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Wenner: Early society did not produce great women journalists in rock/culture
“It didn't matter to me, but it's just that the general society just didn't produce great women journalists at that time. There are a few who wrote for the times, but not many who wrote in our area.”
Humm Packed the Dining Room With Friends for the NYT Critic
“So on nights that we thought he would come, we would invite a bunch of people, friends, regular guests. So the restaurant felt full when he came.”
The New York Times acquired Wirecutter for more than the reported $30M
“Is that number is actually wrong. It was a leak that was incorrect, but the times published it. It was more, but it wasn't an extraordinary amount.”
Von Ahn: reCAPTCHA charged the NYT $42,000 per archive year
“And we, the number we came up with was for every year of content, we will charge you 42,000 dollars.”
Zola's team leaked Hallmark's ad ban to NYT without executive permission
“The thing that I am most proud of this entire incident, was that the team didn't ask permission to go and tell the New York Times.”
Shyamalan: Box Office, Critics, and External Validation Are Irrelevant
“So all this other stuff, to be honest, I've learned is irrelevant. How many people did come on the weekend, and what did the New York Times think, and what did that fan think, and oh, that other guy made that much, or did that, or oh, the cover, they offered y…”
Von Ahn: reCAPTCHA charged NYT $42,000 per archive year
“The number we came up with was for every year of content, we will charge you 42,000 dollars.”
NYT article drove RTR's entire first-year sales projection in three weeks
“So because of hustling to get this story and the luck of ending up on the front page of the New York Times, we met our first year sales projections in three weeks”
The viral Jericho campaign yielded few repeat buyers but massive SEO backlinks
“Interestingly, from a business standpoint, we then did some analysis on, hey, did these people become customers and come back? Nah, not really. But what I realized was we're getting links, as you can imagine, mattered a lot then. New York Times. That's a lot o…”
Von Ahn: reCAPTCHA digitized a year of NYT archives every week
“A year was being done in about a week.”
Tibbott put The Washington Post on hold for The New York Times.
“At one point, I had to put the Washington Post on hold to talk to the New York Times.”
EMP Never Had an Empty Seat After Its NYT Review
“The review came out, and it was a glowing review, and we never had an empty seat since that day.”
The New York Times judges output over pedigree in a competitive culture
“I actually don't think of the Times as a particularly, like, snobby place about, like, your resume. It's really about the work you're doing. They're really focused on, like, what you're producing. It is incredibly competitive. It's not warm and fuzzy”
A two-star NYT review tripled Union Square Cafe's business overnight
“That two-star review that we got. I think it tripled our business overnight.”
Krieger: Dropping app descriptive tags in press signals mainstream cultural arrival
“I noticed that the New York Times, when they would cover us, had stopped saying Instagram, comma, The photo sharing app, and then it was just Instagram. I'm like, oh, we are, we have now reached the point where they can assume that most of their readers know w…”
Corcoran: The Corcoran Group owed over $300k after 1987 crash
“Well, I was really on the brink of declaring that it was over, but I was ashamed in trying to make back the money I owed to various suppliers like my ad agency the New York Times, but I owed over 300,000 dollars.”
Escape My Bubble Gained 100,000 Signups After New York Times Coverage
“I think it was written about, or mentioned in the New York Times, and that drove close to a 100,000 signups for the extension.”
A New York Times review brought massive daily crowds within two weeks
“After the New York Times article, I think it was like two weeks after we opened, we were slammed every single day. It was like madness.”
Major Publishers Evaluated Apture Solely on Dwell Time and Ad Impressions
“We did deals with the Washington post, the New York times, the economist, and they would ask us one question, which was how much did you increase the amount of time people spent on my website? Okay. How many ad views impressions did you increase?”