Reaching out to customers. Potential and existing.
There was advertising.
There was sponsoring.
There also was Commercial Brands creating their own media brand, such as (sources: Axios):
- Podcasts: Brands like Blue Apron, Slack, Away, Shopify and Casperhave created their own podcasts to market to consumers directly.
- Magazines: Dollar Shave Club most notably launched MEL Magazine in 2015. Fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has its own magazine (Porter), as does Red Bull (The Red Bulletin Magazine).
- Books: Payments company Strike published its first book last year and has more in the pipeline.
- Media divisions: SoulCycle launched a 20-person media team in 2018. Goldman Sachs has built a robust media division that focuses heavily on podcasts.
Now, Brands buy Media Brands
Robinhood, a trading app (raised $110M in 2017), instead of creating its own brand like seen above, is buying one: MarketSnacks , a newsletter and podcast media brand focused on financial trading. An interesting evolution for the media industry. Imagine, Nissan buying Car and Driver? Yes, I hear you. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, but it’s not Amazon and WaPo is not a straight coverage for Amazon either.
All about transparency.
As written, trust in Media will come back with Privacy and Transparency. As long as you are aware of who is behind a Media, (or political orientation, or depth of expertise…) the content will be educational and useful as long as you accept the profile of the media.
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