Oversubscribed

Do you suffer from weak streams?

The Case Against Streaming TV Shows
A 20-30 hour time commitment, much of which is done alone, with only a loose promise of a pay-off. Why do we do this to ourselves?¹

How I turned an Instagram page into a $30 Million Dollar Business
Emily Oberg, founder of Sporty & Rich, shares her “no rich parents, no investors” entrepreneurial journey as she prepares to launch her new sexual wellness brand.²

inside the hot girl economy
“what they didn’t yet understand is that young women like them are the foundation of new york’s nightlife economy, and that without their enthusiastic buy-in, the system would completely unravel.”³

Adam Neumann quietly builds new media startup
The WeWork founder bought Whalebone Magazine last year, launched a new magazine called The Flow Trip, and has claims to have amassed 13,000 subscribers.⁴

The End of the Subscription Era is Coming

At a basic level the cost per journalist, cost per editor, cost per photographer, cost per columnist, commentator, critic, contrarian…etc is going up in journalism, not down. Just as OnlyFans is, in fact, an extremely expensive way of consuming pornography (I don’t want to give away the secrets of the internet, but you can, in fact, acquire pornography for free), so too is the current trend of Substackification an extremely expensive way of consuming journalism.⁵

The J. Peterman Edition
On cinematic universes, Seinfeld, and physical catalogs.⁶

The 100 Best Sports Moments of the Quarter Century
The Ringer staff delivers an exhaustive–even by their standards–highlight reel from 25 years worth of sports history.⁷

'He's got it': An oral history of the NBA's COVID-19 shutdown -- and how it changed sports forever
Behind-the-scenes at the NBA in the weeks leading up to Rudy Gobert becoming pro sports’ patient zero.⁸

British Artist George Townley's Illustrations are a Love Letter to L.A.
If you love L.A., you should check out George’s new book.⁹

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Still hungry for more? Check out the rest of this week’s best over at The Preview.

1. Trung Phan

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Emily Oberg

3. Steph Stiner

4. Sarah Fischer, Axios

5.

Nick Hilton

, Future Proof

6. Zachary Weiss, Why is this interesting?

7. The Ringer Staff

8. Baxter Holmes and Tim McMahon, ESPN

9. Chris Nichols, Los Angeles Magazine