DIGIDAY. September 13, 2016. A number of ad-tech purchases, including MySpace parent Viant, put Time Inc in position to offer advertisers all the targeting and automation capabilities that advertisers now expect. “It was gutsy to move away from a print-based, ad-driven model into a digital, scale-driven model,” said Peter A. Kreisky, a longtime publishing consultant who worked as an advisor to Jack Griffin when Griffin led Time Inc. “Taking the risk that Time Inc brands would add value and margin to the prices that Time Inc could command in programmatic. “Buying Viant is a big change to the business model.” How much Time Inc. will be able to build on any of these moves is unclear. But Battista and his colleagues have a foundation to build on now. “Jeff Bewkes made a very wise choice in bringing Joe in,” Kreisky said. “He was the right guy at the right time.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL. April 3, 2016. “It’s hard to understand why one would give up the revenue from 700 pages of advertising,” said media industry consultant Peter Kreisky.

LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL. March 25, 2016. Peter Kreisky, founder of Kreisky Media Consultancy in New York, said Friday that while the timing of the announcement was unexpected, it was long overdue. “As long as (Hugh) Hefner was around, the enterprise was print-centric, so I am surprised that it took (the firm) so long to realize that it passed its sell-by date,” he said. “With the right buyer, however, Playboy could retain its great value in the hands of new management who can breathe new life into it with a different and more modern approach.”

NEW YORK POST. February 5, 2016. “Creating a shared services unit like this for print is a very smart move in an industry now defined by content and audience across many platforms,” said industry consultant Peter Kreisky.

WALL STREET JOURNAL. February 2, 2016. "The economics of single-title publishers have been dicey for a long while,” says Peter Kreisky, a media industry consultant. “One of the paths forward is to be niche, with intense reader engagement and a modest cost structure.”

DIGIDAY, JAN 26, 2016. “Data-driven journalism is the new hot thing. It’s a burgeoning field,” said Peter Kreisky, founder of Kreisky Media Consultancy, who compared Morning Consult’s approach to similar data-driven efforts at FiveThirtyEight and The Upshot. But the business model around the approach is still unproven. “As to Morning Consult scaling the model and competing effectively, the jury’s out,” he said.

DIGIDAY, Jan 12, 2016. “Both the audience and the brand itself are self-limiting,” said Peter Kreisky, chairman of the Kreisky Media Consultancy. “Hughes fell in love with an idea for its future that was not actionable or practical.”…“He didn’t have the long-term vision. You have to be very patient with building media companies, and he wasn’t,” said Kreisky

BOSTON HERALD, Jan 9 2016. Media industry advisor Peter Kreisky: It's a “jewel"...“It’s an extremely well-run company with a great business strategy, and they’ve made a very impressive transformation from print, which is their history, to digital — very profitably, too,” he said. “There’s some big players out there who might find it very attractive.”