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Is Vice Media's 4.5B valuation an illusion? (Updated) (vicemediakit.com)
5 points by I_HALF_CATS on April 17, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



AUTHOR NOTE: I discovered news.Y from traffic statistics to an earlier version of this article. The article remains a "work in progress" but has been significantly updated.

http://vicemediakit.com redirects to https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/vice-media-kit-warning-...

If self-posting is banned I'll delete this. Otherwise I'll try to answer any questions.

SUMMARY: Print circulation numbers multiplied by 10, traffic multiplied by 4-10 times and dodgy hiring practices. All these corporate shenanigans, to me, add up to the largest house of cards in the media world.

ABOUT ME: After getting my M.Arch I realized I was in a unique position to write a book on Vice Media. I wrote it because I believe click-fraud and anti-competitive practices are drowning out the honest players in the media world.




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