🔗Links etc. 02/01/23
Be your own media: Context Collapse #190
We live in a future where being your own media is incredibly easy and low-friction. We live in an age of TikTok, Instagram, Substack and being able to make your own website in 30 minutes. This is a good thing.
Here’s what’s on my radar:
Peacock now has 20 million+ paying subscribers but is still running at a loss (Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch)
Peacock’s Night Court revival is a massive hit with highest ratings of any new network sitcom in four years (John Koblin / NYT)
“The last thing I heard from my editor is that the magazine is "rethinking their 2023 strategy" and that they need a beat to "sort things out internally," and most forebodingly, that I would know more "soonest."“ (Luke Winkie / On Posting)
A methodology for identifying piracy sites making money with Google ads (Craig Silverman / Digital Investigations)
The economics of MrBeast explained (Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day)
BDG Media shutting down the rebooted Gawker citing changes to internet publishing landscape (Sara Fischer / Axios)
HarperCollins laying off 5% of North American staff (Hillel Italie / AP)
Hubspot laying off 7% of staff and consolidating offices (Aaron Pressman / Boston Globe)
Nvidia AI scientist Jim Fan explains the recent innovations in AI. (Twitter thread)
