Marketing

Baller League’s creator strategy: reach is not the same as fandom

Baller League has something rare in creator economy business circles: a plan that doesn’t end with it becoming a media company. Instead it wants to become a sustainable sports league.  That’s not as obvious as the name suggests. Most creator-led sports properties have ended up caring more about the entertainment wrapper than the sport inside […]

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USA Today Co.’s AI licensing deals drive ‘notable’ revenue in Q1, despite pressure on traffic and programmatic

USA Today Co.’s AI licensing deals helped drive meaningful year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of this year, despite pressure on referral traffic and programmatic advertising. According to the publisher’s latest earnings published Thursday morning, “other” digital revenue — which includes digital content syndication, affiliate, content and AI partnerships, and licensing revenue — grew

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Reddit Reports A 75% Boost In Q1 Ad Revenue As It Reaches For 100 Million Daily US Users

Generative AI has pushed traffic off a cliff across most of the internet, but not on social platforms. Reddit included. Reddit’s global average daily users increased by 17% year over year in Q1 to 126.8 million. In the US, daily users were up 7% YOY to a total of 53.5 million. And Reddit isn’t expecting

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