Love this. He’s downsizing offices, getting cheaper chairs, and moving fast. This is what you have to do to make $ if you’re a pageview company. Kudos to him for having the courage. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at-new-ceos-insane-direction?source=twitter&via=desktop … via @thedailybeast
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Yeah. The great writers that work there will love this model.
They may not. But that's how the old owner set up his business. His #1 metric was pageviews. In fact, he even had "traffic-whoring" duty where writer chased clicks. So, unless they make money in another way, seems like more traffic whoring is the answer:https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/i-cant-stop-reading-this-analysis-of-gawkers-editorial-strategy/ …
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The whole deal with getting chummy with brands is what I was referring to. Original owner at least had independence. Also: doesn’t look like page views are the #1 metric if they forbade this:https://twitter.com/_grendan/status/1151709298898214912?s=21 …
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Well they weren’t really independent as they couldn’t pay the bills and had to shut down.
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