When I launched BoardGameWire at the end of April, I told myself I\u2019d give it six months of hard work to see if what I strongly believed was, in fact, true – that despite the global board game industry growing to a vast size in the last decade or so, there was still a gaping hole for professional, industry-focused journalism that went beyond reviews and the announcement of new games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I genuinely couldn\u2019t have dreamed that the response would be so strong. More than 80,000 readers<\/strong> have visited BoardGameWire since launch – CEOs, publishers, game designers, artists, marketing professionals and hordes of interested consumers – keen to check in on our breaking news, in-depth features and what I hope is insightful, thoughtful reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our goal has been simple, if not simple to do: provide the very best board game news coverage that people within the industry – and the general public – want to read. No clickbait, no SEO manipulation – just well researched, professionally reported articles which look to shine a light on underreported parts of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you joined us later in the year, here\u2019s a very small snapshot of what I think is some of the best reporting we\u2019ve done so far. I\u2019m proud of every single one of these articles – especially as the vast majority of these stories wouldn\u2019t have seen the light of day without BoardGameWire:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to thank you as a BoardGameWire reader for helping make the site such a success this year – and to ask for your help to grow our reporting in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I run BoardGameWire completely solo, in the spare time I can carve out around my business journalism day job and rushing around after two kids. I love doing it, and am elated at the huge interest there\u2019s been in our reporting so far. I\u2019ve got big plans to expand the site in 2024 – with enough support I can transition to full time, bring on other reporters and dig deeper into stories currently not seeing the light of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that\u2019s where you come in. If you value what BoardGameWire is doing, please consider supporting us on Patreon<\/a><\/strong>, or becoming a paid subscriber to our newsletter<\/a><\/strong>. Tell your colleagues! Your business contacts, your friends interested in the industry – forward them our newsletter<\/a><\/strong> and ask them to sign up. If you\u2019re a board game executive, publisher or a service provider, and want to get your business in front of a huge audience of board game professionals – please consider sponsorship or advertising with us<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n With your help, I\u2019m confident BoardGameWire will go from strength to strength next year. Have a wonderful holiday period, stay safe, and I\u2019ll see you again here in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merry Christmas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike Didymus-True – Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 80,000 readers have visited BoardGameWire since launch – CEOs, publishers, game designers, artists, marketing professionals and hordes of interested consumers – keen to check in on our breaking news, in-depth features and what I hope is insightful, thoughtful reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[578,345,577,574,575,576],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-best-of-2023","tag-boardgamewire","tag-newsletter","tag-readers","tag-readership","tag-support"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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