{"id":125796,"date":"2026-05-07T00:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/vox-media-welcomes-a-bidding-war\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:32:01","slug":"vox-media-welcomes-a-bidding-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/vox-media-welcomes-a-bidding-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox Media Welcomes a Bidding War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.fiverr.com\/visit\/?bta=1052423&nci=17043\" Target=\"_Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fiverr.ck-cdn.com\/tn\/serve\/?cid=40081059\"  width=\"601\" height=\"201\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><em>This story was initially revealed in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly publication that explores the important thing themes shaping the media business. You possibly can join it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/preferences.adweek.com\/on-background-newsletter-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, media scion James Murdoch joined the bidding conflict for Vox Media, which has in latest months signaled its openness to promoting components of its media empire.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch, the son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and brother to Fox Corp. and Information Corp. chairman Lachlan Murdoch, expressed curiosity particularly within the Vox Media Podcast Community and the New York Journal home of manufacturers, which embody The Reduce, Strategist, Grub Avenue, Curbed, and Intelligencer.\u00a0 In line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/05\/media\/james-murdoch-new-york-magazine-vox-podcasts-300m-pivot\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, Murdoch\u2019s firm Lupa Techniques is in talks to amass the 2 properties for $300 million or extra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James, in contrast to his brother and father, has championed left-wing causes, splitting together with his household over their politics and pocketing a cool $1.1 billion in change for eradicating himself from the household belief. <\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/vox-media-roll-up-unwinds\/\" target=\"_blank\">have covered previously<\/a>, the Vox Media Podcast Community is likely one of the most worthwhile and fastest-growing parts of the Vox Media portfolio. Preliminary experiences pegged the home of podcast manufacturers as producing $60 million in income, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/05\/business\/media\/james-murdoch-vox-media.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> on Wednesday put the quantity nearer to $80 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-subscription-form-wrapper position-relative\">\n<form class=\"aw-newsletter-subscription-form d-flex flex-column gap-3 mb-0\" action=\"https:\/\/audience.adweek.com\/wp-json\/adw-iterable\/v1\/email-subscriptions\/\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\" data-attributes=\"{&quot;showSubscribedNewsletters&quot;:false,&quot;subscribeEndpoint&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/audience.adweek.com\/wp-json\/adw-iterable\/v1\/email-subscriptions\/&quot;,&quot;buttonText&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;}\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-subscribe-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-adw-blocks-newsletter-subscription-form\">\n<div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-4\">\n<p class=\"font-label h4 text-uppercase text-primary mb-0 lh-1 has-x-large-font-size\">FOR Scoops, Sharp Evaluation, and Insider Context<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-subscription-select d-flex flex-column gap-3 lh-base\" data-attributes=\"{&quot;newsletterId&quot;:7622485,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;On Background&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;A direct line to ADWEEKu2019S senior media reporter, delivering scoops, sharp analysis, and insider context on how publishing, streaming, and advertising are changing.&quot;,&quot;imageId&quot;:1907907,&quot;className&quot;:&quot;lh-base&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"row d-flex\">\n<div class=\"col-5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-subscribe-image\">         <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static-www.adweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/header-design.png\" alt=\"Newsletter Subscribe Image\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"lh-base has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color\" style=\"font-size:9px\">By submitting your e mail, you conform to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/terms-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terms of Use<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/privacy-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>\u00a0. 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Since then, a handful of suitors have expressed curiosity, with Versant, a derivative firm shaped in January when Comcast divested its cable property, main the pack.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the VMPN, New York Journal is arguably the second or third-most engaging asset within the Vox Media portfolio. It generates revenues of roughly $100 million, though its excessive price of manufacturing left it with solely round $6 million in revenue final 12 months, in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/inside-jim-bankoffs-plan-to-sell-vox-media-for-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Puck<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The storied journal has such unflattering margins, partially, as a result of it&#8217;s funneling its top-line earnings into rising its subscriber base, which counts round 400,000 paying subscribers, in accordance with an individual acquainted with enterprise. In making a bid for the crown jewels of the Vox Media empire, Murdoch creates a extra complicated gross sales course of, though one the sellers are seemingly pleased to accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>The provide instantly introduces a component of urgency to the public sale, as Vox Media can now feasibly play Versant in opposition to Murdoch. As we noticed within the Warner Bros. Discovery bake-off even a little bit competitors could be instrumental in driving up the value of an asset.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vox Media is favoring Murdoch over Versant, as the previous is providing more money than the latter, in accordance with The Occasions. And whereas such a be aware may imply the top of the bidding, it may additionally spur Versant to up its ante.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Vox Media is undoubtedly happy to have no less than two public suitors for its podcast community. It now has a close to assure that one or two of these property will transfer off its books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However that creates a couple of associated issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, each affords contain solely the very best property within the Vox Media empire. Promoting New York Journal and the VMPN was by no means going to be the exhausting half. The problem was all the time the remainder of the portfolio, which incorporates the whole lot from Eater to The Verge to The Dodo.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it leaves Vox Media working a enterprise that it has already determined is much less necessary than podcasting, in accordance with a supply near the deal. Promoting its core property will go away the remainder of the Vox Media enterprise diminished. Below these circumstances, its greatest wager could be to promote the remaining as shortly as it may.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sale may additionally current one other downside: Relying on the construction of its capital tables, Vox Media won&#8217;t even see the majority of the money proceeds from the sale, in accordance with the supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Penske Media invested $100 million in Vox Media in 2023. On condition that Penske Media was not a part of a spherical of financing, and that it was the final (public) investor within the firm, the primary money to return from a sale could possibly be earmarked for Penske.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the deal have been structured with a typical most popular fairness association, this may seemingly be the dynamic. In that case, Vox Media would discover itself divested of its greatest manufacturers with none money to indicate for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Such a state of affairs would seemingly spur Vox Media to promote the remainder of its portfolio to a set of particular person bidders, in the identical means that different media corporations with broad portfolios\u2014G\/O Media, Recurrent Ventures, Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2014have these days taken to whittling them down by way of a sequence of gross sales and spinoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capital One not too long ago kicked the tires on Eater, in accordance with Puck. A number of different bidders are presently submitting affords to Vox Media, in accordance with a number of sources. Vox Media has the luxurious of not needing to promote something proper now. However as soon as it components methods with its premiere property that dynamic may change quickly.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Speaking Heds<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Reduce and Paste, and Jezebel (SCOOP): <\/strong>When Paste Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/paste-acquires-jezebel\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired the beloved independent outlets Jezebel and Splinter<\/a> from G\/O Media virtually three years in the past, I used to be thrilled however skeptical. I used to be pleased to see the manufacturers return to publishing, however the business technique appeared underbaked. Given their material\u2014feminist commentary and left-wing politics, respectively\u2014each Jezebel and Splinter have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/splinter-paste-magazine-relaunches-jezebel\/\" target=\"_blank\">infamously difficult to monetize through open-exchange advertising<\/a>, however their new proprietor, Josh Jackson, supplied no convincing different for his or her monetization. Now, the wheels seem like coming off. In latest weeks, Paste has laid off employees, shuttered its gaming vertical, and parted methods with longtime Jezebel editor in chief Lauren Tousignant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Insiders say the difficulty began in September, when Jezebel revealed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jezebel.com\/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a>, titled We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk, two days earlier than Kirk was assassinated. The article, unsurprisingly, generated a site visitors windfall, but it surely additionally prompted the cash man behind Paste, Invoice Sagan, to get extra concerned in his funding. Former employees at the moment are brazenly pleading for one more purchaser to intervene and provides Jezebel, Splinter, and their sister web site AV Membership a brand new house. When reached for remark, Jackson pointed to a handful of recent hires the shops have made in latest weeks, together with Erik Adams and Monica Castillo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ziff Davis Buys Once more: <\/strong>On Friday, the digital media agency Ziff Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/ziff-davis-recurrent-ventures-dwell-domino-business-home-popsci\/\" target=\"_blank\">snapped up four media brands from Recurrent Ventures<\/a>: the house design titles Dwell, Domino, and Enterprise of House, in addition to the 154-year-old science publication PopSci. The corporate declined to share the acquisition value, however an M&amp;A supply acquainted with the house pegged the tie-up as seemingly underneath $20 million in complete. The acquisition is the most recent in a string of acquisitions from Ziff Davis, which in recent times has additionally scooped up CNET, theSkimm, and Lifehacker. The tie-up is notable as a result of it furthers Ziff Davis\u2019 popularity as one of many final remaining consumers of digital media manufacturers, as many traders wish to exit the house. Once I talked about this commentary to Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah previously, he reframed it, saying, \u201cWhat do I do know that they don\u2019t?\u201d For Recurrent Ventures, the spin-off goals to focus its portfolio on its two strongest divisions, auto and army, in accordance with CEO Andrew Perlman. As such, the 2 titles within the Recurrent portfolio that don&#8217;t match that description, Bob Vila and Futurism, would possibly quickly discover themselves on the block.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Occasions\u2019 Fortunate Quantity 13: <\/strong>On Wednesday, The New York Occasions reported that it now has 13.1 million subscribers, after including 310,000 digital-only subscribers within the first quarter. Given this tempo\u2014including a median of roughly 330,000 subscribers per quarter\u2014the information outlet is on tempo to satisfy its self-appointed objective of surpassing 15 million subscribers by the top of 2027. The earnings report is successfully a victory lap, full of eye-popping figures. Maybe essentially the most astounding one is its digital advert progress, which climbed 31.6%, to $93.3 million, an uptick the corporate attributed to robust demand and progress in promoting provide. The Occasions continues to guide the digital media business, with the space between it and its rivals rising farther every quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloomberg Podcasts Enhance Quantity: <\/strong>Bloomberg Media employed Cheryl Brumley, previously the worldwide head of audio at The Monetary Occasions, as its new head of podcasts, the corporate introduced on Wednesday. The appointment is the most recent indication of the ambitions that Bloomberg Media has for its podcast and video merchandise, a division wherein it has a pure benefit owing to its many years of community video programming and world footprint. The information outlet already has a number of podcast hits on its arms, most notably Odd Tons, however will probably be as much as Brumley to develop that slate and assist usher the Bloomberg portfolio firmly into the vodcast period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Affiliate Apocalypse (SCOOP): <\/strong>Within the first quarter, Amazon started halving the affiliate charges that it supplied to a lot of its publishers, in accordance with three individuals acquainted with the cuts. In some situations the corporate minimize charges from 10% to 4%. Amazon declined to share its rationale for the cuts, however sources blame the corporate\u2019s rising AI tab. For publishers with massive affiliate companies, the abrupt change from the biggest retail platform on the earth has eaten additional into their already thinning margins, making harder a enterprise that has already been hammered by declining site visitors and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/publishers-search-headwinds-creators-affiliate\/\" target=\"_blank\">increasing competition from new channels<\/a>, like creators. Popping out of the pandemic, digital commerce was booming to such a level that almost each writer launched an affiliate enterprise\u2014even Vice, in its typical vogue, sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/with-its-curated-affiliate-program-vice-prioritizes-identity-over-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\">corner the market on sex toy sales<\/a>. However these days are lengthy gone, and now solely business leaders like Wirecutter and The Strategist have the assets to stay within the house profitably. In response, affected publishers are working extra intently with Amazon rivals, like Walmart and Goal, sources inform ADWEEK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pulled Quotes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019m attempting to set the all-time file for achievement by one particular person in a single lifetime.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><em>Leisure mogul Ted Turner, who died Wednesday, describing his ambitions to a biographer<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/06\/business\/media\/ted-turner-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201c\u2018By no means thoughts we discovered cash exclamation level,\u2019 Sloane stated into her watch.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><em>A teen, from a pleasant profile of recent youth<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/05\/11\/the-life-and-times-of-an-american-tween\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cAll of sports activities betting, all of enjoying poker, all of choices buying and selling, is ensuring you\u2019re betting in opposition to somebody you\u2019re smarter than.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><em>Jeff Yass, founding father of the quantitative buying and selling agency Susquehanna, on prediction markets<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/investing\/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11?st=9NfXTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cNow greater than ever, audiences want clear, fact-based, nonpartisan journalism. And as we construct Vice Information for a brand new technology, we\u2019re proud to associate with Adobe Acrobat and take our viewers even additional into the story.\u201d<\/strong><br \/><em>Vice founder Shane Smith, by no means lacking a chance to mix reportage with sponsorship<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/vice-news-returns-shane-smith-1236587574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Quote\/Unquote<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Matt Rodbard is the founder and editor in chief of the meals media model Style, in addition to the cohost of its podcast, That is Style. The outlet launched in 2017 as an in-house division of Crown Publishing, itself an imprint of the publishing agency Penguin Random Home. Initially conceived as a content material advertising and marketing car for the cookbooks revealed by Crown, Style started monetizing its personal content material on the finish of 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Style publication now has 250,000 subscribers, whereas the podcast generates over 100,000 downloads a month. The one-man operation is on tempo to interrupt seven figures in income by the top of the 12 months, partially because of an progressive business product wherein manufacturers invite Style to discover the tales behind their corporations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This interview has been edited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Stenberg: Style has a novel mannequin, provided that it was launched as a division within a e book publishing imprint. How did that come about?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Rodbard: <\/strong>Crown wished to market its cookbooks, however they realized that they couldn\u2019t simply copy and paste advertising and marketing scripts and name it a day. I noticed an enormous alternative to inform the tales of the authors by way of editorial, and it grew from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark: Style initially began as text-based reporting, however is now recognized primarily for its podcast. How did that transition occur?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt: <\/strong>We&#8217;re very dedicated to textual content. We pay freelancers and publish a function per week, though that&#8217;s down from 5 every week. In 2018 we launched the podcast, ramped up after the pandemic, and in 2023 hit our three-times-a-week cadence. We estimate that we get round 2.5 million listening minutes a month, so whereas we&#8217;re not the largest podcast, I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re the one individuals in meals wish to be on essentially the most.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark: What distinguishes That is Style from different meals podcasts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt: <\/strong>Lots of people assume a meals podcast is when somebody calls in to speak about dietary yeast. That&#8217;s boring. We&#8217;re a conversational present about meals tradition, which is totally different from cooking. Not too long ago we\u2019ve had on New York Occasions\u2019 meals author Luke Fortney, who touched on the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7fsa1ncXhFTSk0NeOFSRZ6?si=ba920458949d4093\" target=\"_blank\">rotisserie chicken inflation debate<\/a>, Austin chef and cookbook writer <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/65KFoZ2JuQodiZ6MJIc0QG?si=6011d9a994134c8a\" target=\"_blank\">Fermin Nunez<\/a>, and meals enterprise capitalist <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2G5j8Gu2CHcqYdDBfJuhB1?si=2e0c9663a99a4169\" target=\"_blank\">Elly Truesdell<\/a>. We simply minimize an episode with Jess Shadbolt, the chef behind the buzzy New York restaurant Dean\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark: Recently you will have been experimenting with a business format, wherein a meals model sponsors a complete podcast. How does that work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt: <\/strong>Meals for us is about storytelling, and plenty of meals manufacturers have superb tales. I simply bought again from a visit to Spain the place we shot a whole lot of content material associated to some family names within the tinned fish house. CPG manufacturers and tourism boards want this nuance as a result of cabinets are saturated and a big a part of what they&#8217;re promoting is their identification. We clearly label these as sponsored, however the listener reception has been overwhelmingly constructive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark: You famously refuse to place full-length video variations of That is Style on-line. Why?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt: <\/strong>Don\u2019t get me unsuitable: We do clip out vertical movies for Reels and YouTube Shorts. However I feel individuals don&#8217;t watch full-video podcasts, and I don\u2019t need our visitors to really feel like they\u2019ll be on digital camera for 40 minutes. A variety of our visitors are relieved once they discover that out. 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