CNN’s team projected that it would reach 30 million paying subscribers for CNN+

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CNN’s team projected that it would reach 30 million paying subscribers for CNN+ [Axios]

That’s three times the current subscriber base for The New York Times. Yeah right!

How a former Cosmo editor built Australia’s largest women-focused media company [Simon Owens]

Mia Freedman started Mamamia as a one-person blog and bootstrapped it into a multi-media outlet that reaches 7 million people.

The rise of Bella Poarch [Rolling Stone]

A profile of one of the few social media stars to cross over into genuine A-list stardom.

An industry-wide slowdown in subscription growth [Simon Owens]

It’s not just Netflix that’s stalling out; lots of publishers are struggling to maintain their early subscriber growth numbers.

Most NFT buyers are losing money when they try to resell them [Digiday]

These NFT gimmicks are already starting to feel old. The vast majority of publishers are not going to see significant revenue from this kind of stuff.