{"id":7227,"date":"2017-11-20T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:29:18","slug":"linked-theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/linked-theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;There\u2019s a Digital Media Crash. But No One Will Say It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2408,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/talkingpointsmemo.com\\\/edblog\\\/theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250807164849\\\/https:\\\/\\\/talkingpointsmemo.com\\\/edblog\\\/theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:59:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 04:19:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 04:19:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Talking Points Memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>We had our 30 publications and 25 chairs. The platform monopolies came along and took 10 chairs for themselves. Now it\u2019s 30 publications fighting over 15 chairs. But wait, how can 30 publications compete for 15 chairs? That means 15 have no place to sit? Well, the hidden part is that a lot of them are surviving on on-going infusions of venture capital. Once that disappears, it\u2019s something like a crash. Because everyone really needs a seat. And there\u2019s more! Maybe 5 of those chairs weren\u2019t advertising at all. They were on-going investment too. So really there\u2019s 30 publications competing for 10 chairs. Or maybe it\u2019s 7.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be clear, I\u2019m taking these precise numbers \u2013 10, 30, 7 \u2013 as broad guesses. But the general picture is painfully accurate. And as you can see, the real trap door is the withdrawal of on-going re-investment which has created what amounts to a phantom revenue stream. Problems #1 and #2 are either chronic or relatively slowly growing. Problem #3 is rapid and possibly total.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like I said, it\u2019s a crash. It\u2019s largely because scale hasn\u2019t worked in most cases. But it\u2019s definitely a crash. Just no one\u2019s willing to say so yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We have ourselves to blame. No one wants to pay for journalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Talking Points Memo: We had our 30 publications and 25 chairs. The platform monopolies came along and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-11-20T16:29:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"1fd26363-4f4b-4b2d-ae92-26a43929bc1f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-11-20T16:29:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AH9JjY09LSy2ukiakOSm8Hw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Sz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5059,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/linked-welcome-to-the-block-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":7227,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Welcome to the Block Party&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Awl: The central philosophical dispute over ad-blocking goes something like this: Publishers have no right to force readers to be exposed to certain kinds of ads or allow numerous third parties to collect their information without a prior agreement; readers have no right to read or view content\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8481,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/03\/25\/linked-the-mess-at-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":7227,"position":1},"title":"Linked: The Mess at Medium","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Via The Verge:\u00a0 Worse, the data suggested that Medium\u2019s original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. 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