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kokonutz Mar 29, 2019 10:32 pm
Originally Posted by oliver2002 (Post 30941913)
Nope, that is staying. What may/will/must happen is that the HOM/RanDecisions will soon cash out on the BArea pot of gold. Most probably all of the bloggers hosted by BArea can't do anything about it.
But isn't BA's greatest asset OMAAT and VFTW? And they are free to walk anytime?

Reminds me of the time on Mad Men when the British buyers found out that Don Draper wasn't under contract.

GUWonder Mar 31, 2019 4:58 pm
Originally Posted by gpapadop (Post 30936584)
Maybe he had an offer from TPG which he found demeaning lol.
Would TPG even try to buy up the BA heavy-weights? TPG seems to have the audience it wants and seems intent to build it up by poaching writers who have their following but are small enough to be bought by it on the relative cheap.

oliver2002 Apr 1, 2019 1:31 am
It seems Brian of TPG has taken over the role Randy played a few years ago and is now courted by the travel loyalty industry (and the credit card companies, but that is more of a 2010s phenomenon and was never really Randys thing). Gary and Ben were pushed/promoted by Randy in the past (eg when a news outlet called to get an appearance etc) but not to the extent to replace him entirely.

Neither managed to clearly step out of the shadow of Randy and while the credit card commissions flowed and some ad revenue came in, Brian/TPG gets the limelight.

kokonutz Apr 2, 2019 3:55 am
Originally Posted by oliver2002 (Post 30951397)
It seems Brian of TPG has taken over the role Randy played a few years ago and is now courted by the travel loyalty industry (and the credit card companies, but that is more of a 2010s phenomenon and was never really Randys thing). Gary and Ben were pushed/promoted by Randy in the past (eg when a news outlet called to get an appearance etc) but not to the extent to replace him entirely.

Neither managed to clearly step out of the shadow of Randy and while the credit card commissions flowed and some ad revenue came in, Brian/TPG gets the limelight.
This feels like what is happening.

Big difference: Randy was always a bit of hippie and that kept him from selling out entirely (even when he sold FlyerTalk he tried to make it happen again with MilePoint rather than staying on his knees before his new corporate overlords). Brian has no such qualms.

GUWonder May 16, 2019 3:10 pm
So to whom and when is RandyPetersen selling off the BA blog business?

Raffles May 17, 2019 1:37 am
Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 31108840)
So to whom and when is RandyPetersen selling off the BA blog business?
As the 80/20 rules is at play here, probably no-one unless Ben gets a big cut of the equity,

There is something here though. Ben has card links, others do not. Under some sort of structures, Ben could probably take control and then make the other BA writers subaffiliates using his permissions. Could be lucrative.

oliver2002 May 17, 2019 1:49 am
Don't forget VFTW.

84fiero May 17, 2019 8:40 am
Originally Posted by Raffles (Post 31110254)


As the 80/20 rules is at play here, probably no-one unless Ben gets a big cut of the equity,

There is something here though. Ben has card links, others do not. Under some sort of structures, Ben could probably take control and then make the other BA writers subaffiliates using his permissions. Could be lucrative.
:confused: Lots of BA bloggers have abundant credit card affiliate links. Ben isn't at all unique in that regard.

gpapadop May 17, 2019 1:11 pm
GSTP already subleasing cc affiliate links from Ben. Ok,, so more do among BA blogs...but that market is inherently limited (think 5/24, amex once in a lifetime, etc)...

While GTP has deals with Business Insider and a crapload of other heavy traffic sites dealing wit newbies who had never had a CSP before.

#developing


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