• VulcanSphere@kbin.social
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    1 年前

    They are good at buying magazines and tech website companies, especially under last CEO.

    Imagine Publishing (in the UK), Purch Group (Tom’s Hardware, Anandtech), NewBay Media (this one is for business-to-business titles), Bauer Media and nextmedia consumer technology titles (in Australia), TI Media (formerly Time Inc. UK/IPC Media) , GoCompare, Dennis Publishing…

    And somehow proceeded to ruin their acquired assets with homogenised websites and SEO-sanitised contents…

    (Certain NewBay Media assets were later resold to another companies, like MCV/Develop (this one was probably for competitive reasons, because owning consumer magazines and business-to-business magazine about video games would run afoul of competition rules).