Episodes
May 1, 2024
Should Podcasters Care About the IAB?
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) can be a confusing organization for the podcasting industry. They’re an influential player that many recognize by name, but it's often not clear to the everyday podcaster what they ac…
April 17, 2024
Mission-Driven Development with Wonder Media Network’s Emily Rudder
Wonder Media Network was founded in 2018 to “introduce empathy into politics, business, and culture.” Since then, they’ve grown into a sizable independent network, creating award-winning originals and branded series for clie…
April 3, 2024
Slate’s Most Profitable Year Ever with VP of Audio Alicia Montgomery
The 27-year-old Slate Magazine just had its most profitable year ever, and it credits podcasting for much of its success. Slate has been publishing podcasts since the 2005 launch of Political Gabfest, and they’ve built on th…
March 20, 2024
Building a Podcasting Cooperative with Maximum Fun CEO Bikram Chatterji
In March of 2023 the podcast agency Maximum Fun announced the company would convert to a worker-owned model. At the same time, Maximum Fun’s founder, Jesse Thorn, would be stepping down as CEO after nearly 20 years at the co…
March 6, 2024
Tenderfoot TV in 2024 with CEO Donald Albright
Since the launch of Up and Vanished Season 1 in 2016, Tenderfoot TV has steadily grown into one of the most important companies in the podcast industry.
To explain how Tenderfoot TV got to where it is today, CEO Donald Al…
Feb. 21, 2024
The Bull Case for Podcasting with DWNLOAD Media’s Chris Peterson
Chris Peterson is betting big on the podcast industry in 2024. The ex-iHeart executive founded DWNLOAD Media, a podcast roll-up aimed at buying and operationalizing existing podcast companies to compete with the giants in th…
Feb. 7, 2024
Running a Small but Mighty Podcast Operation with Podcamp Media’s Dusty Weis
Today I’m chatting with Dusty Weis, Founder and President of the B2B podcast production company Podcamp Media. Podcamp is a small but mighty firm based in Wisconsin. They largely works with companies, brands, and trade assoc…
Jan. 10, 2024
QCODE Media’s Steve Wilson on Bringing “Prestige” to Fiction Podcasts
The antiquated radio drama is making a comeback, now rebranded as “fiction podcasts,” and agencies like QCODE Media are leading the way in making these shows marquee programming. Their production is up there with the best, t…
Jan. 3, 2024
The State of the Audiobook Industry
Today we’re shifting our focus away from podcasts and toward its sister industry: audiobooks. While the explosive growth of podcasting has dominated headlines in the audio world, the audiobooks market has slowly and steadily…
Dec. 20, 2023
Double Elvis’s Brady Sadler and the Business Behind Disgraceland
Music and podcasting, in many ways, are a natural combo. Today, they’re often even consumed on the same platform. The music podcast subgenre is brimming with opportunity for interesting new collaborations, formats, and techn…
Dec. 13, 2023
Why Audacy’s Jenna Weiss-Berman is Optimistic About the Podcast Industry
2023 has been a tough year for a lot of people in the podcast industry. Years of investment in the space looks to be slowing down, and dozens of companies are reeling because of it. It’s clear to most that the business side …
Dec. 6, 2023
Studio Ochenta CEO Lory Martinez on Adapting Podcasts for an International Market
Like the rest of the world, podcasting is becoming a global business. However here in the Anglophone world, we don’t hear much about what’s going on in other podcasting markets like LATAM, India, China, let alone create cont…
Nov. 29, 2023
Magnificent Noise’s Eric Nuzum on Covering Audio as an Industry Insider
Eric Nuzum has been on the front lines of the audio industry for more than 20 years. He was the man who helped NPR move into the podcast space, before heading to Audible to lead their original podcast development. Today, he …
Nov. 15, 2023
Quill and CoHost’s Fatima Zaidi on the Future of Distributing Branded Podcasts
How do you reach your target audience? While this is a challenge for all podcasters, it’s especially important in the branded podcast space, where it’s often not always obvious who your listener is, let alone how to make a s…
Nov. 8, 2023
Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta on Building an Audio Industry
In 2020 Bryan Barletta founded Sounds Profitable – a company committed to setting the course of the audio business by creating free educational materials, research, and connecting different players in the industry. Today I’m…
Nov. 1, 2023
Lemonada Media CEO Jessica Cordova Kramer on the State of the Network
Lemonada Media launched as a brand new podcast network with just one show in 2019. Just four years later, they've grown into a network of nearly 50 podcasts known for pumping out audio hits – Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-D…
Oct. 25, 2023
HubSpot’s Jonathan Barshop on Podcast Growth and Doing Video Right
In 2021 HubSpot made a surprising move to acquire The Hustle, a newsletter along with the My First Million podcast. The Hustle and MFM eventually became the base of what today is the HubSpot Podcast Network, an audio unit wi…
Oct. 18, 2023
iHeartMedia’s Amber Smith on What is Ruby?
This year the podcasting giant iHeartMedia launched a new division called Ruby, which works exclusively to create and amplify podcasts for brands. To understand why iHeart made this move and what Ruby is up to, today I’m cha…
Oct. 11, 2023
Media War & Peace’s Evan Shapiro on Podcasting in the Media Universe
Evan Shapiro writes the newsletter “Media War and Peace” where he maps out the state of the media industry using data visualization models. He’s also a professor at NYU and used to work in podcast and television development …
Oct. 4, 2023
DCP Entertainment’s Chris Colbert on How Podcasting Can Move Past Lip Service
In 2017 after stints at SiriusXM and Audacy, Chris Colbert founded his own podcast agency, DCP Entertainment. DCP defines itself as a media platform for underrepresented voices, including people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ c…
Sept. 27, 2023
Alex Goldman, Amrita Khalid, and Rachael King on the Past, Present, and Future of the Podcast Industry
Is the podcast industry at the end of an era? The beginning of a new one? Or are we just seeing the natural ups and downs of a developing market? Today’s episode collects a panel of industry experts to weigh in on this disco…
Sept. 20, 2023
From "Presidential" to "Field Trip" with the Washington Post's Lillian Cunningham
The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham produced, wrote, and hosted one of the Washington Post’s first podcasts: Presidential, a series about the history of the American presidents. Despite the show being Lillian and The Po…
Sept. 13, 2023
Operationalizing All Things Comedy with Russell Weissman
In 2017 Russell Weissman joined All Things Comedy as an early employee, and was recently promoted to COO. He’s been a key figure in guiding the company’s growth. Today All Things Comedy is one of the largest podcast networks…
Sept. 6, 2023
Building the IMDB of Podcasts with Podchaser's Bradley Davis
Back in 2017 Bradley Davis and a small team founded Podchaser, a company that has since become a leading database for podcast discovery – it’s widely been called the “IMDB of podcasting.”