The Business of Content

Tech News #76

The show about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content.

This former Disney exec's podcast company generates 100 million monthly downloads
May 13, 2025 – 48:41
How to sell your media business
May 7, 2025 – 43:49
News nonprofits need to spend more time courting rich donors
Apr 30, 2025 – 49:44
How media outlets can use games to increase their revenue
Apr 25, 2025 – 48:06
His media company reaches more New Yorkers than the New York Times
Apr 17, 2025 – 40:23
Why China will dominate the global electric vehicle market
Apr 9, 2025 – 25:42
How Zyn conquered America
Apr 1, 2025 – 26:04
What Hollywood can learn from MrBeast
Mar 13, 2025 – 26:17
How JJ Hornblass built Royal Media, the most successful B2B media company you've never heard of
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:08:11
How The Dispatch is diversifying beyond just subscription revenue
Feb 19, 2025 – 57:58
Mill Media proved that audiences would pay for local news
Feb 12, 2025 – 41:49
This Colorado food writer came up with a novel way to monetize his content
Jan 30, 2025 – 01:00:25
How 1440 scaled its newsletter to 4 million subscribers
Jan 23, 2025 – 55:30
How Scott Porch helps podcasters grow and monetize their audiences
Jan 13, 2025 – 59:41
How the Money for the Rest of Us podcast built a six figure membership platform
Dec 19, 2024 – 44:58
How Ben Cohen successfully pivoted from advertising to a subscription-based business model
Dec 12, 2024 – 01:04:26
How Eric Newcomer used his newsletter to launch a $1.5 million events business
Dec 9, 2024 – 43:10
How the KC Sports Network is building a regional media empire
Nov 14, 2024 – 29:41
How Lon Seidman used his tech YouTube channel to build a huge affiliate business
Nov 8, 2024 – 26:36
How to market a book in the age of Tiktok
Oct 24, 2024 – 26:29
How Alts.co monetizes its massive newsletter with an investor membership platform
Oct 18, 2024 – 21:49
How Eric Siu leveraged his hugely popular podcasts to grow his ad agency
Oct 17, 2024 – 18:55
How Keith Pepper turned an Atlanta newspaper chain into a digital-first media company
Oct 10, 2024 – 18:01
How Block Club Chicago reached 20,000 paying subscribers
Sep 24, 2024 – 52:40
How State House News charges $4,000 for access to its journalism
Sep 18, 2024 – 41:53
How Stacker distributes sponsored content to thousands of publishers
Sep 11, 2024 – 15:45
How Mignon Fogarty launched a massively successful series of online courses
Sep 5, 2024 – 15:50
How Andrew Curtin built Construction Wave, a B2B outlet covering the UK's construction industry
Sep 4, 2024 – 37:30
How Tim Burrowes helped build Mumbrella into a $7 million media brand
Aug 21, 2024 – 56:04
How Alex Halperin built WeedWeek, a B2B outlet that covers California's cannabis industry
Aug 8, 2024 – 36:56
How Mission Local spun off from UC Berkeley and became a self-sustaining news outlet
Aug 5, 2024 – 32:00
How Colossus built one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks
Jul 31, 2024 – 40:56
How Gary Arndt built Everything Everywhere, a podcast with 1.5 million monthly downloads
Jul 17, 2024 – 52:06
How Jared Newman built Cord Cutter Weekly, a TV streaming newsletter with 32,000 subscribers
Jun 27, 2024 – 33:38
How Philip Taylor built FinCon, the leading conference for personal finance creators
May 23, 2024 – 50:25
The economics of ghostwriting books
May 9, 2024 – 43:48
How Ben McCarthy built a Salesforce-focused media company with 400,000 monthly readers
Apr 25, 2024 – 42:21
How Joe Pulizzi built and sold The Tilt, a newsletter and conference business geared toward creators
Apr 18, 2024 – 45:37
How Brad Hargreaves built Thesis Driven, a newsletter and data product focused on real estate
Apr 4, 2024 – 56:01
How Andreas Sator built one of the most popular podcasts in Austria
Mar 27, 2024 – 44:55
How to grow your audience in a post-Facebook world
Mar 21, 2024 – 01:02:00
How William Knight built Early Morning Media, a B2B newsletter company
Mar 19, 2024 – 48:26
How Tom Arbuthnot built Empowering Cloud, a media comapany focused on Microsoft cloud products
Mar 14, 2024 – 35:40
How CJ Gustafson built Mostly Metrics, a newsletter for CFOs
Mar 7, 2024 – 42:56
How Sam Koslowski helped build The Daily Aus, a social first media outlet in Australia
Feb 28, 2024 – 43:21
The state of newsletter advertising in 2024
Feb 21, 2024 – 39:34
How Riad Chikhani built GAMURS Group, one of the largest gaming media companies in the world
Feb 16, 2024 – 57:55
How to monetize newsletters on LinkedIn
Feb 12, 2024 – 01:00:30
How Jack Kramer and Nick Martell sold their media company to Robinhood and then bought it back
Feb 7, 2024 – 54:09
How Cityside built a sustainable model for local news
Feb 2, 2024 – 57:12