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Cheat Sheet: Design Targets

In B2B, design often refers to silicon and semiconductors. But just as often, it means the art and science of building elegant, successful consumer-facing products and services. This makes it challenging to build a cheat sheet…

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Cheat Sheet: Design Podcasts

Here are seven podcasts produced by legit experts in the design field. The podcasts are updated frequently, so there appears to be a good amount of “inventory” for you to pitch to.

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Similarweb Audience Data: Axios, Fortune Just Keep Growing

Axios and Fortune continue to be star performers in the world of Tier 1 edit, according to the latest data from Similarweb.

From June 2023 through June 2024, Axios increased its readership by 47.5 percent, from 22.5M monthly visitors to 31.1M on a trailing 12-month basis. How does Axios do it? Smart management, smart verticals, smart brevity.

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Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Corporate Sponsorships

This cheat sheet was born from a valet request for reporters who are covering corporate sponsorships of the Olympics — which will come and go. Fact is, most if not all of these 11 journalists stand to cover sponsorships in general — if the deal was interesting enough.

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Cheat Sheet: ‘Back-to-School’ Reviewers

f you represent a tech product that fits in a “back to school” category, you had better get those pitches together — the coverage is already appearing. This cheat sheet contains 11 targets, many freelance and connected to a publication’s “list and best of” operations.

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Cheat Sheet: Forbes Contributors

At long last, here’s the SWMS cheat sheet on Forbes contributors. Listed are 66 contributors whose work appeared at least once between Apr. 26 and Jun. 5 in either the AI, the cloud and the enterprise tech section.

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ServiceNow Throws Money at Fortune to Jumpstart AI Spending

ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned media is just not going get a strategic job done.

AIQ shows a big idea and how to leverage the prestige of Fortune without having to pitch stories to accomplish that same objective: you can just buy shelf space. In the case of AIQ, Fortune hired freelancer Sage Lazzaro — who used to work on staff there to create high-level content. So let’s keep an eye on this project, monitoring how well-respected it is… and whether its content gets surfaced in search engines.

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