
5 Brands with Great Content
NewsCred# started a new list this year of the 50 best content market brands, calling it #ThinkContent.

NewsCred# started a new list this year of the 50 best content market brands, calling it #ThinkContent.

In 2014 Microsoft had missed mobile, was bleeding on Surface, and had taken a $7.6B Nokia write-down. The trade press had written off the company. Twelve years later Microsoft is the most valuable public company in the world. The Nadella reset, the OpenAI partnership, the LinkedIn/GitHub/Activision acquisitions, and the bundle math that wins enterprise.

In February 2017 Disney severed its Maker Studios partnership with Felix Kjellberg within 24 hours after a Wall Street Journal investigation surfaced antisemitic content in his videos. The severance was the largest individual-creator brand-safety action in YouTube's history and the founding event of the modern brand-safety industry. The 2017 Adpocalypse and what came next.

Amazon's 2017 CVG hub announcement was the inflection point. By 2024, Amazon Logistics delivered 6B US packages — more than UPS, more than FedEx Ground.

Sports PR is the structural infrastructure separating athletes who monetize their career from athletes who don't. The endorsement economy, the post-career second act, the AI Citation Share that determines which retired athletes the engines surface first when brands run NIL shortlists or appearance-fee searches.

Arabica futures are crashing. Smucker is raising prices for the fourth time since June 2024. The driver is not beans. It is tariffs.

Recently, Forbes published a Top 10 list of the best executives in the business world.


Dr. Armin Tehrany — board-certified orthopedic surgeon, founder of Manhattan Orthopedic Care, Mount Sinai faculty, and executive producer of the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Birth of a Nation. The long-form profile.

When people want a go-to example of an unreliable source, Wikipedia is near the top of the list.