Brian Morrissey

Simulations

People don't mind the artificial

Supporting news

We kicked off Cannes with a terrific dinner last night in Grasse, in the hills above Cannes, with our partners at Permutive. We had a lot of great conversation about the state of publisher advertising businesses. The general consensus: Good Q1, less good Q2, cautious optimism for the back half

No beating the market

Welcome to my dispatches from Cannes. All week, I’ll be sharing my impressions and conversations. If you’re in Cannes, check out some events The Rebooting is doing throughout the week. Also, I have a couple spots open for a cocktail party on Wednesday from 5-7pm. Send me a

The war on friction

"People want less pain"

Journalism's 'warrior priests'

A conversation with Semafor's Ben Smith

Hiring: Business operations lead

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New realities of publishing

Publishing needs a come to Jesus

Hard choices

Changs sucks

The Rebooting at Cannes Lions

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Publishers capitulate to AI

Negotiating terms of surrender

Tempered optimism

The Rebooting surveyed 99 publishers to find the state of their ad businesses

Vertical search

Hello from Soho Farmhouse, which has to be the nicest of the many Soho House properties. My hope is to hold a version of the New Growth Agenda here. Today, I'm looking at the coming fragmentation of search after a long, unnatural period of domination. Discover what’s

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The state of publisher ad revenue

The Rebooting partnered with Permutive, the audience platform used by publishers to increase their revenue, to survey The Rebooting's audience of publishing executives in order to understand the health of their ad businesses amid marketplace turbulence. The findings in this report are based off of 99 publishing executives

Google zero

Depth over breadth

Winners of the AI era

Publishers well-positioned for what's to come

Dignified decline

Old publishing brands never die