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                1. More than that, the sales departments don't understand ad tech, bad ad tech, or what makes it bad or good b/c no one explains it to them.
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                Publishers making snowfall-style-tech is sexy. Publishers innovating advertising is not. niemanlab.org/?s=advertising&post_type=post This is a *very* bad thing.
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              Seriously. Someone name for me the last time a pub built a tool to have ads run better? Native doesn't count b/c it is a publishing tool.
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            Some companies are slowly starting to get it b/c they don't have a choice. But seriously...
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          ... If editors and writers had cared about how the business *works* before 2010 we prob could have "saved journalism" long ago.
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        One of the ways I decide where I work is if they are willing to push back on bad ads, though it is incredibly hard now, at least a little.
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      Final note, new media companies shouldn't make Patch's mistake. Start with good sales people. Know you can make money first...
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    & b/f you object over the editorial ethics of that thinking. It worked for BuzzFeed. They started w/how to make $, now do amaz. journalism.


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