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3 weeks ago | 
peoplevsalgorithms.com | Troy Young |Brian Morrissey |Alex Schleifer
POD: Media, narratives, markets with Nick Denton, EP 138. Gawker Media founder Nick Denton joins the show to discuss how narratives and memes run the world, and why it’s better to trade on them than run the old media playbook of the attention economy. Apple | Spotify | other podcast platforms.Watch PvA on YouTube.Out everyFriday AM. Too long… Read in the browser. PVA CONVERSATIONTROY: I know Nick Denton is doing heavy rounds right now, but I really wanted to have him on the podcast.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
wondertools.substack.com | Jeremy Caplan |Troy Young |Brian Morrissey
Snipd is my favorite app for listening to podcasts. It lets me tap my AirPods to save a highlight when I hear something interesting. I sync those highlights to my notes app and occasionally share them online. Best features Tap a button to mark a point of interest; share highlights with friends or export them to a notes app like Notion or Readwise. Why use it? Save moments you want to remember from podcasts youâre learning from. Build a reference library of audio clips to learn from or share.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Troy Young |Brian Morrissey |Alex Schleifer
This week, we discuss conversations vs interviews, why social networking has been replaced by algorithmic content, YouTube’s pivotal role in the emerging media space, and why the Olympics were a great media product.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
peoplevsalgorithms.com | Troy Young
I look for patterns in media, business and culture. My POV is informed by 30 years of leadership in media and advertising businesses. Sometimes it’s nice to read in the browser. Shifting Tides in the Media Business with Axios’s Sara Fischer PvA podcast out now. "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!" - Friedrich NietzscheOur world is only getting less predictable.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Troy Young
I look for patterns in media, business and culture. My POV is informed by 30 years of leadership in media and advertising businesses. Sometimes it’s nice to read in the browser. Shifting Tides in the Media Business with Axios’s Sara Fischer PvA podcast out now. "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!" - Friedrich NietzscheOur world is only getting less predictable.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
peoplevsalgorithms.com | Troy Young
I look for patterns in media, business and culture. My POV is informed by 30 years of leadership in media and advertising businesses. Sometimes it’s nice to read in the browser. More fun on this week’s podcast. Out Thursday, 8am EST. Despite having spent many years of my life attempting to prove the contrary, my new theory is that much of digital media is just structurally imperiled. It has only sustained this long by an endless string of hacks and low cost capital.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Troy Young |Brian Morrissey |Alex Schleifer
This week we talk CES, the ongoing silliness of the Bill Ackman-Business Insider feud, and why news aggregation apps are the obvious solution in search of a (monetizable) problem. Troy Young's People vs Algorithms newsletterBrian Morrissey's The Rebooting newsletterAlex Schleifer's Universal EntitiesFollow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
peoplevsalgorithms.com | Troy Young
I look for patterns in media, business and culture. My POV is informed by 30 years of leadership in media and advertising businesses. Sometimes it’s nice to read in the browser. Listen to the PvA podcast. This week we check in with Gen Z. Find it here. I’ve been thinking about a company I’m involved with. Its a digital media company of sorts. One with stellar performance. There’s something special about it. While its name is not important, many of the principles by which it operates are.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
peoplevsalgorithms.com | Troy Young
I look for patterns in media, business and culture. My POV is informed by 30 years of leadership in media and advertising businesses. Sometimes it’s nice to read in the browser. Ya, I’ve been a bad, bad newsletter person. My summer respite turned into something more protracted. As I ponder the future of this thing, some quick Thursday thoughts for the team. We like NYT puzzles, maybe more than News That Is Fit to Print.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Troy Young |Brian Morrissey |Alex Schleifer
Most of the challenges facing media come down to misaligned incentives. Publishers face a bad set of options to serve the competing interests of advertisers and the audience while keeping the lights on. The horror show of UK news sites is a sign of things to come. Publishers and platforms have long had misaligned incentives, as games studios are belatedly finding out, while companies are struggling to balance the incentives of workers, management and shareholders.
