Joe.ie goes Bang!!

raven136

Mad_maxx wrote: »

what is kinsella other than an uber WOKE PC merchant ?

A really good writer

Mad_maxx

raven136 wrote: »

A really good writer

stock n trade leftist

ten a penny in this country

4068ac1elhodqr

Are click farms the new chick farms?

Was thinking of a shed load of chickens etc, for fine food and organic hen eggs to flog down at the Farmer's market.
Now after reading about Joe, would a tin shed of blackmarket far-eastern mouse finger clickers, be the real big earner?

Birneybau

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I don't know why i hated joe.ie
But i am experiencing schadenfraude.

It was the owner for me, always thought he was a chancer.


https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/niall-mcgarry-steps-away-from-maximum-media-business-in-ireland-1.4098499

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_McGarry

GiftofGab

godtabh wrote: »

Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous

Well they used to sponsor Conor McGregor during the ufc. Had joe.ie written across his a*rse. That would cost a few bob.

Shefwedfan

Every sports website is now reduced to clickbait

Joe.ie rugby podcast was good. Not sure why people are revelling in people losing jobs. Just a bit distasteful.....

Arghus

Couldn't get past the owner either - just look at him.

suicide_circus

Arghus wrote: »

Couldn't get past the owner either - just look at him.

looks like he spent the €6m on tight white shirts, spray tan and goatee maintenance

geordi

The reviews on Glassdoor are a good read - total car crash of a business https://www.glassdoor.ie/Reviews/Maximum-Media-Reviews-E1276804.htm

L1011

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Would occasionally check the desktop website as they usually do a daily 'what movies are on tonight' feature, which was mildly useful.
Although even that became more and more troublesome lately as it would take ages for the page to load because of all the ads the page contained.

Also very cringy was the weekly Late Late show 'stories' (that were clearly sponsored by RTÉ);
Started off with a piece on a Friday saying who was on the Late Late that night, then shortly afterwards they also started saying who was on Graham Norton (I guess to not make the RTÉ ad look so obvious), but for the Late Late preview it was a paragraph for each of the RTÉ staff that was on that night, and for the Graham Norton preview, it was simply named what Hollywood superstars were on that night's show.

Then you could be guaranteed that from Saturday to Monday, there were usually 2-3 stories a day about the 'mad gas craic' that was had on the previous nights Late Late show, with customary clips of said 'banter'. Isn't Ryan Tubridy brilliant........

Joe.ie, will not be missed.

RTE don't have the money for any of that. They just provided better press releases to copy/paste from; and the recap content is piss easy to and gets the clicks.

ChikiChiki

geordi wrote: »

The reviews on Glassdoor are a good read - total car crash of a business https://www.glassdoor.ie/Reviews/Maximum-Media-Reviews-E1276804.htm

What's the video scandal?

Always sensed something was off about the owner. Almost wanted the status and notiority without putting the real work in. The click farm debacle showed up the whole thing as a con job.

GiftofGab

GiftofGab wrote: »

Well they used to sponsor Conor McGregor during the ufc. Had joe.ie written across his a*rse. That would cost a few bob.

Serves them right the c*nts so..

Still waters

It was really shìt

Website is still up.

The Ireland Unfiltered podcast is another one along with the GAA Hour that I hope finds a new home when it does go.

Sheep Shagger

whisky_galore wrote: »

A child can copy and paste.

And scrape tweets.

landofthetree

I hate the site. It's a left wing Marxist pile of rubbish.

But I'm sorry to see people lose their jobs.

L1011

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Website is still up.

They're in examinership, not liquidation. Yet.

Arghus

landofthetree wrote: »

I hate the site. It's a left wing Marxist pile of rubbish.

But I'm sorry to see people lose their jobs.

Marxist? Ah here, get a grip.

It's plastered full of ads!

Jim Root

It’s a shame as their visionary leader will no doubt cite COVID as the reason it went under, when in reality, it was built on quicksand all along.

Jim Root

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

The Ireland Unfiltered podcast is another one along with the GAA Hour that I hope finds a new home when it does go.

Straight on the patreon they should go. Best of luck to them.

Jim Root

Jim Root wrote: »

Straight on the patreon they should go. Best of luck to them.

They never charged for them before and I certainly don’t want to see the situation develop where the majority of podcasts become subscription only.

Jim Root

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

They never charged for them before and I certainly don’t want to see the situation develop where the majority of podcasts become subscription only.

I pay for 3 small independent podcasts via patreon and feel it is worth the money, content is usually better, no ads, and feel a sense a pride in supporting a small business. Appreciate it won’t work for everyone.

Jim Root

Jim Root wrote: »

I pay for 3 small independent podcasts via patreon and feel it is worth the money, content is usually better, no ads, and feel a sense a pride in supporting a small business. Appreciate it won’t work for everyone.

I’m currently paying for 3 also, but I definitely don’t want them all going paid. I listen to about 5 hours of them a day.

da_miser

Jim Root wrote: »

I pay for 3 small independent podcasts via patreon and feel it is worth the money, content is usually better, no ads, and feel a sense a pride in supporting a small business. Appreciate it won’t work for everyone.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I’m currently paying for 3 also, but I definitely don’t want them all going paid. I listen to about 5 hours of them a day.

Why the secrecy , tell us who they are?

da_miser

I see Vice media has joined Buzzfeed in having to lay off staff, could it be we have reached peak outrage culture, total saturation of the market has been reached, if so it does not look good for the lefty media, they where at their peak of power in the last few years could not stop Trump, Brexit and Johnson.

Silentcorner

da_miser wrote: »

I see Vice media has joined Buzzfeed in having to lay off staff, could it be we have reached peak outrage culture, total saturation of the market has been reached, if so it does not look good for the lefty media, they where at their peak of power in the last few years could not stop Trump, Brexit and Johnson.

The media industry will be the last to cop on that the cultural sands have shifted....it doesn't take a genius to cop on that people don't like being told how to live their lives ...it was rejected in the 80s...it is being rejected now.

Kh1993

They looked like they sank crazy amount of money on the UK operation, never really took off. They got in loads of popular sporty Uk twitter accounts involved that then just seemed to disappear.

No loss other than peoples jobs. They did some okish current affairs recently but they never really got past the clickbait crap they started off with. The owner is a buffoon and the reaction to the click farm shenanigans was mad. And woke? Ha! Middle ground compared to another click farm classic like the ‘Liberal’

Lots of their Irish and GAA coverage amounted to “Ah Mayo, haha, LOL that’s so funny. Up Mayo”.

ChikiChiki

da_miser wrote: »

I see Vice media has joined Buzzfeed in having to lay off staff, could it be we have reached peak outrage culture, total saturation of the market has been reached, if so it does not look good for the lefty media, they where at their peak of power in the last few years could not stop Trump, Brexit and Johnson.

Hopefully tbh. Saying that it's no excuse for Trump and Boris either. Seems to be extremes on both sides who have the most influence when most of us are fairly middleground.

ILoveYourVibes

Hopefully breitbart goes bankrupt.