Ankler Media is an American
digital media
Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...
company owned by the Ankler Media Group. It has three main business areas: email newsletters, podcasts, and live events.
In 2021, its flagship newsletter, ''The Ankler'', was listed as one of the top three business publications on
Substack.
History
In February 2017, Richard Rushfield founded ''The Ankler'' as a paid subscription publication about the entertainment industry, which he then moved to the
Substack platform two years later.
In January 2022,
Janice Min
Janice Byung Min (born August 13, 1969) is an American media executive. She started her career in journalism, working at ''People'' magazine and ''InStyle'', and was editor-in-chief at ''Us Weekly'' from 2002 to 2009. As an executive, she revam ...
officially joined the company to form Ankler Media, which expanded the initial newsletter into several newsletters, podcasts, and live events. Min joined as co-owner and CEO, with Richard Rushfield taking the role of editorial director.
According to ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', "A focus of Ankler Media’s coverage will be the clashes between the tech executives now making big decisions in Hollywood and the ones who have been around since moviegoers waited in line to buy tickets."
In June 2022, the company raised $1.5 million at a $20 million valuation through
Y Combinator.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.theankler.com/
Companies based in Los Angeles
Entertainment companies established in 2017
Mass media companies established in 2017
Publishing companies established in 2017
Online mass media companies of the United States