Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan this betting app replace the Nate Silvers of the world?
Name just about any media beat, and you'll find plenty of people trying to predict the future. Political pundits argue over who will win the next ele…
7 years, 7 months ago
A new study on why we pay for online news
Subscriptions are all the rage in the media industry right now. Facing diminishing ad rates, publishers have turned to the paid subscription model as…
7 years, 7 months ago
He sold his blog network to AOL for $25 million. And that was just the beginning
You can't write a history of Web 2.0 without including the contributions of Brian Alvey. After getting his start doing design work for traditional pu…
7 years, 7 months ago
This editorial newsletter platform has 25,000 paying subscribers
In 2014, Ben Thompson, a blogger who writes about the business of technology, announced he was quitting his job so he could write full time. His busi…
7 years, 7 months ago
This nutritionist generated 35 million downloads of her podcast. Here's how she did it
Monica Reinagel had no background in broadcasting or radio when she launched a podcast called Nutrition Diva in 2008, but she was a trained nutrition…
7 years, 8 months ago
Most people don't click on social media links. Here's why that's bad
Just about everyone's experienced a scenario like this: you read a highly-nuanced article on a topic you find interesting. You then decide to share i…
7 years, 8 months ago
How The Hustle reached 1 million email subscribers
Sam Parr never set out to launch a media company. A few years ago, he was fresh from selling a company he had founded and was looking for something e…
7 years, 8 months ago
How Slate built a live events business around its most popular podcasts
While it seems like every publisher, from The New York Times to Vox, is making significant investments in podcasting, one could argue that Slate was …
7 years, 8 months ago
This webcomic artist has 1 million fans on Facebook. Here's how he got them
Chris Grady didn't know much about the webcomic world when he launched Lunarbaboon, a semi-autobiographical comic about family and parenthood. But sh…
7 years, 9 months ago
Why Quartz launched a newsletter that dives into obscure trivia
Would you read a 1,300-word newsletter about garden sheds? What about a 1,400-word piece on lettuce? A little over a year ago, the business-focused p…
7 years, 9 months ago