In today’s issue: * A conversation with Front Office Sports CEO Adam White about the path from a Squarespace built when he was a college student to building a $10 million publishing business * Notes on a coming backlash to legalized sports gambling, Substack’s moat, the latest version of The
The antitrust case against Google is a classic case of fighting the last war
Finding the wheat among the chaff
Plus: Why did Google come to dominate ad tech?
Plus: Google on trial
Thanks for the various pizza recommendations. I’m going to be contrarian and say I had better pizza in Palermo than in Naples. As a side note, Palermo is an underrated place to visit and Italy might be far behind the U.S. in GDP per capita but is far
Recalbrating for a zero marginal-cost world
The recalibration is underway
Why packaged media is losing ground to individuals.
Publishers need to master the basics of affiliate
Easy on paper, hard in reality
Plus: monopolies and memes
The fragmentation of media is a problem for mass brands
Welcome to August. For the past month, I have been taunted by an out-of-office message by a lucky Danish reader who has been off for all of July for "ferie." Welcome back, Jan. This is real aspiration. Today, I wrote about the future of search based off a
Dance with the one you brung
There's an incentives issue
