• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Depending on the context of the business, it could also mean exploring new product categories, like a bicycle maker deciding to get into the skateboard market because it happens to be popular. Or in the context of an online news website, a “vertical” is whether you are writing about tech, or health, or pop culture, etc…

    When I wrote for MUO (very briefly) I was assigned to the creative software “vertical”; writing articles about video editing software, updates to different paint/art programs, etc…

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      1 month ago

      This is the correct answer, but I wanted to be silly.

      Also, it makes sense that an ellipsis as a single character exists, but I’ve never seen it before. It’s blowing my mind.