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I think adtech companies are at greater risk than publishers. Publishers will move to a subscription model and most of them will be okay. A whole lot of adtech

I think adtech companies are at greater risk than publishers. Publishers will move to a subscription model and most of them will be okay. A whole lot of adtech companies’ entire business model is sleazy at best and outright criminal at worst.

blablabla123 9y ago
Yeah but it's also crazy how many pubs (the word is nice ;)) already had to close or at least merge which others. Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. If subscription is the only solution, I expect more pubs to disappear. Being from Germany, if I had to subscribe to nytimes.com to read articles from there I'd stop reading them probably. Just pretending I would subscribe, I would also have to subscribe to 5 more US Newspapers, 2-3 UK ones and 10-15 German ones. NYT Basic is 1.75 € a week, Washington post 10 $ a month. That would be more than 140 € a month. No way :-) (Oh, I forgot all the commercial tech pubs I read) I hope the publishers come up with a better model.
- mlb_hn 9y ago
  > Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. Reuters and AP are newswire services which is meant to be used by multiple pubs because local pubs don't have reporters all around the world. The local papers' reporters are busy telling you what your local schoolboard is up to and whatnot. But I agree more pubs will likely disappear or be merged into larger media conglomerates, and that leads into issues like Sinclair forcing all their pubs to push certain agendas.