Digital Trends found a highly profitable niche among tech review sites without relying on Facebook

Digital Trends, which was reportedly in talks to sell to Condé Nast for $120 million, has mostly flown under the radar. But the 10-year-old tech review site has become profitable by honing its Google skills while other publishers chase Facebook and video numbers. “We’ve identified the cycles a reader might go through when they’re out researching a product,” said Ian Bell, one of the founders. The post Digital Trends found a highly profitable niche among tech review sites without relying on Facebook appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

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The 2019 Publishing Hot List: The Print and Digital Media Brands Paving a Way to Profitability

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‘It’s found money’: YouTube stars look for ways to expand to Facebook

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News Corp Answers Big Tech by Exploring its Own News Distribution Site

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Beijing International Book Fair Cites 320,000 Visitors, High Tech Interest

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Bipartisan Group of News Sites Launch Digital News Alliance for 2020 Election Advertising

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Natural News calls tech CEOs “lawless evil war criminals” after vanishing from Facebook

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Some Facebook content reviewers will focus solely on hate speech

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How Facebook is spending more to ensure wary publishers rely on it less

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This Big Facebook Critic Fears Tech’s Business Model

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Why this digital publisher refuses to blame Facebook for media's woes

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Trends, predictions and pitfalls: What we can learn from digital payment transparency

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Digital growth helps Haynes to half-year profit rise

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