What does it say when a brand ghosts its online community…and the community moves on without it?

Patti Podnar
4 min readOct 19, 2020

What happened when Fine Cooking disappeared overnight

A ghostly image with the text “When you ghost your online community and they move on without you.

This story of a marketing fail began when the Fine Cooking website, which I had visited just the day before, suddenly redirected me to Food and Wine. No landing page, no pop-up notification, and no response to the Tweets I sent to both publications…

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Patti Podnar

Wife, mother, and content marketing consultant. Discovering and enjoying life as a work-from-home business owner while #50ishwithafullnest.