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Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: “Ask me a question.” Basically I told everyone to jump into the comments section of the post and ask me any questions they have about the media industry or creator economy.
Several of you did pipe in with some amazing questions. I then invited on Alexis Grant, the founder of They Got Acquired, to help me answer them.
We answered questions on a range of topics like:
Which media companies are succeeding with native advertising
The best ways for media outlets to run live events
How to grow your audience in a world where Google and Facebook are sending less and less traffic
What a Substack advertising platform would look like.
How Ben McCarthy built a Salesforce-focused media company with 400,000 monthly readers
How Joe Pulizzi built and sold The Tilt, a newsletter and conference business geared toward creators
How Brad Hargreaves built Thesis Driven, a newsletter and data product focused on real estate
How Andreas Sator built one of the most popular podcasts in Austria
How William Knight built Early Morning Media, a B2B newsletter company
How Tom Arbuthnot built Empowering Cloud, a media comapany focused on Microsoft cloud products
How CJ Gustafson built Mostly Metrics, a newsletter for CFOs
How Sam Koslowski helped build The Daily Aus, a social first media outlet in Australia
The state of newsletter advertising in 2024
How Riad Chikhani built GAMURS Group, one of the largest gaming media companies in the world
How to monetize newsletters on LinkedIn
How Jack Kramer and Nick Martell sold their media company to Robinhood and then bought it back
How Cityside built a sustainable model for local news
How Lucas Grindley helped Next City grow to 1,000 paying members
Will Spotify's audiobook streaming be good for authors?
How Gabe Fleisher built Wake Up To Politics, a daily newsletter with over 50,000 subscribers
The biggest difference between the Creator Economy and traditional media
Will Buzzfeed file for bankruptcy in 2024?
How Kelsey Ogletree built Pitchcraft, a membership community for PR pros
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