2023: The year of niche media, misinformation, podcasts and AI

At MX3, we wrote and talked a lot about the rise of niche media, the future of third-party cookies in ads, and the decline of scale in 2023. And did we mention artificial intelligence? 2023 has, after all, been declared “The Year of Generative AI”.  ...

Uncharted horizons: Navigating the video-first revolution

Video has ambushed the online world. The medium, certainly within the social space, and especially in short form, is now the primary mode for communication, entertainment, and marketing. What is still uncertain is where the battle between vertical and horizontal, short and long form, video...

AI’s Personal Touch: Tailoring Content, Predicting Trends

“Hello! OMG, maths is such a struggle for me! 😩 I really need something super fun and engaging. Like, it should be interactive and not too boring, you know? Also, I'm always on my phone, so if there's an app or something, that would be...

Final Call: Meet Media Mavericks where Media Mavericks Meet

Be part of our community of media leaders, innovators and mavericks from companies such as Condé Nast, Deutsche Welle, Financial Times, Flashes & Flames, Future, Her Campus Media, Industry Dive, Morning Brew, Questex, Ringier, The Wrap, Vox Media, and more as we gather in Barcelona,...

Report Download: Innovators in Specialist Media Europe (Consumer Media Edition)

Media Makers Meet – Mx3 is delighted to launch its latest report, Innovators in Specialist Media Europe (Consumer Media Edition). Written by Carolyn Morgan, the report dives deep into twenty hugely innovative, and successful, European media companies and dissects the key learnings and takeaways. Our free-to-download...

MediaMakersMeet.com (Mx3) announces its partnership with Mediaspace.global

Two of the industry's most dynamic media intelligence and business networks are partnering to enhance the sharing of business insights, networking opportunities as well as cross-promoting each other's events. MediaMakersMeet.com (Mx3) is proud to announce its partnership with Mediaspace.global. Mediaspace.global is an award-winning platform (‘Most...

TikTok, TikTok: Why my time has run out to host a short-form vertical video

I’ve learned two intriguing things about the short-form video-sharing app TikTok in the past week. The first is largely insignificant, the second, however, is illuminating.  As a start, I’m too old to ‘host’ TikTok videos. Why? Well besides my grey hair, if you were to...

DTC in Vogue: 18 ideas to maximise direct audience engagement and revenues

Amid declining platform referrals and rising concerns over AI's influence with developments such as the Search Generative Experience (SGE), publisher channels for direct-to-consumer (DTC) engagement and monetisation are and must be very much in vogue. Earlier this month, Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch announced plans to reduce...

Hey, Google. What’s the future of search for publishers?

Media was always better when it owned direct relationships with its consumers. Then, conventional wisdom held that it is okay to disintermediate in the race for traffic and scale. Now, with developments such as Facebook falling out of love with news, Twitter going X on...

Putting the brakes on AI. Why am I smelling gas?

Amid the grandeur of the UK hosting the world's first global summit on AI safety last week, a question lingers: Beyond the politics and posturing, who is actually setting the pace in regulating AI, and how? It was while mending broken boilers for British Gas...