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The Fall of CNN

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2907, Eric Siu and Neil Patel discuss the decline of CNN and legacy media, the challenges faced by HubSpot regarding SEO traffic, and the impact of AI on content creation and customer support.  Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Check out more of Eric’s content (Leveling UP YT) and Neil’s videos (Neil Patel YT)  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: (00:00) The Decline of CNN and Legacy Media (02:46) HubSpot's SEO Traffic Challenges (05:57) The Impact of AI on Content Creation (10:14) AI in Customer Support and Product Development (15:13) The Future of AI and Creativity (17:18) That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more!   Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next?  Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.   Connect with Us:    Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel X @ericosiu

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0:00.0

How about the fall of CNN? That's a brand. That is a brand. But this is a negative feeling

0:06.0

when you think about CNN nowadays. CNN, by the way, I used to read that stuff all the time in high

0:10.1

school when we were like the US was invading Iraq. I'll just read CNN all the time. But they're

0:15.2

cutting 200 people. You see that? I don't believe them, but I'm not a CNN fan for a different reason. Okay, so here's Mario Nafal tweeted this.

0:22.6

CNN to lay off hundreds as it struggles to compete with new media.

0:25.7

So they're trying to move over to $3.99 a month subscriptions,

0:28.9

and they're cutting a lot of the TV staff.

0:31.0

NBC is also looking to cut about 50 people or so.

0:33.9

And the other day, someone was, I was like, someone was interviewing. I think it was like a speaker of the house. And the CNN anchor was like, you're on the news, sir. He's like, dude, nobody watches CNN. Like people go to Cartoon Network and watch reruns instead. And I just think this is an example of a brand that's going, that has been going in the wrong direction and I think eventually

0:55.5

the nail will hit the nail will what I say what's the expression the nail on the coffin

0:59.5

something like that yeah but you get what I'm saying when I was younger I love CNN mainly because

1:05.1

this is a little bit skewed to me and self-promotional when I I was young, I lived in a hotel in Seattle. You

1:14.3

remember that, right? You've been to it a long time ago. I had a condo in a hotel. Olive 8 by

1:18.0

Hyatt. And they wrote an article about that. And I got tons of press around the home page.

1:22.6

And that was cool, whatever. I got on also one of their TV shows and it was a business segment

1:27.3

during Thanksgiving

1:28.0

years and years ago.

1:29.6

So overall, I had a good experience with CNN.

1:31.9

The reason I'm not a fan of CNN isn't because of what they do or they don't do from

1:38.5

a general perspective of people saying it's fake news or not.

1:42.1

I stopped liking CNN because they said I was running for

1:45.8

senator or governor or something. And they took my picture and put it on and said it was me who's

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