Just listened to the Recode episode with Peretti + Denton + Smith and am reading Traffic now. I think you're right about the homepage. It seems like an intermediary until AI picks up steam on the personalized homepage front. Peretti had a comment about that towards the end, and I can see him taking HuffPo & Buzzfeed into that personalized direction -- as a personalized homepage experience
what publishers have been lacking for 20+ years is a.) interactive-content innovation and b.) D2C ecommerce. the rest is futile.
Just listened to the Recode episode with Peretti + Denton + Smith and am reading Traffic now. I think you're right about the homepage. It seems like an intermediary until AI picks up steam on the personalized homepage front. Peretti had a comment about that towards the end, and I can see him taking HuffPo & Buzzfeed into that personalized direction -- as a personalized homepage experience