A former CNN executive wants to take on YouTube with his own app
Source: Business Insider ·
The startup world is littered with companies that tried to become the next YouTube. Andrew Morse is trying it again with his startup.
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Andrew Morse ran digital for CNN, then spent more than three years running The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Now he's cofounded Phareo, a platform aimed at creators and people who like them.Andrew MorseThe startup world is littered with companies that tried to become the next YouTube.Andrew Morse is trying it again, anyway.Morse's pitch: a curated app that gives creators incentives a reason to give it exclusive content.Are you sick of the algorithms that serve you video on giant platforms like YouTube and TikTok?Or are you a video-maker who's sick of the algorithms that don't serve your stuff to would-be watchers?Andrew Morse would like to talk to you.Morse, who spent years working in big media (Bloomberg, CNN) and most recently in local news (The Atlanta Journal-Constution), is building Phareo, a startup he hopes will one day rival internet media heavyweights. The secret sauce, he says: his own AI-powered discovery engine that will make both video-watchers and video-makers…