Episode 983 • • 2:08:05 - 2:12:54
983: 3 Belts No Road
Digital Media Layoffs and the Value for Value Model
Reports of massive layoffs at Oath (Verizon), Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice indicate a crisis in the ad-supported digital media industry. The hosts contrast these failing commercial models with their own "value for value" system, which has sustained No Agenda for ten years without advertisers. They criticize journalism schools like Nieman Lab for ignoring listener-supported media in favor of corporate ad-tech discussions.