Interesting comment! Not entirely sure how relevant or accurate this is, but I thought I would point out that in Feb 2014, Om Malik from Gigaom wrote: > In 200

Interesting comment! Not entirely sure how relevant or accurate this is, but I thought I would point out that in Feb 2014, Om Malik from Gigaom wrote: > In 2008, our company decided that we would not pray at the altar of pageviews and advertising metrics that do nothing but devalue our readers’ time and attention. Instead, we opted to take the road less traveled — subscription revenues. https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/now-that-gigaom-is-all-grown-up-its-time-for-the-next-chapter/ https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/now-that-gigaom-is-all-grown-u... The post described their pivot into another line of business. (I'm not sure how much Gigaom relied on subscription revenue vs. advertising.)