy

How YouTube is rigged against independent video creators

Why the “Trump Bump” didn’t deliver much revenue to news publishers

Facebook decimated this publisher’s business. So it became a paid newsletter.

Why your favorite YouTube channels look more and more like cable TV

This indie newsletter generated over 10,000 paying subscribers

The race to build a podcast recommendation engine and why it matters

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