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The Atlantic gained 20,000 subscribers after Trump dismissed it as a 'dying' magazine — edition.cnn.com

Warning: this article has a really loud autoplay video! Do not open when pretending to concentrate in your morning meeting!

President Trump wrote The Atlantic off as a "dying" magazine last week after it published an explosive story about him allegedly disparaging Americans who died in war. In reality, the publisher is doing very well, and Trump's comments came at the same time as a subscriber surge.

Since it introduced a paywall last year, The Atlantic has added 325,000 paid subscribers (against an initial target of 110,000 in 2 years). More than 20,000 of those apparently signed up last weekend after The Atlantic published Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg's now viral article, "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers.'"

Given an Atlantic subscription is around $50, that means the article netted the publisher a neat $1 million+ in a single weekend.

I wonder what it would take to get Trump to say Media Voices was dying...

Smart Banners point to Apple News instead of publisher apps in iOS 14 — appleinsider.com

In the latest iOS 14 beta, a Smart App Banner will appear when users open a webpage hosted by a participating News+ publisher. This is apparently in addition to the automatic link redirect spotted last month. Apple really really wants you to be reading content in News+.

How media habits relate to voter participation — knightfoundation.org

Many of us have long suspected that the way people consume media has a relationship with their inclination to vote. This report firms up this hunch, detailing the relationships between non-voters' news engagement and their likelihood of voting. Spoiler: if you get most of your news from social media and friends/family, you're much less likely to vote.

Gaming coverage is growing at Bloomberg, The Washington Post and Wired — edition.cnn.com

Gaming is a $74 billion dollar industry, but coverage has largely been left to more niche publications. Now as interest in gaming grows higher than ever, The Washington Post, Bloomberg and Wired are looking to invest properly in gaming journalism. Good news, although sad that Kotaku UK has had to close at the same time following Future's decision not to renew the license.

This week's podcast:

Special: 6 things you missed over summer 2020 — voices.media

In this first episode back following an… eventful summer for media, the team discusses six topics you might have missed over the past month. Get the latest on Facebook & Google vs Australia, what difference mainstream podcast coverage could make, and what media leaders make of Vogue Business' reader revenue play.

7 things we’ve learned from launching a daily newsletter — voices.media

We've learned a lot from putting this newsletter together every day for the past 4+ months. In this article, we pull out some of our biggest lessons, including our approach to analytics, workflow improvements, and more.