Media companies just had a miserable month

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style="font-family: 'Courier New',sans-serif;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;padding-top: 10px">Brought to you by <a href="https://www.grow.com/the-hustle?utm_source=hustle&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=nov2" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">Grow</a>… analytics you can actually understand.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END HEADER --></p> <p> <!-- START SHARE ME NOW BRIEF --></p> <tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>28 days later: It’s been a rough month for media</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">November’s been a <a href="https://digiday.com/media/pivot-reality-digital-media/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=organic_digidayfeed&utm_medium=social" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">wild ride in the world of publishing</a>, with seemingly no brand spared from the wrath of fickle readers and falling ad revenue. </p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Programmatic advertising just ain’t what it used to be. And with an increasing cut of digital ad dollars going to platforms like Google and Facebook, if there’s one thing to take from the past few weeks, it’s that “too big to fail” doesn’t apply.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>To recap the big media shakeups in the past month:</strong></h4> <ul style="margin: 0;padding-bottom: 14px;padding-left: 24px"> <li style="line-height: 120%;padding: 4px 0"><strong>Conde Nast is out of Vogue</strong>: the old-guard of glossy mags plans to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/business/media/conde-nast-teen-vogue.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">shut down its print edition of <em>Teen Vogue</em></a> and reduce the print frequency of its other properties including <em>GQ, Glamour, </em>and <em>Bon Appetit.</em></li> <li style="line-height: 120%;padding: 4px 0"><strong>Mashable sells for ⅕ its previous year’s valuation</strong>: Valued at $250m after their funding round last March, the tech news site sold for a mere $50m, and plans to post a loss in 2017.</li> <li style="line-height: 120%;padding: 4px 0"><strong>Oath pledges to lay off 500+</strong>: The digital Frankenstein cobbled together from Yahoo, AOL, and HuffPo’s brands announced <a href="http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/verizon-oath-layoffs-500-jobs-aol-yahoo-staff-1202617353/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">major layoffs</a> just months after AOL’s CEO announced its rebrand with the battle cry: “<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeTheOath?src=hash" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">#TakeTheOath</a>. Summer 2017.”</li> <li style="line-height: 120%;padding: 4px 0"><em><strong>Vice</strong></em><strong> and </strong><em><strong>Buzzfeed</strong></em><strong> shoot for the moon… and miss:</strong> <em>BuzzFeed</em> is expected to miss its $350m annual revenue target by as much as 20%, while <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-set-to-miss-revenue-target-signaling-turbulence-in-media-1510861771?mg=prod/accounts-wsj" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><em>WSJ</em> reports</a> that <em>Vice</em> will likely miss its revenue goals by nearly $800m.</li> </ul> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Hold your horses, </strong><em><strong>Vice</strong></em><strong> and </strong><em><strong>Buzzfeed</strong></em><strong> are still crushing it</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">We’re not saying it’s the digital media end times. Buzzfeed and Vice are still doing well over a billion in revenue combined, and even the <em>New York Times </em>has boosted their <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-times-record-subscriptions_us_5979e57fe4b02a4ebb734f5f" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">digital subscriptions</a> thanks to strategic partnerships with companies like Spotify.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">But the point is no one’s immune to the trends — and even tastemakers like <em>Buzzfeed</em> and <em>Vice</em> have to keep their eyes on the horizon, lest they too go the way of the glossy: once “en vogue,” no longer in business.</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START SHARING --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace;font-size: 26px;line-height: 120%;padding: 15px 0;text-align: center" align="center">ZING</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table style="text-align: center;width: 100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hustlecon/posts/1952029981723529" style="color: #ed4d1f;padding: 0 8px;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/share_fb-6.jpg" /></a></td> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&summary=A+miserable+month+for+digital+media+%E2%80%94+Vice+%26+BuzzFeed+the+latest+on+the+chopping+block&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2Frough-month-for-media%3Futm_campaign%3D11%252F21%2B-%2BMedia%26utm_content%3Drough-month-for-media%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Ddaily" style="color: #ed4d1f;padding: 0 8px;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" src="http://blog.doral360.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/share_li-5.jpg" /></a></td> <td style="padding: 5px 0;text-align: center" align="center"><a 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#dddddd;border-bottom-style: solid;border-bottom-width: 1px;height: 30px"> </td> </tr> <p><!-- END SHARE ME NOW BRIEF --></p> <p> <!-- START BRIEF --></p> <tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>Tencent just joined the prestigious tech giant $500B club</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Tencent is the first Asian company ever to cross a <a href="https://www.axios.com/fb-and-tencent-2511050380.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">$500B</a> valuation, despite being relatively unknown in the Western hemisphere.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">But, a little nudge was all it took: yesterday their shares jumped 4.1% on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, bumping their valuation to about $510B and into the circles of tech royalty.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Movin’ on up</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Tencent went public back in 2004, but remained quiet for years with fairly tepid stock, until around 2011 when they developed mobile chat app WeChat.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Initially created to rival Facebook-owned WhatsApp, WeChat is now a jack-of-all-trades, allowing their 980m monthly Chinese users (just behind Facebook Messenger’s 1.2B <em>global</em> users) to read the news, hail a cab, and make online payments in-app.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">And they’ve had a breakout year: Tencent’s stock’s skyrocketed <a href="https://qz.com/1133649/chinas-tencent-cracked-a-500-billion-valuation-just-four-months-after-amazon/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">120%</a> since the start of 2017, and they recently reported quarterly revenues of $9.8B — up 61% from 2016, due in large part to their smash hit, mobile game <em>Honour of Kings.</em></p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Spearheading a new age</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">While the 500 club’s fearless market cap leader, Apple (valued at $872B), cemented its place back in <a href="https://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/02/28/apple-market-cap-poised-to-crack-500-billion/" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">2012</a>, Tencent joins a pretty legendary class of 2017 inductees: Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, and Microsoft all passed the $500B mark this year. </p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Meanwhile, China’s Alibaba Group is knocking on the door with a market cap just under <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/alibaba-invests-2-point-9-billion-in-chinas-sun-art-retail-group.html" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">$480m</a> — just trying to figure out the club’s secret handshake.</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="padding: 10px 0"> <table class="emailshare" style="border-spacing: 0;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background: #000000;border: 2px solid #000000;height: 21px;padding: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;width: 21px" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle"><span style="float: none;text-align: center"><a href="https://thehustle.co/tencent-500b-valuation?utm_campaign=11%2F21+-+Media&utm_content=tencent-500b-valuation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: 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<tr id="news1"> <td> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>Jack’s grocery games: Alibaba drops almost $3B on Chinese “hypermart”</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">When Amazon makes a move, you better believe Alibaba is watching — and their $14B acquisition of Whole Foods this summer is no exception.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Ma and The Gang continue their supermarket sweep, purchasing <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/alibaba-takes-a-29-billion-stake-in-chinas-biggest-grocer-2017-11?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=referral" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">36% of Sun Art Retail Group</a>, a grocer that controls 400 “hypermarts” across the country — and an 8.2% stake in the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-19/alibaba-led-group-agrees-to-buy-sun-art-stake-for-2-9-billion" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">$1.5T Chinese grocery space</a>.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>“It’s not a store, it’s a </strong><em><strong>hypermart</strong></em><strong>”</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">You know, the kind of establishment you could live in, and no one would notice. We’re talking about brick-and-mortar megastores like Walmart, that hawk everything from baby carrots to car tires under the same roof.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Sun Art is one of the few retail chains with a nationwide presence in China’s highly fragmented grocery market market (yes, a market of markets), and they’ve been making grabs in a number of grocery and retail companies in hopes of unifying the space.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Anything Jeff can do, Jack can do better</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">So sure, a $2.9B deal isn’t as sexy as a $14B takeover… but this is about strategy, not showmanship. </p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Revenue from Alibaba’s new retail partnerships have quintupled in the last quarter, and they’ve been droppin’ billions on grocers, malls, and department stores <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-19/alibaba-led-group-agrees-to-buy-sun-art-stake-for-2-9-billion" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">since 2014</a> — years before Bezos got into the organic hummus game.</p> </td> </tr> <p><!-- START LINK --></p> <tr> <td id="link" style="padding: 10px 0"> <table class="emailshare" style="border-spacing: 0;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background: #000000;border: 2px solid #000000;height: 21px;padding: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;width: 21px" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle"><span style="float: none;text-align: center"><a href="https://thehustle.co/alibaba-hypermarts?utm_campaign=11%2F21+-+Media&utm_content=alibaba-hypermarts&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none"><img decoding="async" 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style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><em><strong>Hellooo</strong></em><strong> mood-lit boardrooms: SoulCycle co-founder is WeWork’s new brand officer</strong></h2> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">SoulCycle co-founder Julie Rice just fired up that motivational dance mix, and she’s spinnin’ on over to WeWork as their <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40497553/soulcycles-julie-rice-is-going-to-whip-wework-into-shape" style="color: #ed4d1f;text-decoration: none">chief brand officer</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">After leaving SoulCycle in 2016, Rice will focus on promoting community at the office-leasing powerhouse, an initiative she’s been super effective at in the past.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>Sounds like a match made in heaven</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">SoulCycle lives and dies by the connection they have with their members — a philosophy that Rice helped build using things like limited edition merch, inspirational instructors, and locker rooms with amenities straight out of a 5-star hotel. </p> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">Now self-proclaimed corporate culture guru WeWork is looking for some of that sweat and soul to rub off on them.</p> <h4 style="font-size: 18px;font-weight: bold;margin-bottom: 8px;margin-top: 16px"><strong>This is a big get for WeWork</strong></h4> <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 12px">WeWork made some big moves this year in hopes of evolving past their signature shared-coworking spaces, recently 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This week, we caught up with Mike Merrill, a man who sold shares of himself to investors and let them control his life.</p> </td> </tr> <tr id="niches"> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" style="padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px"> <h2 style="font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 120%;margin-bottom: 16px;margin-top: 36px"><strong>The man who sold shares of himself</strong></h2> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 120%;margin: 0;padding-bottom: 16px">Back in 2008, 30-year-old Mike Merrill was at a career crossroads. 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