Bill Simmons announces 'The Ringer' website

Logo is hideous.

I do miss Simmons armchar analysis though.

Hope Zach Lowe doesn't join so I don't have to support it.

Ugly ugly logo...

Bill Simmons plz

The logo is so bad

Bill said on the podcast that they are sending out a newsletter so they have a place to put their thoughts while their website is being built...

why don't they just put up a wordpress blog or tumblr in the meantime instead of emailing me shit lol

Yea, they could do something like The Verge with This is My Next.

Wack ass name

I do miss Grantland tho

please tell me no one got paid to make that "logo"

Oh god even the logo looks like it's ready to ride the Celtics nuts

shit name. shit logo. but hook it straight to my veins if it's even half as good as Grantland.

By Zeus Ex Machina Go To PostOh god even the logo looks like it's ready to ride the Celtics nuts

lmao

That logo who why what the fuck. And those bolts are the worst.

Good to know I can avoid this unless Lowe is involved

Hopefully they contain that hack Shoemaker there too

I get that Simmons is trying to create an empire but "Jam Session" is vapid fucking garbage that embodies every shitty "lol females" cliche in existence.

I think Jam Session is great. They've got great chemistry and they make me laugh.

By HasphatsAnts Go To PostI think Jam Session is great. They've got great chemistry and they make me laugh.

Yeah, I don't care about 99% of the stuff they talk about but I find it enjoyable to listen to. I enjoyed Litman's podcasts with Jacoby on Grantland more though. #BringBackFoodNews

Now that the website has been around for a while and they've had enough time to get into a groove, what does everyone think of their site?

I personally think it's inferior in content to Grantland, but that maybe nostalgia talking. I also feel like the UI was designed for the Snapchat crowd. It's very... immature.

I like their politics podcast, Keepin' it 1600. Their basketball pod started as awful celebrity gossip stuff trying to guess which players were really besties and who wasn't invited to come along to which clubs. Fortunately they switched up the people on it and now it seems to be about basketball.

I only occasionally read their articles because the site's design is painful to look at. Content-wise it's not Grantland, but it can't be until it gets a bigger budget. All those A-list thinkpiece authors didn't come cheap.

The articles were so short in the beginning that I just stopped going to the site. Even the good ones seemed worthless because they were over by the time they hooked you. Now I only go to the site if I get linked to a funny Shea Serrano piece.

I enjoy a lot of the podcasts though.

Perhaps misunderstood by some of its critics, Simmons’ new HBO-funded website, The Ringer, retains much of Grantland’s DNA (former Grantlanders Serrano, Shoemaker, Baker, Juliet Litman, Chris Ryan and editor Sean Fennessey have reunited with their old boss) but it can’t lean on ESPN’s infrastructure in the way Grantland could; there’s no nuts and bolts game recaps, nor straighter, more traditional and news reportage on the site to give writers the same time and creative breathing space.

At the Ringer, if a big-time boxing bout finishes late on Saturday night, it is written about immediately, not the following Monday, as was often the case at Grantland. Much of the content is shorter, reacting more quickly to the news cycle. In other words, there are slightly fewer sprawling Japanese gonzo epics loosely related to sumo wrestling, slightly more instantaneous opinion on topics as varied as Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win or Russell Westbrook’s latest fashion travesty, and yet the new site is still home for fictitious oral histories of Space Jam and deep dives into the eerie prescience of Hank Scorpio, a one-episode Simpsons character from 20 years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/19/ive-never-met-an-editor-like-him-bryan-curtis-on-bill-simmons-and-grantland

Bill Simmons is taking another step on his winding path through the annals of sports journalism.

The internet iconoclast has signed a deal to move his sports and culture website, the Ringer, off Medium and onto Vox Media’s platform, Vox executives have announced.

While Mr. Simmons will maintain ownership of the site he launched last summer, the Ringer will become part of the portfolio of brands Vox offers to marketers alongside its own properties like SB Nation, the Verge and Eater.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-simmons-signs-deal-to-move-sports-site-to-vox-media-1496138402

Why Vox may be able to revive The Ringer, even though its traffic has plummeted

There is one very good reason why The Ringer is ditching Medium for Vox Media. Traffic to the Bill Simmons-founded site has been anemic and slipping since it launched about a year ago.

According to comScore, the sports and pop culture-oriented site reached just 357,000 unique visitors in April. That's down from roughly 1.2 million unique visitors in July of 2016 just after the site went live. In February, traffic had dipped to just 316,000 visitors.

The Ringer will soon begin publishing using Vox's technology platform. And Vox will sell ads for The Ringer, with the two companies sharing the revenue, the Wall Street Journal reported.

http://www.businessinsider.com/one-reason-the-ringer-may-be-ditching-medium-for-vox-is-that-traffic-was-slipping-2017-5

Couldn't tell you the last thing I looked at on The Ringer. At least I used to read all the Lowe stuff on Grantland.

I've probably read more stuff on BR Mag than The Ringer in the last year

I mean, i listen to ringer pods all the time. like right now.

but only the bill simmons ones. They must have about 50 pods going now.

Woah, this is a thing?

Also, Tea ;_;