One day, not long from now, people will look back and this is what they’ll say:
“Can you believe how stupid we were back then? All we cared about was “pageviews, pageviews, pageviews;” full stop. And all the while, we never really gave much of a damn about the quality of those views— or of the person doing the viewing. I don’t know how we could have been so stupid. And for so long.”
Here’s hoping this applies to click rates, as well. The scariest thing? This is still a step up from the generation of media when guesstimated viewership / readership was literally the only metric that anyone cared about.
And those were apparently the good old days.
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applies to click rates, as well. The scariest thing? This...media when guesstimated...
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