I am biased because the site's existence is pretty much the signal achievement of my professional life, but this was an excellent week of posts at Defector. I am proud of how good and how varied it was, and that we're still getting better. If you want to subscribe, you should: defector.com/products
i'm not unbiased but i don't financially benefit from the site existing and i'd say that it's one of the best websites out there. just behind wikipedia and all the ones with porn i like
I’ve been a subscriber from the beginning. I didn’t follow deadspin back in the day but when I saw what happened and how you all responded to it, I knew I had to support y’all.
It has been an experience in spite purchase for me. I would have spent $90 to just say fuck you to all that G/O Media represented and never read the thing if necessary. As it stands I won't challenge the autobill until it hits around $175. Still not going to read about soccer or the National League.
Oh sure soccer and the NL go straight under the bus when the money's right, eh? Shameful. Hope you can sleep at night in your golden bed made out of money (the money is the stuffing part, the gold is the frame, obviously) knowing what a total sellout you are.
I’m still hoping for a Defector Disc Golf shirt. I feel like there are some real ironic possibilities there. Along with some, uh, non ironic possibilities for at least one person.
as a returning defector subscriber (subscribed from launch until 2022, when i went back to grad school and Stopped Having Money, came back this fall bc i could afford the winback price) i am astonished by how, somehow, the site is even better than it was when i left two years ago!!
should also note that i am a Non Sports Person strictly and i still find myself spending at least half an hour on defector every day reading the arts+culture/politics/Takes articles and backlog
i'm not sure what your internal metrics say about the winback rates, but i have to assume that my data point of "oh, wow, i can get a year of defector for the cost of three falafel wraps from the fancy falafel place on lyndale? i will do that" is common!! it's an incredible product for the price!
Yeah, that was more or less the idea and the campaign did well. I want the cost to remain in the "calculable in numbers of nice falafel experiences" range.
I thought the same. One of the best values out there! I am probably not your expected demographic. I don’t even really follow sports and signed up for the politics and culture but I read everything. The writing is excellent!
I love what you guys are doing. It’s my favourite annual subscription I have. May I make a request? As a deranged Mets fan, can you do a weekly John Gibbons update?
You can pry my subscription from my irradiated, bloated corpse simply because I firmly believe this will never, ever happen. Defector is as close as we'll get to a genuine media partnership of just some fuckheads who write for the sake of writing and nothing else
It's amazing that a business model involving having the revenue column higher than the expenses column can not only survive but improve. Some big MBA school should do a case study on this.
The first time I ordered a defector shirt the fulfillment got screwed up and they sent me a DSA shirt instead. Feels a little bit like stolen valor to wear it but, what, I’m going to laundry before I have to?
Never was a Deadspin person but liked your work with Jeb on Christmastown and wanted to support what I felt was an important step in a move to new models for journalism. 3+ years later I am still subscribed and read it every day.
