Story of my life
15,000 people. And Meta doesn’t share hardly any of its revenue with the creators that provide most of its value. Such a garbage company
Watched MATERIALISTS because it was streaming on HBO Max. I was surprised by how much I didn’t hate it. Definitely explored romantic relationships in a unique way.
(My email address is easy to find. I don't really respond to social media DMs)
Do you live in the Washington, DC area?
With the weather getting nicer, I want to get out and network more with people working in media and communications. If you want to meet up for lunch or after-work happy hour, reach out to me via email and we’ll get something scheduled.
With this move, Substack is essentially competing with SaaS platforms like Riverside and Descript that make it easy for podcasters to record video and audio versions of their podcasts simultaneously.
One detail not included in this announcement is whether the recordings are done natively to each m
A lot of smaller creators struggle to grow their businesses because they don't yet have the scale or the connections to form custom brand partnerships, so affiliate platforms like this can become a powerful tool for allowing them to start generating meaningful revenue. Previously, creators were limi
I’m heading troublesome reports that assassinating the leader of the spice rich regions is not working as per plan; since the son has survived and is leading a religious rebellion blocking spice exports.
Let’s see what happens if Imperial Sardaukar are deployed.
I think it's smart for a media outlet to publish subscriber-only content directly to the inbox vs forcing them to click through to the website. There's lots of data showing that paid subscribers who open newsletters regularly are much less likely to churn than those who don't, so any editorial produ
The US president who raped at least a dozen women and a 13-year-old is currently in the process of crashing the economy
I guess I don’t understand why software companies are under threat from AI in the short term. Are companies really going to be vibe coding their own accounting software from scratch? Seems unlikely.
From MrBeast to microdramas: Scott Brown’s bet on phone-native storytelling
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All we had to do to avoid this was pick the woman over the guy who raped a 13-year-old, and we couldn’t even do that.
This is a 45-minute breakdown of how a YouTuber with 130,000 subscribers generated a solid six figures in income last year. I’ve watched a lot of these sorts of videos, and what I like about this one is how thorough she is in walking through her process for everything ranging from choosing affiliate
Yes, please kill the filibuster. It's an anti-democratic rule that makes elections less meaningful.
While I'm skeptical that we'll be able to soon make Marvel-quality, VFX-heavy movies from home, I do think we'll be able to make them for a lot less money. What once cost $200 million might be produced for only a fraction of that amount. Already I'm starting to see VFX work on Instagram Reels that w
Johnny and Iz Harris are doing something genuinely new in the media space by building a launchpad for creator-journalists. They partner with individual reporters, paying them a salary and pairing them with a dedicated video production team. Johnny then uses his massive YouTube channel to help kick-s
Just received in the mail. Excited to dig into this!
Back in 2014, ESPN signaled that it was more firmly rooted in the entertainment business than the journalism business when it suspended Bill Simmons for criticizing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The network was essentially making a calculated decision that it wasn’t in its business interests to an
You could argue that YouTube is still in the early stages of its business growth. The platform has built an almost perfect flywheel: it only pays creators when their content succeeds. That’s a stark contrast to traditional streamers like Netflix and Paramount, which routinely spend hundreds of milli
Inside the YouTube strategy that turned Starter Story into a $2M+ media brand
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Your semi-regular reminder that I almost always say yes to interview requests for podcasts, newsletters, and YouTube channels -- no matter how big your audience is. Not only do I bring my A game to these interviews, but I also promote them across my newsletter and social channels.
One of the impressive things about the Atlantic is that it was playing the same scale game as every other 2010s-era social-media-first publisher but managed to see the writing on the wall and pivot hard toward paid subscriptions. It famously shuttered its Atlantic Wire news aggregator and then doubl
A TikTok creator with 1.3 million followers reveals that she's not even making enough money to pay her rent despite generating 360 million views in only 9 months. Her video is a plea for traditional media companies to hire her, but I also think it's an indictment of TikTok, which doesn't properly sh
Nothing signals "the stock market is not the economy" better than how it reacts whenever Trump issues some new word salad to a reporter.
I would argue she did not do a very good job and failed to grab a lot of low-hanging fruit.
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In a movie industry dominated by franchises, Pixar long stood out as a studio capable of consistently producing original hit films. But in recent years, it has released enough box office disappointments that it’s been forced to place greater emphasis on producing sequels.
Still one of my favorite clips of all time
James Patterson is less an author and more of a branded book production agency. He not only employs an army of "collaborators" who do most of the writing for his books, but he also regularly enters co-author partnerships with other famous people in an effort to cross-pollinate audiences and boost sa
The guy who raped a 13-year-old has caused gas prices to spike and the markets to tumble.
