The 3 Best The Business of Content Podcast Episodes
1) How The Hustle reached 1 million email subscribers
I interviewed Sam Parr about what strategies he used to grow the Hustle's subscriber base, how his editorial team goes about picking daily topics, and what kind of companies like to advertise on a new...Show More
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Everything about this episode was interesting. The best part was what the naked truth he throws around ✅ Email is the universal most pow...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) 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 launched Salon.com, one of the first online magazines...Show More
3) He ran the newsletter strategy for BuzzFeed and The New Yorker
Dan Oshinsky didn’t apply for an open position to run BuzzFeed’s newsletter operations. He just happened to reach out to editor Ben Smith back when BuzzFeed was hiring a bunch of people with weird int...Show More
4) How a professional sailing league built massive reach on YouTube and social media
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ SailGP is only a little over five years old, and yet the competitive sailing league has already built out a substantial fan base all across the world....Show More
5) This Stanford lecturer co-hosts one of the most popular design podcasts
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter launched the Design Better podcast, they did it on behalf of InVision, a tech platform used by designers and other ...Show More
6) How a PR consultant launched a thriving tech news outlet
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ When Kevin Raposo launched KnowTechie in 2014, he had no idea it would grow into a thriving tech news outlet – he just wanted journalists to answer hi...Show More
7) How two Hollywood writers launched one of the most popular parenting podcasts
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ By the time Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables came together to launch a parenting podcast in 2016, both had already achieved some mainstream success in tr...Show More
8) How a former 60 Minutes producer raised six figures to launch a LGBTQ-focused media outlet
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Spencer Macnaughton doesn’t believe there’s a lack of LGBTQ-focused journalism in the mainstream media; as a former producer for both 60 Minutes and t...Show More
9) How the Pantsuit Politics podcast built a huge audience outside the DC beltway
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ You’ve probably seen headlines by now declaring 2024 to be the podcast election. It certainly did seem like a breaking out point that established podc...Show More
10) He disrupted the viral video clip economy — and is now doing the same in travel media
My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Jonathan Skogmo has been working with user generated content since before the term “user generated content” even existed. Back in the 2000s, he moved ...Show More