ANOTHER DIGITAL NEWS CASUALTY: THE SPANISH SOITU.ES IS OUT

Files under General | Oct 27th

gumer-lafuente

His founder, Gumersindo Lafuente, was the former editor of elmundo.es

Today he announced that soitu.es, one of the most innovative online-only publications in Spain, 22 month after its launch, is out.

Why?

Lost a lot of money and was, I’m sorry, irrelevant.

That’s all.

UPDATE:

In Rue89 AFP’s Eric Scherer says that there three lessons to be learned from the death of soitu.es

1. Don’t depend only from one shareholder (specially if it is a bank)

2. Start small.

3. Don’t depend only from advertising.

Well soitu.es made all these three mistakes.


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