podcasts: past, present and future
“I think of those Vanity Fair days as the dinosaur days. They were the great days of Condé Nast, and they were so much fun. It wasn't just about the expense accounts, it was about the freedom and joy of only having to really think about the content, the hiring of the writers, how your cover was going to look, and what was going to be in the magazin... See more
Tina Brown on intellectual serendipity, the Elon Musk era and why "magazines are mostly done"
“Community is what happens when you do what you love together.”
– Pete Davis
- The live stream for The Rest is Politics ▸ during the presidential election saw 2mn views over an 18-hour period. The podcast got an additional 600,000 downloads during that time. You can catch up with part one and part two; and on Spotify. It was produced by Dizplai at Spotify’s NYC studios.
Podcast ads are “too difficult to buy”
Finding extraordinary stories on park benches
Tom Rosenthal wanders London's parks with a simple mission: find someone sitting alone on a bench and ask if they'll chat for his podcast, his podcast "Strangers on a Bench." He keeps his guests anonymous - no names, no workplaces. Listening to a few episodes hammered home the realization that there's n... See more
Tom Rosenthal wanders London's parks with a simple mission: find someone sitting alone on a bench and ask if they'll chat for his podcast, his podcast "Strangers on a Bench." He keeps his guests anonymous - no names, no workplaces. Listening to a few episodes hammered home the realization that there's n... See more
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The conservative media landscape in the United States is exceptionally well-funded, meticulously constructed, and highly coordinated. Wealthy donors, PACs, and corporations with a vested interest in preserving or expanding conservative policies strategically invest in right-wing media channels and up and coming content creators.
This creates a well... See more
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Why Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan
Podcasting is a medium made for this kind of storytelling; if journalism is, as someone once said, “the first draft of history”, then maybe podcasting is the second. As a medium, it has a wider intellectual bandwidth than broadcasting, which has to address mass audiences, whereas podcasting can serve niche interests and make more assumptions about ... See more
John Naughton • The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton
The creator economy is in its early days, really. The mass adoption of television occurred in the 1950s, and the creator economy started in earnest around 2010, so we’re just about 15 years into it. It’s concerning that these media executives think they are superior to it and have a better way of operating, when they obviously do not. They should b... See more
Amy Odell • Media Industry to Repeat History
The Talk Tuah podcast is flopping
Almost immediately after going viral on social media as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” Haliey Welch cashed in by landing a podcast deal sponsored by online betting platform Betr.
The show’s first guest, Whitney Cummings, actually made for an entertaining episode, but since then it’s been downhill. The absurdity of the show itse... See more
Almost immediately after going viral on social media as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” Haliey Welch cashed in by landing a podcast deal sponsored by online betting platform Betr.
The show’s first guest, Whitney Cummings, actually made for an entertaining episode, but since then it’s been downhill. The absurdity of the show itse... See more
