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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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.