Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow The Dispatch is diversifying beyond just subscription revenue
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The Dispatch was launched in 2020 with a pretty straightforward thesis: that people would pay for quality, fact-based journalism. It certainly had …
Published on 7 months ago
Mill Media proved that audiences would pay for local news
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When the Manchester Mill launched in 2020, it operated on a simple theory: that local audiences would pay for news as long as it was original and diff…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
This Colorado food writer came up with a novel way to monetize his content
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When Matthew Schniper launched his Colorado Springs food newsletter in 2023, he ran into a problem many local news entrepreneurs face: he didn’t have…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
How 1440 scaled its newsletter to 4 million subscribers
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What’s the true monetary value of a newsletter subscriber? Tim Huelskamp knows the answer to that question. As the co-founder of the 1440 newsletter, h…
Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago
How Scott Porch helps podcasters grow and monetize their audiences
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2024 was a big year for the podcast industry. Not only were there several huge deals signed, but podcasts wielded significant influence in the US pre…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
How the Money for the Rest of Us podcast built a six figure membership platform
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David Stein had an innovative marketing hack for growing his investing podcast called Money for the Rest of Us. He put the names of other popular fin…
Published on 9 months ago
How Ben Cohen successfully pivoted from advertising to a subscription-based business model
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In 2017, Ben Cohen was living the dream. His politics news site The Daily Banter was generating over 6 million visits a month and enough advertising …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
How Eric Newcomer used his newsletter to launch a $1.5 million events business
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Like a lot of journalists=turned-media–entrepreneurs, Eric Newcomer decided to launch a paid newsletter after leaving his job at Bloomberg in 2020. T…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
How the KC Sports Network is building a regional media empire
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The last few years have been pretty good to the Kansas City Chiefs, what with its multiple Super Bowl championships and a close association with the …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
How Lon Seidman used his tech YouTube channel to build a huge affiliate business
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Lon Seidman doesn’t operate the largest gadget YouTube channel in the world, but he doesn’t need to in order to run a successful media business. That…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago