Ben Collins
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You should read my LinkedIn post about this.
It's just like it really is.
We just we just carry more, you know, emotional labor.
So when we took it over, it was making like...
Well under $2 million a year on exclusively, almost exclusively, Chumbox advertising.
So Chumbox advertising is this stuff at the bottom of the screen that is like, you know, it's like put an onion in your sock and it'll cure your diabetes or something.
All that bullshit that has existed for 20 years now on the internet that you hate, you only click on it by accident.
That was the whole thing.
So when we took it over that we just turned it off and we decided within three months we would become subscription forward.
We would still do ads, but they would be more bespoke and they would work with people.
And we started a copy agency as well.
But mostly it's a subscription forward thing with the newspaper.
We have 80,000 subscribers.
We're on sale, by the way.
$75 for a year of the onion.