A talented staff, good ideas, and some forward-thinking technology couldn’t overcome a muddled editorial vision — and the realities of how news sites make money in 2020.
“I think the hard part for something like Esquire or Harper’s Bazaar in digital — even to some extent Vogue — is that you get into the scale game. Digital demands greater scale. I just don’t know how many men are trying to figure out if corduroy is back in fashion.”
“The restructuring we are undertaking will reduce our costs and improve our operating model so we can thrive and control our own destiny, without ever needing to raise funding again.”
That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.
“In the West, Cracked, BuzzFeed, and Mashable had really picked up steam. We couldn’t relate to the contents; we didn’t get the jokes. So we decided to create content for people like us.”
Schmidt, Christine. "Expanding post-Y Combinator, OMGDigital wants to win the African millennial media market." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 14 Jul. 2017. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2017, Jul. 14). Expanding post-Y Combinator, OMGDigital wants to win the African millennial media market. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/expanding-post-y-combinator-omgdigital-wants-to-win-the-african-millennial-media-market/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Expanding post-Y Combinator, OMGDigital wants to win the African millennial media market." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 14, 2017. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/expanding-post-y-combinator-omgdigital-wants-to-win-the-african-millennial-media-market/.
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