Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Really old-timers will remember BuzzFeed not selling to Disney in 2014 for ~ $700 million. It’s valued at $140 million today. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Old-timers will remember Vice not selling to Disney in 2016, when Shane Smith wanted > $5 billion for it. If Vice got 20% of that today people would be impressed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

As @sarafischer notes, a long-in-the-works deal to sell Vice Media to a Greek/Saudi outfit (yep!) has yet to happen. BuzzFeed’s circling-the-drain stock performance doesn’t help any digital media biz trying to sell. https://t.co/VPIO6mZJrY — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac We are old https://t.co/jSnVtoUc4T — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Sometimes Twitter tells you there’s a great game and you should turn it on. This is not one of those times. https://t.co/vIIWwE2pWn — PolitiTweet.org

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Stern is/was a big deal at Apple. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markgurman: Apple has started seeding its headset to a small group of third-party developers to begin working on apps for the device an… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve watched this clip a half-dozen times in the last hour. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@davidcho Totally fine with me. As long as they keep serving me this stuff (oh and a bunch of comedy/standup plus sopranos and west wing clips) — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidcho Really fucking good right now. Getting (what appear to be) on the ground updates from battles in Ukraine and Mexico, great cooking videos, random soccer clips, attractive people who I think want me to find their onlyfans. — PolitiTweet.org

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Since Twitter is now a safe space for conspiracy theories (ie THE TRUTH): My TikTok consumption has gone way up since Elon bought Twitter. China owns TikTok. Elon depends on China. Obviously China pushed Elon to tank Twitter to boost TikTok. https://t.co/H0bXYOhUiS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arctictony: New York's hottest club is the zoom call with the lawyers for the Twitter class action lawsuit. https://t.co/roxljn7MRO — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClaraJeffery @AnthonyQuintano @JamesSurowiecki @goldman @paulg Yup. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fredgrenier12 @NeilRetail @benedictevans @stratechery Unless Netflix decides to promote this, no one? If I didn’t know to search for this I would never see it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki A thing you can more accurately measure from your feed is volume and diversity of organic posts. The fact that my TL is now dominated by you, @goldman, @ClaraJeffery + @paulg bc most people I’ve followed have greatly reduced their presence, is much more telling and concerning. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki But yes he has obviously scared away a big part of his ad base, and his plans to replace ad dollars with sub dollars seems very flawed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki More the point: Facebook’s ad business is dominated by small advertisers selling weird stuff and that’s a giant business. It’s very hard to assess this stuff by extrapolating from your own feed. You’d need to see the actual deals. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki I have a bunch of crap but also lots of blue chips: google, State Farm, various streamers and studios promoting their stuff (including that movie - which in the old days would be promoted on network tv). — PolitiTweet.org

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The best-case scenario for TV is that it somehow emulates the music business, which looked to be in permanent decline for a decade and then bounced back. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maxstrasser: Such a brilliant piece. On the limitations of mainstream activism, on the power of mutual aid, on how right-wing revanchis… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @digitalshields: Some brutal quotes in this post The Creator Economy Was Way Overblown , by @Kantrowitz https://t.co/gno5z8RaJq — PolitiTweet.org

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Also talked to UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, who wants to use Hollywood’s streaming upheaval as a chance to reset deals for Hollywood clients like Kevin Hart. https://t.co/Ym7BbPxtmI https://t.co/0seEWebFM6 — PolitiTweet.org

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For our 2023 kickoff pod I talked to @theinformation’s @waynema, who has new details about Tim Cook’s long-awaited virtual/augmented reality headset. It’s not the gadget Apple thinks everyone will buy this year, but a starting point. https://t.co/Ym7BbPxtmI https://t.co/XRWJ8LEqC2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanmendez I know the contours of the biz, and yes it’s expanding and will continue to do so. But check the filings, it is very low margins. There are also echoes of the fantasy betting land grab a few years ago where they clobbered each other and eventually pulled back. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanmendez But also a low-margin biz where some of the players are already rationalizing their spend — PolitiTweet.org

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“Heading into the fall, we were in the midst of some promising conversations. Then we started hearing serious concerns about the broader economic outlook. And those conversations stalled or ended.” A real bummer. Saw 4 shows - including one last Nov. - and they were all great. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jherskowitz Looks like much of/most of the complaints are about the previous managment. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @broderick: The only thing more depressing than A.I. tools automating basic human creativity is the fact they're doing so as a way to ma… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an excellent discussion. Benefits from the insight of the participants, as well as the grace and perspective that you get when you wait a couple beats to say/write something about something awful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@emmagf @JeffCMays Was very confident that was a @JustinBrannan quote before I read the (well-reported) story. — PolitiTweet.org