Tag: media

• The Future of Influencer Marketing Is in China

  January 13, 2020

  China’s influencer marketing industry is three to five years ahead of the rest of the world. The advanced functionality and integration of social media, e-commerce, and digital payment in China… more ›

• BuzzFeed In 2020

  January 13, 2020

  BuzzFeed’s core strength has always been our ability to adapt and innovate as the world changes. When BuzzFeed started, smart phones didn’t exist, the social platforms were just for personal… more ›

• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise

  January 12, 2020

  Tens of billions of dollars in financial assistance from the Chinese government helped propel Huawei to the top of global telecommunications, a scale of support that dwarfed what its tech… more ›

• 7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over

  January 12, 2020

  In October of last year, I wrote about the absurdity of the fact that Big Media content companies and distributors were spending unprecedented sums to increase their exposure to a… more ›

• Enforcing Against Manipulated Media

  January 12, 2020

  People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform. Some of that content is manipulated, often… more ›

• Spotify is a Prison for Podcasts

  January 11, 2020

  I have been a happy customer of Spotify for several years now, after flirting back and forth with Apple Music, Google Play Music and the late Rdio for several years… more ›

• Fat Protocols

  January 9, 2020

  Here’s one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc. https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/ more ›

• Journalists become media literacy teachers

  January 2, 2020

  On the eve of 2020, a space in the nation’s capital dedicated to the past, present and future of journalism will close. While the Newseum has remained a destination for… more ›

• A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges

  January 2, 2020

  Asking readers to pay has become the go-to answer in digital news. In 2020, I think we’ll start to discover one constraint of that model. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/a-constraint-of-the-reader-revenue-model-emerges/ more ›

• From Prenda to Snowden to SpaceX: Tech trends that shaped the 2010s

  January 1, 2020

  It’s been quite a decade. Tech surfed into the 2010s upon a huge wave of optimism and connection (Facebook!) but eventually wiped out on the shoals of cynicism and tribalism… more ›