The Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model

Major shifts in the way consumers spend their time and money have created a lethal competitive field for news media. Here are some facts and charts about it.
Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication.

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Interactive Behavioral Analytics for Winning in the Digital Economy

If you have read my recent post, you will know that I am interested in product management and data science. These 2 fields combined create a data-driven product development process, which is a powerful approach in a lot of SaaS companies nowadays. Recently, I went to a product meetup in Imgur headquarter in San Francisco, and had a chance to mingle with other product people as well as learn about the trendy product practices.

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