Minute Media CEO Asaf Peled Discusses Players Tribune Deal

Minute Media, the parent company of The Big Lead, announced last week that it is acquiring The Players' Tribune, Derek Jeter's players-led site. Minute's CEO Asaf Peled joined the Glass Half Empty podcast to discuss the acquisition:

We discussed:

- How long were talks in the works, who approached whom, and how Minute Media plans to create synergies between its existing platforms and TPT.

- Minute Media's international soccer footprint via the company's flagship property 90min.com, and all the opportunities that opens up with TPT.

- Continuing to add more audio and especially video content to TPT.

- Whether the successful acquisition of Mental Floss indicates more deals coming in the culture/lifestyle space, and if the site's evergreen ethos is transferable to sports.

- How will the company reconcile editorial guidance with its suite of sites as it pertains to athletes who are Players' Tribune contributors?

- How scary is the thought of a Google algorithm change that wipes out or substantially decreases outbound traffic like what happened with Facebook?

- The process of raising over $100 million, and how the company expects to become profitable.

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