Podcast Episodes

How Lucas Grindley helped Next City grow to 1,000 paying members

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Lucas Grindley knows something about building sustainable revenue streams for media co…

2 years, 5 months ago

Will Spotify's audiobook streaming be good for authors?

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It's been nearly five years since Spotify announced it would diversify its audio offeri…

2 years, 5 months ago

How Gabe Fleisher built Wake Up To Politics, a daily newsletter with over 50,000 subscribers

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There are plenty of popular politics newsletters out there, but none with the kind of …

2 years, 5 months ago

The biggest difference between the Creator Economy and traditional media

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Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: "Ask me …

2 years, 6 months ago

Will Buzzfeed file for bankruptcy in 2024?

It's been a bad few years for Buzzfeed. After a disastrous IPO in 2022, it's faced a tanking stock price, declining revenue, and a shutdown of its ne…

2 years, 6 months ago

How Kelsey Ogletree built Pitchcraft, a membership community for PR pros

How do you write about the travel industry when people can't fly on airplanes? That's a question Kelsey Ogletree had to ask herself in 2020 at the be…

2 years, 6 months ago

How Ash Read built Living Cozy, a product review site monetized with ecommerce

Ash Read didn't launch a review website about household products because of some lifelong interest in home decor; instead, his interest came about si…

2 years, 7 months ago

How Dylan Bowman built Freetrail, a media outlet for trail runners

For most of his career as professional ultra marathoner, Dylan Bowman didn't have much of an online presence, but in 2019, he suddenly found himself …

2 years, 7 months ago

How B2B publisher Skift scaled its business by diversifying its revenue streams

In 2011, Rafat Ali launched Skift, a B2B publisher that covers the travel industry. At first, Skift was mainly monetized with advertising, but Rafat …

2 years, 10 months ago

How Starter Story ditched recurring payments and built a $1.5 million information product

Patrick Walls is the founder of Starter Story, an outlet that's published thousands of case studies on how entrepreneurs built successful businesses.…

2 years, 10 months ago