Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ben and David are joined by Todd Bishop, technology reporter and co-founder of GeekWire, to discuss Facebook's 2011 acquisition of Push Pop Press.
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Highlights Include:
- The founding story of Push Pop Press by Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas.
- The evolution of Facebook Creative Labs, Facebook Paper, and eventually, Facebook Instant Articles.
- Facebook's role in the changing media landscape today.
- GeekWire's experiments with Facebook Instant Articles, Google Accelerated Mobile Pages, and live video.
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| 0:22.0 | who got the truth. Welcome back to Epp. Another Story on the Way That's The Way |
| 0:23.0 | That's true. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back to episode 13 of Acquired, |
| 0:27.0 | the show where we talk about technology acquisitions |
| 0:30.0 | that actually went well. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Ben Gilbert. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm David Rosenthal and we are your |
| 0:34.7 | hosts. We have a very special guest today visiting us from GeekWire. Todd |
| 0:39.6 | Bishop. Hey it's great to be here. So great to have you. I'm a fan. I'm a listener. I think yours might be the only |
| 0:46.2 | podcast that I've listened to every episode of. Whoa! speaks to the fact that you're still relatively new, |
| 0:51.2 | but yeah, I listen on my walks on the weekend |
| 0:55.2 | and really love what you guys do on the show. Thank you Todd yeah we're glad to have you yeah |
| 1:01.4 | it's a privilege and for this episode it's going to be |
| 1:04.4 | particularly interesting. We're talking about the publishing industry so we |
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