by Max Willens | Nov 30, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Online Marketing, plusresearch
Over the past two years, the media industry has played a crucial role in shaping the norms and expectations around mask-wearing, vaccinations and how employers should incorporate them into their businesses. It has also largely stopped short of requiring its employees...
by Tim Peterson | Nov 15, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Media
The 2021 edition of Complex Networks’ flagship event, ComplexCon, may have epitomized the current new normal for media companies’ events businesses. The mask mandate and mandatory health screening may have been new additions, but the so-called “cultural Super Bowl”...
by Tim Peterson | Nov 11, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Media, mediabriefing, plusbriefing
This week’s Media Briefing recaps the latest earnings reports from four media companies and reviews what they indicate about the current stages of traditional publishers remaking themselves into digital organizations. The modern media businessComplex Networks’ return...
by Max Willens | Oct 19, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Online Marketing, plusresearch
When everybody was chuckling at Ever Given memes this spring, few could have guessed that global supply chain issues would actually become a bigger topic of conversation as the year wore on. But even as the supply chain’s problems have grown into a clear obstacle for...
by Max Willens | Oct 8, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Media
The fifth ComplexCon is still about a month away, but it already looks like it could set new revenue records for Complex Networks, the youth culture publisher which BuzzFeed announced plans to acquire earlier this year. Sales of tickets, which range from $80 to $500...
by Max Willens | Oct 5, 2021 | Coronavirus Fallout, Media, plusresearch
The holiday season is still nearly two months away, but publishers are already expecting a bigger, better haul of ad revenue than they got last year, thanks in part to the return of two emerging revenue streams, according to new Digiday+ Research. In September,...
