Forbes this week began accepting applications for this year’s Cloud 100 List as well as the accompanying Cloud 100 Rising Stars list, which focuses on private cloud startups with less than $25 million in funding.
When editorial layoffs come around, the topic of Substack comes up soon after. “How many reporters will wind up there?” our subscribers often ask.
We came up with 24 cloud targets in this newly updated cheat sheet. Remember, we list our cheat sheets in descending order of reach, based on audience size as reported by Similarweb.
Google exited the market recently but there are still plenty of players selling cloud technology optimized for gamers. Here’s a list of 12 targets who know a thing or two about cloud gaming.
Now in its second month, new cloud publication Silverlinings has established itself. Should you approach? Let’s first address the mission.
Back about 40 years ago, certain individuals in corporate America started buying PCs in volume. They may have been IT people, or line-of-business executives, or consultants… the job title didn’t matter.
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This list of two dozen targets is a roll-up of cloud targets you already know — and perhaps a few you don’t — as well as Google/Alphabet beat reporters in Tier 1. Hope you find it helpful.
Here’s a rare cheat sheet on channel reporters, specifically those who cover cloud and SaaS. Other than CRN’s, the audiences are small. Niche is perhaps a better word.
Here are 13 experts who turn up quoted in the cloud coverage you seek. A few blog or contribute to media brands. We tried including names you might not be familiar with. Who are we missing?
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Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.
The UK-based newsletter company called Trending Now uses AI to scrape what’s trending across 27 areas of B2B. Press Gazette has additional detail. The company employs ten, none of whom are journalists (by traditional definition).
The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.
Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.
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