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0 pointsCodeWriter232y ago0 comments

They still have a couple of decent writers. But CN’s business model is buy publications with lots of eyeballs and increase the revenue per eyeball while decreasing the total number of eyeballs per publication but firm-wide across all properties eyeballs are on an upward trajectory. It’ll last as long as it does then there will be nothing but crap. Like SciFi turning into the wrestling channel at scale.

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itsoktocry2y ago

>But CN’s business model is buy publications with lots of eyeballs and increase the revenue per eyeball while decreasing the total number of eyeballs per publication but firm-wide across all properties eyeballs are on an upward trajectory

According to Wikipedia, their last acquisition was Pitchfork in 2015. That's almost 10 years ago. Prior to that, the last popular property appears to be Ars in 2008 and reddit, in 2006. They don't actually seem to be buying many properties...

CodeWriter23OP2y ago

> It’ll last as long as it does then there will be nothing but crap.

Perhaps that is closer than we think

Red_Leaves_Flyy2y ago

Syfy makes it airs the occasionally great original content. Everything else, is and has been, junk filler on repeat for over two decades.

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