The Platform-Publisher Race Is Heating Up and LinkedIn is Gaining

By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOM

Everywhere you look, a social platform of some kind is either looking to become a publisher or has already done so, whether it’s by hiring writers and editors, as Medium has, or by encouraging media companies to allow their content to live on its platform, as both Snapchat and Facebook do. While other platforms get most of the publicity, however, there is one player on the field that seems to be consistently underestimated as a competitor, and that’s LinkedIn.