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The newspapers have missed the opportunity to monetize for themselves and now need to roll out everything anew. As they should, today's google amp links are mu
by yawaworht1978 5y ago
The newspapers have missed the opportunity to monetize for themselves and now need to roll out everything anew.
As they should, today's google amp links are much worse content wise than daily mail articles, and that's one hell of a low bar.
- ghaff 5y ago>The newspapers have missed the opportunity to monetize for themselves What do you think that opportunity was for most even decent-size city newspapers? A few national/international brands have done OK but that's because the NYT, say, has subscribers all over the world. Even something like the San Francisco Chronicle never had that same opportunity. Maybe if everyone had pushed back harder on making content available for free and paywalls were more the norm in the early days of the newspapers going online. But I sort of doubt that would really have worked.
- yawaworht1978 5y agoIt's hard to tell, even in hindsight. Maybe something like free access without ads to paper subscribers. I just tried to run a search query with explicit "without google" and am returned the full spectrum of google marketing tools:-)
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThey could have formed a joint venture to build a Craigslist killer, go after MLS listings, any number of things that would enhance their traditional business with desirable services. Instead they just stood by and watched the world change.