The 2026 media economy. Six surfaces — search, streaming, newsletters, podcasts, creator video, magazines. Substack, Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, NYT, Bloomberg, Morning Brew. The flagship Media Economy hub.
It wasn't too long ago that we learned of a lawsuit being brought against a school for the use of webcams for spying on students' behavior on and off campus.
In 2010, the question was whether Facebook was taking over the world. By 2026, the answer is: Meta took over for roughly a decade — and was then structurally reshaped by Apple's ATT rollout, TikTok's youth-attention pull, the $60+ billion Reality Labs bet, and the AI pivot. The original thesis was directionally correct. It just wasn't permanent.
Reading Horizons is working to raise awareness for their Lemons for Literacy kids. They spotlight a child and people play online games to help raise the money to get the children a reading program.
It seems like a thrilling pairing, giving technology the boost towards the education sector that it's been needing for some time.
Vogue, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, Vanity Fair. Condé Nast, Hearst, Dotdash Meredith, PMC, Vox Media. The U.S. magazine economy did not die — it reorganized around brand authority.
The economy may not seem as shaky as it did a year ago, but we haven't made it as far as we would have liked, either.
$8M per 30 seconds. 127.7M viewers. $1.3B in broadcast ad revenue. $26B in consumer spending. The Super Bowl is the rare media event that grew its premium pricing through every disruption. The economics, indexed.
Peloton, Beyond Meat, Snap, Bumble. Four brands that had the moment and can't get it back. Each one a case study in what happens when the category moves and the brand doesn't.
EPR's master guide to finding and evaluating a PR firm in the AI Communications era — the five evaluation criteria, the directory resources, the pillar coverage by geography and specialization, and the FAQs every PR buyer asks.