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Curation has always been a difficult topic to talk about and there are very mixed reactions to curation services. On the one hand we hate them, because they take away traffic, which reduces loyalty to individual publishers and creates a gap between the audience and the publishers.
But at the same time, many publishers are trying to engage in curation. So, we hate it when other people do it, but we love it when we do it.
But how should we really think about this? What is the future of curation? And how should we think about it as publishers?
Well, let's dive into this in this 35-page article.
One of the primary problems with curation is that many publishers apply it without really thinking about what they are applying it to.
Curation works really well when each publisher is unable to stand on their own, when they are merely part of a bigger puzzle. It works really badly when you already have everything you need.
To put this into perspective, let's talk about getting married.
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