Podcast Episodes

She built three successful media ventures from the ground up

Alexis Grant didn't start her career with the goal of building several media businesses. She simply wanted work as a reporter. After college, she got…

6 years, 2 months ago

How the site Amazing Ribs amassed 15,000 paying subscribers

Because I write and podcast so much about the business of media, I regularly get emails from founders of niche media companies who want to tell me ab…

6 years, 2 months ago

Why every comedian hosts a podcast

If you wanted to become a professional standup comedian in the 1990s, the path was pretty straightforward. You started by going to amateur open mic n…

6 years, 2 months ago

A publishing platform built for independent writers

Let's say you're a writer who wants to publish your work to the web and eventually monetize it. These days you have plenty of options. You might open…

6 years, 3 months ago

This guy built a B2B media empire

When we talk about the media industry, we're usually discussing publishers that are geared toward a broad audience -- outlets like The New York Times…

6 years, 3 months ago

How BuzzFeed is monetizing its travel vertical

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has expressed a lot of frustration with the large platforms that dominate our online browsing. In 2018, for instance, he c…

6 years, 3 months ago

How to convert your audience into paying subscribers

It's been nearly a decade since The New York Times launched its metered paywall, and its success has spurred just about every digital publisher to te…

6 years, 4 months ago

Why Twitter is launching its own podcasts

In its most recent earnings report, Twitter revealed that it has over 139 million daily users, but the company's first podcast it launched in 2019 wa…

6 years, 4 months ago

How I plan to monetize this podcast

Where you can subscribe to my newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/p/discount

So this is the 68th episode of my podcast, and if you've been li…

6 years, 4 months ago

How Axios tries to create truly differentiated content

There are few people as knowledgeable about web publishing as Scott Rosenberg. In 1995, he and a group of other San Francisco Examiner journalists la…

6 years, 5 months ago