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Vouchification / Mike Fourcher / Nov 6, 2017
“It doesn’t take a detective to figure out why DNAInfo was not profitable. It was an ad supported business in two crowded markets, New York and Chicago, where it was far from the first ad buy. The sites were never crowded with ads, and their email newsletters were often filled with house ads. Their neighborhood print papers, distributed when they had an ad to run, became less and less frequent, evidence of fewer and fewer ads.” AE
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