Podcast Episodes

Spotify is the newly crowned king of podcasting

Over the past several weeks, Spotify made several major announcements in the podcast space.

It opened up its advertising ecosystem to anyone who host…

4 years, 8 months ago

How Google collaborates with news publishers

Google has a long and complicated relationship with news publishers. On the one hand, it sends billions of visitors to their websites every year thro…

4 years, 8 months ago

The Juggernaut is hyper focused on an underrepresented market

Snigdha Sur's first idea for a media startup was a kind of Netflix-for-Bollywood streaming service, but when she spoke to investors about the idea, t…

4 years, 9 months ago

Content creators are charging their fans for text messages

Most subscription strategies have a pretty straightforward value exchange: in exchange for a monthly payment, the subscriber gains access to premium …

4 years, 10 months ago

Yes, I'm still here

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4 years, 11 months ago

How the Art of Manliness monetizes its loyal audience

Most major media companies are focused on scale. They want to reach ever larger audiences and then leverage that reach to drive more revenue. To acco…

5 years, 1 month ago

How Mental Floss evolved over its 20-year history

In the spirit of Mental Floss's 20th anniversary, let me give you a few pieces of trivia about the magazine. It made a cameo in two episodes of Frien…

5 years, 1 month ago

He writes one of Hollywood's most influential newsletters

By the time Richard Rushfield launched his newsletter The Ankler in 2017, he had held journalism jobs at several major media companies that included …

5 years, 2 months ago

His daily podcast got 5 million downloads in its first year

If you're in the media, then you're probably aware of The Daily, the massively successful podcast produced by The New York Times. It now receives ove…

5 years, 2 months ago

How to form a podcast collective

If you look at the Apple and Spotify podcast charts that track the most downloaded shows every week, you'll notice that many of the most popular podc…

5 years, 2 months ago