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16 published records
“The only thing that I think could lower it is – you raised an interesting point – is this a strategically good idea for Facebook like should they be focusing so hard on news and not just what you would discover that already lives on Facebook.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“There were times back then, I remember some, I believe, I don’t know if they were public or not at this point, but there were big questions about whether they could translate their success into mobile apps and into mobile in general.”
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- Not verified from transcript
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We’ve been experimenting with that, too. It’s totally changed the way we think about video.”
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- Not verified from transcript
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think if that had been like a runaway hit, then it shouldn’t have been an A. I don’t know.”
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- Not verified from transcript
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Exactly. And I think Instant Articles is one of the best examples of that mentality shifting for publishers that are a little more progressive.”
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- Not verified from transcript
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Certainly there is a core set of your readers who will always do that, but so much anymore the front door or, yes, the front door of your website is not your homepage, it’s an article that somebody comes into and when we think about the design of the site, we think about that, you know, this is really the place that people are coming to.”
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- Not verified from transcript
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The article is really good. And then the device, I listen to all my podcasts and audio books on it now when I’m driving, when I’m walking.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I mean they’re viewed as like this arbiter of the truth and there’s this pure clean algorithm that decides what you look at. And I think that trust that they have instilled in people is powerful.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“In thinking about Instant Articles, some of the bigger publishers that have this sort of a trained behavior of a whole city going to their website every morning, much like they used to read their paper at their dining room table every morning and they worry about doing something like this because it untrains that habitual behavior of going to the site.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“As a consumer and a reader, I’m much more of a fan of Facebook and Instant Articles because you get this experience where I’m in a native experience, it’s already downloaded, all the content from the article, and I just go right into it.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“It’s probably one of my most used apps and devices. I use both the app and the device.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I don’t know which was the side gig and which was the permanent gig, but he was one of the first people working on Nest, and nobody knew what Nest was at this point.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I believe the opening line of his article where he talks about this is that Facebook is like a big dog in the park that is galloping at you and you don't know if it wants to play with you or eat you.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We're talking before we started about old web publishers, talking to The Philadelphia Inquirer… I worked at The Wall Street Journal back in the day and I mean, the cost structure at the Journal, we spend a billion dollars every year on everything putting out the paper and creating a website and all this, and it was all about creating that relationship with the reader.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Then, I think we’re probably fine. Welcome back to Episode 13 of Acquired, the show where we talk about technology acquisitions that actually went well.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Actually I don’t know what mark it will be. But he has a great theory about okay, I can be a one-man independent publisher because I have this very sustainable business model where people pay me directly and I know that I’m not a destination site so I need to run extremely lean because I only have this very specific business model that allows me to do that.”
- Publisher
- Acquired