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Many years ago I learned that the size of the specialty publication industry was just enormous. I don't know if that's still true, but the existence of "Valve M
by rootbear 7y ago
Many years ago I learned that the size of the specialty publication industry was just enormous. I don't know if that's still true, but the existence of "Valve Magazine" isn't too surprising to me. We had fun at work thinking up fake industrial specialty pubs, such as "Door Knob Monthly" and "Parking Meter Trends".
- usrusr 7y agoThat's how ad targeting was done before Google and Facebook. Now that you can buy valve buyer eyeballs while they are browsing cat pictures all those multitudes of specialisation are prone to do extinct. (and to GP: perhaps one day we might discover the remains of ancient Roman Valve Magazine!)
- notfromhere 7y agoSpecialty industry magazines are way better targeting than google. Their value also shot up post-GDPR as publishers realized how valuable their subscriber lists were to vendors.
- rsynnott 7y agoFake? https://www.doorindustryjournal.co.uk/ https://www.doorindustryjournal.co.uk/
- jakedata 7y agoThe _continued_ existence of "Valve Magazine" is slightly more so.
- Jaruzel 7y agoI'm still holding out for Walrus Polishers Monthly, tbh.
- peter303 7y agoThere is a whole genre of of industrial musical shows consisting of composers and actors. They perform at company conventions. In 2018 a collector of industrial musical records made an amusing documentary on the subject called "Bathtubs over Broadway". https://www.bathtubsoverbroadway.com/ https://www.bathtubsoverbroadway.com/
- animal531 7y agoHere in my country the biggest car trading website is called autotrader. For fun someone at my previous job typed in horsetrader and lo and behold, we apparently also had a horse trading site. Niche anything can be pretty surprising.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhere I used to work, for some reason someone was always leaving around logistics trade journals.