NYT subscriber growth in 2018 extended beyond the 2017 'Trump bump'
Nick Rockwell · Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Jan 17, 2019 · at 1:10
Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times, evaluates whether post-2016 political news trends were still driving subscriber growth in 2018.
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“I think we really passed the Trump bump a while ago, probably even mid to late-thousand 17, so what we saw in 18 was something different was actually, I think, real momentum, and the beginning of Well, not the beginning, but the continuation of our sort of acceleration away from the pack for a number of reasons.”
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