The worker-owned sports website released an admirably transparent annual report on Thursday. The report showed Defector brought in $3.8 million in its second year and that nearly every dollar came from readers.
“It’s a format that rewards a bit of journalistic intuition, as it’s almost impossible to build podcasts to just fit searches and platform algorithms.”
“Are we moving fast enough for the length of runway we have to lift off? Or do we need to, you know, keep paving and quickly build more runway? That’s the real question.”
In 2022, few pop-culture brands move the needle, so newspaper blue-bloods and recipe sites alike rally around Marvel Cinematic Universe content as their last stand.
Winkie, Luke. "Pageviews, assemble! Why there’s no escaping the Marvel Cinematic Universe online." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Sep. 2022. Web. 1 Apr. 2023.
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