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James Cridland: You host Two Hot Takes . Tell us about that. It's a big show. It's been in the Edison Research Top 50. Uh, what's the show about? Morgan Absher: I like to describe it as a modern day Dear Abby , a relationship advice column. We're pulling stories from the internet, and our own subreddit and reacting to people's crazy life problems, giving them advice and creating a sense of…
Dan Granger is CEO of Oxford Road; Giles Martin is SVP of Strategy and Measurement at Oxford Road. Dan Granger: I've given my whole career to podcasting. It's got so much potential and possibility, but I think we're holding ourselves back and doing something that I don't think anybody that pursues any commercial interest should ever be doing - which is: frustrating our customers. We do not make it…
Martin Bojtos: I'm the co-founder of Podmasters - we're a podcast production company and network. We produce and and own our own shows, but we also work with talent, and we also work with clients to make to make shows. James Cridland: And it's Podmasters' tenth year this year. So what have you learned in the last 10 years? MB: I started Podmasters with my co-founder Andrew Harrison - we met in…
Arielle Nissenblatt , a podcast strategist, writer and community builder, visited the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas recently, and discovered The Studio, the resort's dedicated podcast and video production space. She spoke with the President of Baha Mar, Graeme Davis, about why the resort invested in a podcast studio - who it's for, and what success looks like. Arielle Nissenblatt: For those who…
I'm Jared Lapin, and I'm the chief strategy officer at Consumable. I help to find ways to use audio to reach new listeners in innovative ways, especially with Consumable's Visual Audio Ad Unit, which is an interstitial in apps. Consumable is an innovational audio company with a focus on finding ways to create signal-rich opportunities for audio advertising. James Cridland: Podcast measurement is…
Richard Fawal: Voxtopica is a full-stack podcast agency. It was founded in 2019, out of a consulting firm that I had founded. We are designed to help people in nonprofits, government agencies, trade associations, and the general mission-driven world, to have success in podcasting. Sam Sethi: Why that narrow niche? RF: That's my background over the last 35 years, working in and for organizations…
James Cridland: Next week you celebrate 10 years of the Locked On Podcast Network. Congratulations. What was the first show that you did? David Locke: Locked On Jazz was the first show I was the host, and I also did Locked On NBA. So I was the first of the two hosts that existed on the show. Then we got the NBA and the NFL loaded up and launched. I think Locked On Bowls might have been the very…
Sam Sethi: Let me start off with you, Mark. Captivate has been very quiet for six months and now we know why. What's been happening for you? Mark Asquith: Captivate exists to help anyone that is serious about podcasting to do better in podcasting against their own goals. So, of course we've had the Apple Video HLS launch partnership. But the bigger piece has been working with Brian and his…
James Cridland: So it was announced earlier this month that BIPOC Podcast Creators is closing. Why is it going to close? Tangia R. Al-awaji Estrada: There were several factors that we had to consider. This was a decision that we didn't come to lightly - I think we spent the better part of a year discussing it and looking for other options; having multiple conversations with potential buyers, not…
Jason Carter: The Podcast Show is getting bigger and bigger as an event. We're super excited about it. My personal highlight is seeing the take-up from people across the UK and around the world that really want to come to the show this year, and also in terms of partnerships and new partners on board. We've got brilliant retention in terms of the big headliners like iHeart and Global and Bauer…