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It’s too bad that they never transitioned into newer forms of media to capture their demographic as the internet took hold. I remember them as a teen in the 90
by godzillabrennus 7y ago
It’s too bad that they never transitioned into newer forms of media to capture their demographic as the internet took hold.
I remember them as a teen in the 90’s and they still had a captive audience in my peers and I. After the mobile computing revolution had taken hold I don’t think teens even were aware they existed.
- bsder 7y agoHas any once-successful print media actually pivoted and been equally as successful? I can't actually think of one.
- vmlinuz 7y agoThe Onion, maybe?
- tokai 7y agoAll the large scientific publishers have won on the shift from print to digital.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoNYT has done quite well for itself. And you have one of their former developers (Mike Bostock) for a number of the most popular web libraries over the past 8-10 years or so.
- bsder 7y agoHas it? Is it pulling in the same money as when it was a print juggernaut? This seems to suggest "not really": https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NYT/new-york-times/revenue https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NYT/new-york-times...
- 52-6F-62 7y agoI'd say yes. That chart suggested that the times revenue has seen YOY increases every year since 2016. Also, it really depends on your definition of success. https://www.statista.com/chart/3755/digital-subscribers-of-the-new-york-times/ https://www.statista.com/chart/3755/digital-subscribers-of-t... (of course, take this as you will: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/business/media/new-york-times-earnings-digital-subscriptions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/business/media/new-york-t...)