Morning Brew's creator focus

CEO Austin Rief sees opportunity to build new brands around personalities

Volatility and vulnerability

Economic downturns affect everyone, but some more than others

The pivot to privacy

Permutive's Joe Root sees digital advertising becoming less adversarial

Primary-engagement monetization

Niche media requires new ad products

The future of Forbes

Forbes COO Jessica Sibley on "the brand that stands for success"

Arbitrage media

Glamour and profits often don't come together

Video

Why The Dispatch is leaving Substack

The conservative newsletter company is striking out on its own

RIP good times

All signs point to the end of boom times

Publishing as a sales tool

CB Insights has 800,000 subscribers to its email newsletter but isn't interested in selling ads

Signaling premium

Many of the ways publishers showed they're "premium" are going away

Human ad products

Primary-engagement media

Rethinking paywalls

Subscriptions aren't a business model