If you are not aware of it those medias can be as well paid, so call it just marketing, nothing else. Resources like Forbes or any other business papers write about you only if you are already super cool, or just paid them.
This project will be interesting for them when developed, but now it needs lots of work still to do
How important is the "fact" you present here? Who cares about forbes or business insider? Do you know how weak the content is they mostly produce about the crypto world? It's utter nonsense what they write but you take it as a bench mark for crypto projects. Good luck dude!
Absolutely agree with you, it's impossible to read sh*t that they write in paid ico articles. So I don`t even pay attention to the fact are there any articles about ico in mass media or not.