{"id":9911,"date":"2023-05-07T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/the-digital-media-bubble-has-burst-where-does-the-industry-go-from-here\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:37:22","slug":"the-digital-media-bubble-has-burst-where-does-the-industry-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/07\/the-digital-media-bubble-has-burst-where-does-the-industry-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The digital media bubble has burst. Where does the industry go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscape<\/p>\n

Toward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the failings of Buzzfeed News had come about as a result of a \u201cutopian ideology, from a kind of magical thinking\u201d.<\/p>\n

No truer words, perhaps, for a digital-based business that for a decade paddled in a warm bath of venture capital funding but never fully controlled its pricing and distribution, a basic business requirement that applies to information as much as it does to selling lemonade in the school yard or fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

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\nBuzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscape
\nToward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the failings of Buzzfeed News had come about as a result of a \u201cutopian ideology, from a kind of magical thinking\u201d.
\nNo truer words, perhaps, for a digital-based business that for a decade paddled in a warm bath of venture capital funding but never fully controlled its pricing and distribution, a basic business requirement that applies to information as much as it does to selling lemonade in the school yard or fossil fuels. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscape Toward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the failings of Buzzfeed News had come about as a result of a \u201cutopian …<\/p>\n

The digital media bubble has burst. Where does the industry go from here?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}