The Battle for the Homepage: How Publishers Are Using Community to Win Back Control in the Age of Zero-Click
For years, publishers have been told that the homepage is dead. Search and social were supposed to be the engines of discovery, reliable pipelines of readers arriving from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and whatever new platform happened to dominate that month.
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2019 in review
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How publishers are using Snapchat
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