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The delivery company has been named the winner of the latest edition of The Works thanks to strong ad performance in a difficult digital environment.

This week we hear from Lauren Kleinman and Lee Joselowitz, co-founders of The Quality Edit. The Quality Edit was founded in 2021 when Lauren, Lee and their co-founder Scott Silver felt there was no digital publisher providing high-quality recommendations around fashion, travel, and beauty products, so they decided to launch their own. The Quality Edit is bootstrapped, profitable, and with 300k UVMs per month, this small but mighty platform has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the media landscape.

Cooking sims don’t need to stimulate every sense to be meaningful

On this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from The Economist's Executive Vice President of Marketing Nada Arnot. Marketing isn't something we talk about a lot on the podcast, but as Arnot makes clear it's an integral part of media companies' ability to address, convert and retain audiences.

Big Tech companies like Google wield vast amounts of power in their respective fields. But by casting themselves as underdogs against monolithic but amorphous ‘Big Tech’, news organisations are seemingly exculpated from any fault of their own.On ...

From quick superhero battles to longform narrative campaigns, there’s a deckbuilding game for everyone

Fan demakes are a popular genre on platforms like itch.io. They distil the essence of a beloved IP and marry it to the limitations of older platforms to create something entirely new.

On this week's episode we hear from Jane Ferguson, an Irish-British journalist covering war, politics and US foreign policy. She is currently a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, contributor to The New Yorker, and a professor of journalism at Princeton University, as well as the inaugural winner of the Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism.

Game development is, in some ways, more accessible than ever. Between the ease-of-use of engines like RPG Maker to the release of titles like Game Builder Garage that gamify the act of development itself, there are countless ways into game development that do not require previous experience of coding or design.

Creators are looking to diversify their revenue streams and, just as media companies do, occasionally seek the aid of VC funding to do so. But with VC funding comes a variety of pitfalls, as our industry has learned all too well. Charlotte Henry examines a potential model that can help creators sidestep those pitfalls.