Lifehacker

8 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2016 by Whitson Gordon · said 19 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Mar 5, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Gordon spends nearly as much time editing headlines as entire posts
“I will spend almost as much time editing a headline as I will editing the post.”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 8:04 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016
Insight
Gordon: Lifehacker's growth was 50% quality content and 50% marketing
“I've always contributed to kind of 50% just having good quality content that people actually respect, and 50% knowing how to market that content.”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 4:58 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016
Insight
Gordon: Write detailed individual posts before publishing roundup anchor articles
“I would absolutely write the individual articles first. Because those are the ones that are, because you want people, when they go to that, you know, top 10 article, when that gets its biggest influx of traffic, which is going to be when you post it, and not n…”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 10:58 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016
Insight
Gordon: Broad article topics lack substance and fail to stand out
“The broader you are, the less you're gonna, the less substance you're gonna have, and the less you're gonna be able to compare yourself to all of the other articles.”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 9:30 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016 negative
Insight
Gordon: Download Squad and GHacks struggled because they neglected social marketing
“Look at all of these old sites that had, Good and interesting stuff like Download Squad or G-Hacks, which is still around, but isn't, you know isn't really sustaining very well, and they didn't market themselves as well as something like Lifehacker did. They d…”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 7:26 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016 positive
Disclosure
Lifehacker separates genuine product recommendations from affiliate link monetization
“We recommend products we like, and then the business side will go say, okay, do these people have an affiliate program? Let's, you know, let's see if we can put that in. Rather than us saying, okay, who has an affiliate program we can try to recommend and make…”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 12:10 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Mar 5, 2016 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Gordon: Lifehacker grew from 4M to 15M US monthly uniques
“Monthly uniques were probably about four million, and now Lifehacker is pulling in you know, the fifteen million, and that's just in the U.S.”
Whitson Gordon Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 3:57 How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187
Jan 26, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Sortd's 200,000-user acquisition has been entirely organic
“All of our traffic has been organic, and all of our acquisition has come from user referral, things like Product Hunt, Lifehacker”
Wayne Silberman Jan 26, 2017 ▶ 6:53 EP 551: Sortd, 200,000 users, $500k invested so far, launched2014, othe rbusness funding this that does $1m/yr. Raising $1m sortd
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