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SimilarWeb Stats: Tier 1 Traffic Tanked in '25
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Everybody knows that web traffic is descending — but exactly where?
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
... and rarely reveals it. Roughly 45K opinion recent pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures…
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
From WebPro News: Romanian software marketplace Tekpon acquired The Next Web (TNW) from the Financial Times, rescuing the tech media brand from closure.
Eric Savitz: Edit, PR, Corporate Comms, and The Journey Continues
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you can name somebody other than Eric Savitz that has more than three decades of experience in across, edit, PR, and corporate content, let us know.
Q & A: Loren Feldman, 21 Hats
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Nobody has more experience understanding small business than Loren Feldman. More than two decades ago, he served at Inc./Fast Company, moved on to the New York Times, then Forbes. Loren then started his own small business called 21 Hats. In this SWMS Q&A, we explore some of what Loren has learned…
Cheat Sheet Lite: MarTech/CX Newsletters
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here are 14 paths for you if you seek newsletters that are updated frequently in martech and consumer experience, or CX. Let's call this a "cheat sheet lite" because there is no author information here. That said, these links will save you time.
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The day is coming that you will not be able to avoid framing the targets in terms of red or blue. So far you've been able to do that. Those days are coming to a close: large swaths of "the audience" are headed in this direction. If you don't believe it, read this from Bloomberg. You will never see…
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Superb reporting from Business Insider on what comes after Google Search. All the experts quizzed. The gist: these technologies and techniques are borderline mythical at this point.
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In the latest installment of Sound Thinking...David Strom, a well-known IT reporter and security expert, discusses the threat of AI tricking security systems and luring them to catastrophe. What will that mean to editors? When will it happen? It's not an if, it's a when.
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Good vision here from Jay Lauf. Interestingly, Jay suggests that B2B publishing will become a service business to B2B pros, providing value directly to individuals and organizations. Static content is dying very quickly. This is the point of the analysis from this great media organization.
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
America can't read anymore. The good news: advertisers can advertise against different kinds of emotion in the copy. So even if the numbers of readers drop, there are more ways to attract ads. So perhaps the bad news will get cancelled out by the good. Sam Whitmore and David Strom discuss.
Cheat Sheet: DC-Based Financial Regulation Targets
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If your clients are in the space of new finance tools/apps -- and if they target the retirement space -- they will need to conquer D.C. editors before they can they make the big bucks. Here's who covers those pathways. DeepSeek provided the sidebar; Google Veo did the video. The Trump…
Q&A: Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ben Wodecki is a veteran UK-based journalist who now finds himself in serving a B-to-B audience based largely in the U.S. Ben spent some time recently discussing the latest version of SDxCentral, purchased earlier this year
Cheat Sheet: Leadership Podcasts (Updated)
September 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's a cheat sheet with 10 podcasts that offer advice to aspiring leaders. Yes on the contact info. No audience sizes, however -- it's pretty much impossible to obtain that. Most of the podcasters have books and seminars to sell. You'll find HBR in there... the only publication in the list. This…
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Can you imagine not needing to be a human being to be a superstar? You may remember Max Headroom. There's plenty of examples of technology personas, but AI is a different world altogether. Is there a tech media angle to this item? Not really, but here she is -- Xania.
Cheat Sheet: Podcasts for Startups (Updated)
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Which podcasts do entrepreneurs really listen to? The entrepreneurs that have the big startup ideas? This cheat sheet is where one starts. Don't be fooled by the TechCrunch Startup News "podcast," because all it is is an AI voice-synthesized audio file of a story that ran as a tech article -- it's…
Cheat Sheet: CNBC Producers
September 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A kind and generous subscriber shared the data on the latest producers on CNBC, the shows that they produce, and the times that the show is aired. This is what the Media Survey family is all about. The sidebars are from Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek. Enjoy, and good luck.…
Cheat Sheet: Tier 1 F2F Event Contacts (Updated)
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here’s a cheat sheet on whom to approach and pitch in selected Tier 1 event operations, updated from the Jan. 2024 version. Unlike reporters, event influencers have no content to review.
Bloomberg TV's Star Producers
September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You're not going to get on Bloomberg TV without impressing either one or both of these women, so make sure you read up.
Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1's Thought Leadership...
August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is a must-read article about both Business Insider and Wired being tricked by a phony freelance reporter writing phony stories. If BI and Wired can be fooled, everybody can be fooled.