When SPACs Attack (256)
This Old Marketing - News Podcast Weekly with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose · Joe Pulizzi & Robert Rose
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Show Notes
The big news of the week was Twitter buying Revue, a Substack competitor that launches Twitter into the subscription business.
What could save or kill the media business? SPACs! Media SPACs are off to a roaring start for 2021, with no end in sight.
Rolling Stone does a Forbes and starts a pay-to-play "culture" council, further destroying the once-great media brand, while Clubhouse becomes a Unicorn and is the big social media craze of the year (so far).
Rants and raves include Robert's rave about a Google Analytics competitor while Joe raves about wallstreetbets taking on Wall Street.
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