{"id":8464,"date":"2013-10-16T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2013-10-16T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T08:55:53","slug":"what-sort-of-a-blogging-empire-does-80-million-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/what-sort-of-a-blogging-empire-does-80-million-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What sort of a blogging empire does $80 million get you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Bankoff raises another $40 million (to add to the existing $40 million) in Vox Media, home of SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, and a number of other blogs. That&#8217;s a lot of capital, and I struggle to see a buy-out as an end game for Bankoff and the team. This is either going to be a rather large IPO, or a forward looking attempt to establish Vox as a CBS\/NBC\/ABC for the 21st century and stay around forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Bankoff raises another $40 million (to add to the existing $40 million) in Vox Media, home of SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, and a number of other blogs. That&#8217;s a lot of capital, and I struggle to see a buy-out as an end game for Bankoff and the team. This is either going to be a rather large IPO, or a forward looking attempt to establish Vox as a CBS\/NBC\/ABC for the 21st century and stay around forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,112],"tags":[4795,2714,2713,4858],"class_list":["post-8464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-20-news","tag-polygon","tag-sb-nation","tag-the-verge","tag-vox-media","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2cw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}