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The Rebooting Show
The Rebooting Show
Brian Morrissey

The Rebooting Show gets into the weeds with those building and operating media businesses, giving an open view into how the smartest... more

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Episodes

Inside Dude Perfect’s highly profitable business model

An enduring challenge of the media business is finding leverage in models. This used to be fairly straightforward. Newspapers had... more

25 Mar 2025 · 45 minutes
Morning Brew's Robert Dippell on moving into B2B

Morning Brew CEO Robert Dippell joins me to break down the fundamental differences between consumer and B2B media, why so... more

17 Mar 2025 · 50 minutes
Adam Ryan on why newsletters are a channel, not a business model

Adam Ryan, CEO of Workweek, joined me this week to discuss his recent warning that the newsletter sector is overheated.... more

10 Mar 2025 · 53 minutes
B2B lessons for B2C

Sean Griffey, until recently the CEO of Industry Dive, joined me on The Rebooting Show to discuss the big things... more

25 Feb 2025 · 52 minutes
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on where social media went wrong

BuzzFeed has always been a company that plays with the boundaries of media, technology, and internet culture. From its early... more

17 Feb 2025 · 55 minutes
Ad tech comes to TV

The worlds of TV and internet publishing operated separately. The platforms, the dynamics and even the language used was completely... more

03 Feb 2025 · 45 minutes
The outlook for AI and publishing in 2025

This week, I'm joined by Pete Pachal, a publishing veteran who writes The Media Copilot newsletter that focuses on the... more

28 Jan 2025 · 59 minutes
Axios' Sara Fischer on the alternative media's growth

This is set up to be a banner year for alternative media. Axios senior media reporter Sara Fischer joined me... more

20 Jan 2025 · 54 minutes
Big Tech in 2025

On this week’s episode of The Rebooting Show, I was joined by Alex Kantrowitz, who writes the Big Technology newsletter... more

13 Jan 2025 · 50 minutes
The end of affiliate arbitrage

Mike Mallazzo, writer of the reliably excellent Zero Clicks newsletter from Martech Record and a veteran of digital publishing and... more

06 Jan 2025 · 56 minutes
How Gannett is adapting for an AI era

In this live podcast, I spoke to Imtiaz Patel, chief consumer officer; Kristin Roberts, chief content officer; Jason Taylor, chief... more

12 Dec 2024 · 46 minutes
How Metro increased traffic by publishing less

At Metro, the free London newspaper, the comedown from the traffic era was jarring. At the end of 2022, with... more

02 Dec 2024 · 13 minutes
Mark Penn on the state of the news business

Stagwell CEO Mark Penn is a veteran of politics. In this discussion, he examines how shifting audience behaviors and trust... more

19 Nov 2024 · 33 minutes
The new search wars

AI-powered search engines have clawed a foothold in the critical search market that controls distribution on the open web. Media... more

05 Nov 2024 · 41 minutes
The evolution of Blockworks

Blockworks CEO Jason Yanowitz discusses how Blockworks has evolved the company from an events business to podcast network to news... more

28 Oct 2024 · 43 minutes
Defector’s Jasper Wang on slow growth

Defector Media, the sports and culture publication launched four years ago by former Deadspin writers, is an example of the... more

22 Oct 2024 · 55 minutes
Building independent media businesses

I was joined by Reid DeRamus to discuss the strategic and tactical decisions that go into building an independent media... more

15 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
AI in the newsroom

In this Spotlight episode, Josh Brandau, CEO of The Rebooting partner Nota, discusses how AI can be a critical tool... more

07 Oct 2024 · 48 minutes
Fitt Insider's Anthony Vennare on niche media models

Fitt Insider, a media brand for the fitness and wellness industry, is a good example of the type of media... more

01 Oct 2024 · 54 minutes
How Front Office Sports went from college project to $10m in revenue

This week, I was joined by one of my favorite media entrepreneurs, Adam White. Adam has built Front Office Sports... more

23 Sep 2024 · 48 minutes
Why sports are winning

Adam Mendelsohn operates at the nexus of sports, media, business and culture. Adam is a longtime advisor to LeBron James... more

16 Sep 2024 · 50 minutes
Google on trial

This week marks an important moment in the history of digital advertising as the U.S. Department of Justice presses its... more

09 Sep 2024 · 42 minutes
Scott Messer on publishing’s “pivot to everything”

Scott Messer is founder of media advisory firm Messer Media and former svp of media at Leaf Group. Scott is... more

19 Aug 2024 · 46 minutes
Winning at affiliate

In a spotlight episode of The Rebooting Show, I spoke with Affinity Global CEO Lavin Punjabi for his view of... more

13 Aug 2024 · 52 minutes
A confusing time for mass brands

On this week’s episode of The Rebooting Show, I was joined by Ana Andjelic,  a veteran brand executive and writer... more

05 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
How AI will impact publishing

This week, we are wrapping up a series on The Rebooting Show that examines the role of product at a... more

29 Jul 2024 · 45 minutes
Post-platform product development

At the Media Product Forum earlier this month, I spoke with Gannett head of product Renn Turiano, Hearst Newspapers chief... more

22 Jul 2024 · 31 minutes
How Dotdash Meredith and The Daily Beast approach product

At last week’s Media Product Forum, which The Rebooting held in collaboration with WordPress VIP, I had a discussion with... more

17 Jul 2024 · 28 minutes
Bloomberg Media’s audience-focused approach to product

In a session recorded at The Media Product Forum in NYC, Bloomberg Media global head of product Marissa Zanetti-Crume shares... more

16 Jul 2024 · 30 minutes
The God metric for audience value

In a discussion held in Cannes, I sat down with Jason White, chief product and technology officer at The Arena... more

11 Jul 2024 · 32 minutes
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At the Media Product Forum earlier this month, I spoke with Gannett head of product Renn Turiano, Hearst Newspapers chief commercial officer... more