Pnr: This Old Marketing | Content Marketing With Joe Pulizzi And Robert Rose

In this broken pipe episode of This Old Marketing, Joe and Robert talk about Medium's latest pivot while AOL thinks they've discovered a better way to serve up advertising.  In addition, Gary V leads the way for 2017 to be the year agencies started buying media companies. Rants and raves include Tom Brady and long-form content.  This week's TOM example: AARP. This week's story links: Renewing Medium’s Focus https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.e5j5kw3c3   Vayner Media Acquires Women’s Publisher PureWow http://www.wsj.com/articles/gary-vaynerchuk-acquires-womens-publisher-purewow-1483531201   AOL Hopes These Two New Ad Formats Will Thwart Ad Blocking http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/aol-hopes-these-2-new-ad-formats-will-thwart-ad-blocking-175374   Buzzfeed’s Tasty Cookbook Sold Enough Copies To Make It One Of The Bestselling Cookbooks of the Year http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/buzzfeeds-tasty-cookbook-sold-enough-copies-on-a-single-site-in-2-months-to-make-it-one-of-the-bests