Sublime

Podcasting has been around since the early 2000s, but Anchor, a podcast platform launched in 2017 that simplifies podcast creation, was reported to be powering 70% of all new podcasts as of Q1 2020 and believes that its monetization platform effectively doubled the number of podcasts running ads.

Music generated $8.7 billion in revenue in the U.S. in 2017; podcasts generated only around $300 million in the U.S.

Hi, I’m Nicolás, founder of Happy Few. What’s Happy Few? Every week, a tight ±800-word growth playbook and reflection land in the inbox of leaders and operators working in alternative education. Yes—±800 words. Are the playbooks any good? No. They’re great—drawn from my experience as a C-level executive at a virtual school and as a consu... See more

The first wave of media was fueled by cheap audience acquisition from social media companies like Facebook which created BuzzFeed and UpWorth. The second wave is the subscription wave. Consumers want curation, contextualization, and recommendations