This Thursday, Oct. 31, join me for The Rebooting’s latest online forum. I’ll be joined by BlueConic’s Patrick Crane and Actable’s Craig Schinn to discuss how publishers can take control of their first-party data. Some of the topics we will discuss: * Why getting to start is
Hangovers from the scale era
A conversation with Defector COO Jasper Wang
Specialists need to adapt
The winners of mass media's decline
Finding equilibrium on the institution-individual continuum
Lessons learned and what's next
Shifting media incentives
From denial to productization
A surprising amount of optimism mixed with the reality of a more-with less era
In today’s issue: * A conversation with Front Office Sports CEO Adam White about the path from a Squarespace built when he was a college student to building a $10 million publishing business * Notes on a coming backlash to legalized sports gambling, Substack’s moat, the latest version of The
The antitrust case against Google is a classic case of fighting the last war
Finding the wheat among the chaff
Plus: Why did Google come to dominate ad tech?
Plus: Google on trial
Thanks for the various pizza recommendations. I’m going to be contrarian and say I had better pizza in Palermo than in Naples. As a side note, Palermo is an underrated place to visit and Italy might be far behind the U.S. in GDP per capita but is far
