The Ledger
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DeBaun: Legacy Black media failed mobile while millennial media ignored Black audiences
“Black media is moving too slow because they're antiquated in terms of magazines and newspapers. They never really made the switch to mobile first and digital first. And then millennial media, they don't care.”
DeBaun: About 50% of Blavity content comes from community
“About 50% of our content today is actually from the community, which has its own problems but in the long run, you know, it does.”
DeBaun: Blavity raised an unannounced funding round beyond $1M
“Yeah, I had a, I had another round that hasn't really been announced.”
Manalac: Blavity reached 7M readers and raised $1M since 2014
“So Morgan started Blavity in 2014, and since then they've built a community of over seven million readers and they've raised a million dollars, which they announced last year.”
DeBaun: Blavity's women's vertical grew faster than core brand
“And then that was actually growing faster than Blavity.”