Thought this thread was about Kotaku asking the question of if anyone liked reading Stephen King's IT.
Yes, I can't wait to go home and buy dinner tonight in exchange for my jasonschreier.com clicks.
So I'm not coming at this thread with venom or malice, just a genuine curiosity
Exactly.
So I'm not coming at this thread with venom or malice, just a genuine curiosity from a singular person's personal perspective...
But does anyone actually ENJOY & LIKE Kotaku? I've found myself taking them off my whitelisted websites as they've (in my opinion) slowly devolved into ja-baiting clicks more often compared to deep-dive articles, breaking stories presented with equal time/attention given to both sides of a story and reviews that are actually thoughtful. I feel like they are shifting gears towards hate-clicks/clickbait and I don't actually enjoy visiting much anymore. Curious what the temperature of the room is in here...
(In before, "well then don't visit, you're obviously not their target audience.")
I don't expect you to have in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of journalism, but you need to understand that "clicks" do not equate to revenue. I get a salary and benefits from a company with a business department that sells ads, posts deals, and puts together other revenue generators (that are thankfully kept very far away from the editorial team) in order to ensure that we get paid on time.I understand it's not much of a site atm, but you've got an audience big enough to go just about anywhere and be fine, no?
I'm not familiar with Univision's structure but curious if you've ever considered flying solo in the past? They seem flexible with outside work with your book, but considering your stature and "tenure" at the company, it would be cool to see you negotiate points of Kotaku itself, or a percentage of click revenue itself for your work.
I don't expect you to have in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of journalism, but you need to understand that "clicks" do not equate to revenue. I get a salary and benefits from a company with a business department that sells ads, posts deals, and puts together other revenue generators (that are thankfully kept very far away from the editorial team) in order to ensure that we get paid on time.
This thread really sucks and despite your sudden pivot to sucking up to me, I have no patience for your generic disparagement of my colleagues' hard work. You want to criticize an article or offer specific feedback, be my guest. You want to try to get a bunch of people to dogpile on Kotaku, GamerGate-style, based on absolutely nothing but gut feelings, vague nonsense about "clickbait," and a threat to put us on your ad blocker? Piss off.