Podcast Episodes

How publishers monetize their newsletters with paid subscriptions

There's no question that newsletters are on the rise. Legacy publishers are constantly launching new newsletter products. Quartz's Obsession newslett…

8 years, 1 month ago

How artists illegally pay their way onto Spotify's playlists

With over 150 million users, Spotify has the ability to launch the careers of previously-unknown music artists. It does this by featuring these artis…

8 years, 2 months ago

Influencer marketing has a huge fraud problem

The influencer marketing industry is estimated to generate $2 billion a year, with $1.6 billion coming from Instagram influencers alone. That number …

8 years, 2 months ago

How Think Progress generated $500,000 in donations after Trump was elected

Think Progress was founded in 2005 as an offshoot of the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. What started as a bloggy website has…

8 years, 2 months ago

Remembering the blogosphere before the rise of Facebook and Twitter

Technorati rankings. Full RSS feeds vs partial RSS feeds. Blogrolls. The Techmeme leaderboards. Blogspot vs Wordpress vs Typepad. If you were a blogg…

8 years, 2 months ago

What's behind the explosion in fiction podcasts?

Welcome to Night Vale. The Message. Steal the Stars. Homecoming. The Bright Sessions. All are fiction podcasts that have seen downloads in the millio…

8 years, 3 months ago

Why podcast apps are developing their own original content

Podcasting as a medium has been around for about 13 years now, and for most of that time you'd find that most podcasts were platform agnostic. When a…

8 years, 3 months ago

Should famous music and Hollywood artists have their own media outlet?

In 2014, former Major League Baseball player Derek Jeter launched a media company with a novel premise. Called The Players' Tribune, it's a sports si…

8 years, 3 months ago

How the iTunes podcast rankings work

If you want to subscribe and listen to podcasts, there are dozens of apps to choose from, including podcast-specific apps like Stitcher and even musi…

8 years, 3 months ago

Meet the guy who wants to slow down the internet

This week I interviewed a guy named Ernie Smith.

Why do I think Smith is so fascinating? Because over the past decade he's created two successful med…

8 years, 4 months ago