Are attention, taste, trust the only moats left?

About this episode

Letterland Live SPAM or STAR is powered by beehiiv. Want to send from the ESP where newsletter legends are made? Get 30% off beehiiv with code FALL30 @ beehiiv.link/fall30 This week on Letterland LIVE we're joined by Jacob Donnelly, founder of A Media Operator, fresh off moderating the AMO Summit. Jacob plays Spam or Star (Is fandom the only metric that matters? Should every paid newsletter also run ads?), shares his biggest takeaways and a little green room intel from the AMO Summit, tells us where he stands on the "newsletters are dead" debate, and reveals what he reads every day. Then Jordan DiPietro, founder of Signal // Noise Media, operating partner at srch., and former CEO of The Hustle and Hampton. Jordan breaks down how to tell if you built an audience or just a relationship with an algorithm, his three creator arbitrages (attention, taste and trust), how he's growing and monetizing Signal // Noise, whether the $7-a-month tier is a dead end, and why media companies should still hire 22-year-olds. We'll get into: - Fans vs. readers: Industry Dive's Sean Griffey says Morning Brew lost its fandom, and Brew CEO Robert Dippell fires back - Stratechery is now presented by S