The Rebooting Show gets into the weeds with those building and operating media businesses, giving an open view into how the smartest... more
In this live podcast, I spoke to Imtiaz Patel, chief consumer officer; Kristin Roberts, chief content officer; Jason Taylor, chief... more
At Metro, the free London newspaper, the comedown from the traffic era was jarring. At the end of 2022, with... more
Stagwell CEO Mark Penn is a veteran of politics. In this discussion, he examines how shifting audience behaviors and trust... more
AI-powered search engines have clawed a foothold in the critical search market that controls distribution on the open web. Media... more
Blockworks CEO Jason Yanowitz discusses how Blockworks has evolved the company from an events business to podcast network to news... more
Defector Media, the sports and culture publication launched four years ago by former Deadspin writers, is an example of the... more
I was joined by Reid DeRamus to discuss the strategic and tactical decisions that go into building an independent media... more
In this Spotlight episode, Josh Brandau, CEO of The Rebooting partner Nota, discusses how AI can be a critical tool... more
Fitt Insider, a media brand for the fitness and wellness industry, is a good example of the type of media... more
This week, I was joined by one of my favorite media entrepreneurs, Adam White. Adam has built Front Office Sports... more
Adam Mendelsohn operates at the nexus of sports, media, business and culture. Adam is a longtime advisor to LeBron James... more
This week marks an important moment in the history of digital advertising as the U.S. Department of Justice presses its... more
Scott Messer is founder of media advisory firm Messer Media and former svp of media at Leaf Group. Scott is... more
In a spotlight episode of The Rebooting Show, I spoke with Affinity Global CEO Lavin Punjabi for his view of... more
On this week’s episode of The Rebooting Show, I was joined by Ana Andjelic, a veteran brand executive and writer... more
This week, we are wrapping up a series on The Rebooting Show that examines the role of product at a... more
At the Media Product Forum earlier this month, I spoke with Gannett head of product Renn Turiano, Hearst Newspapers chief... more
At last week’s Media Product Forum, which The Rebooting held in collaboration with WordPress VIP, I had a discussion with... more
In a session recorded at The Media Product Forum in NYC, Bloomberg Media global head of product Marissa Zanetti-Crume shares... more
In a discussion held in Cannes, I sat down with Jason White, chief product and technology officer at The Arena... more
In a session recorded at the Cannes Lions, Hearst Magazines CRO Lisa Ryan and Jen Dorre join the show to... more
In this episode recorded at the Dotdash Meredith villa in Cannes, Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel and Axios senior media... more
This episode from Cannes of The Rebooting Show, presented by Outbrain, features David Kostman (CEO of Outbrain), Kate Scott-Dawkins (Global... more
Semafor editor in chief Ben Smith sees a fragmenting media landscape and impatient owners running headlong into the peculiarities of... more
In the wake of Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post in 2013 and the heady “Democracy Dies in Darkness” days... more
Publishing is shifting from prioritizing breadth to rewarding depth. That starts with understanding the audience — and its segments —... more
Scott Porch, founder of Big IP, which operates the business side of several popular lifestyle podcasts like The John Campea... more
Detailed.com's Glen Allsop breaks down the massive Google update roiling the publishing world as Google attempts to gain control of... more
Emma Tucker was named the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal (and Dow Jones Newswires) in early 2023. She was... more
Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at NYU, discusses the diminished state of the industry, promising nonprofit models and new... more
I’m joined by Matt Cronin, founding partner at House of Kaizen, which works with publishers and other companies with recurring... more
On this week’s episode of The Rebooting Show, I spoke to writer John McDermott about his recent expose of self-help... more
Stephanie Kaplan Lewis founded Her Campus in 2009 with Annie Wang, and Windsor Western as college undergraduates. They saw a... more
Matt Cronin is a founding partner at https://www.houseofkaizen.com/rebooting (House of Kaizen), a consultancy that works with publishers and other... more
Mosheh Oinounou, a broadcast news veteran, started posting summaries of the news of the day during the early days of... more
The Rebooting is launching paid memberships. All the details are on therebooting.com. In this episode, I speak to my collaborator... more
Digital media veteran Scott Messer discusses the structural changes to the publishing business, from the deprecation of the third-party cookie... more
This week on The Rebooting Show, I spoke to The Juggernaut’s founder and CEO Snigda Sur. We discussed the need... more
This week, I caught up with Larry Fitzgibbon, the CEO of Tastemade. I think of Tastemade as an original digital... more
The media business in 2024 To kick off the year on The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Axios senior media reporter... more
I spoke to Matt Cronin, founding partner of House of Kaizen, a consultancy that works with publishers on their subscription... more
Matt Reustle, CEO of Colossus, a business-focused podcasting network that’s home to Invest Like the Best, Business Breakdowns and Founders,... more
On this week’s episode of The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Tomiwa Aladekomo, CEO of Big Cabal, a Nigerian digital... more
The Rebooting recently wrapped up its second research project in collaboration with BlueConic. Patrick Crane, vp of sales at BlueConic,... more
Bridget Williams is a veteran of the industry. I first got to know Bridget when she was at Business Insider... more
The Guardian has used voluntary reader contributions as a bulwark of its unique model that blends philanthropy, advertising and voluntary... more
Jeff Selingo spent eight years at the Chronicle of Higher Education, serving as editor in chief and editorial director, before... more
https://blockworks.co/ (Blockworks), founded as a crypto events company in 2018, has rode these ups and downs. It began in the... more
Defector is a worker-owned media company that was born out of disillusionment with the tradeoffs the digital media ecosystem often... more
My former colleague Mike Shields of Next in Media joins me to discuss what to make of Advertising Week, which... more
On a crossover episode of The Rebooting Show and People vs Algorithms, Alex Schleifer and I discuss the end of... more
Video is viewed paradoxically by publishers. They see budgets shifting to sight, sound and motion. Video ads, formerly known as... more
Before the Lumascape, there was another go-to conference and pitch deck slide for anyone betting on what was then called... more
Five cents. That’s how much https://join1440.com/ (general-news newsletter 1440) makes each time one of its 3 million subscribers opens one... more
Founded a decade ago, Team Whistle is a survivor. It sprang to life as a wave of multichannel networks that... more
The digital advertising system is in the midst of a shift, from an over-reliance on collecting vast amounts of data... more
This is a bonus episode of The Rebooting Show, featuring a conversation I had on the People vs Algorithms podcast.... more
Rich Routman is a veteran of the sports media industry. He recalls how if an advertiser discussed a cost-per-action deal... more
Bustle was founded a decade ago in a far different media environment, as big digital media companies, flush with VC... more
Puck launched two years ago, heralded as Vanity Fair for the Substack era. A big part of the pitch was... more
CJ Gustafson is one of the rare people who is both immersed in his field but does not suffer from... more
Literally Media -- home to Cracked, I Know Your Meme and Cheezburger -- isn't going to fight creators. Instead, it's... more
This week, I spoke to Parquor’s Andrew Rosen, a former Vicom exec turned media analyst, to unpack Hollywood’s weird summer... more
Bloomberg Media CEO Scott Havens sees AI as both challenge and opportunity for publishers, who at this point are used... more
On this week’s episode of https://pod.link/1595625177 (The Rebooting Show), I was joined by Hearst’s David Carey to discuss the resilience... more
At Dotdash Meredith, CEO Neil Vogel remembers sitting around with his management team, after $2 million in “incremental” ad revenue... more
Last week, at The New Attention Economy in Cannes, I discussed the notion of “influencer journalism” with Semafor co-founder and... more
Christine Cook joined Bloomberg Media in March as global chief revenue officer. We spoke about reasons for media optimism, how... more
At The New Attention Economy’s final day in Cannes, we turned the spotlight on AI with a closing session featuring... more
For Hearst global chief revenue officer Lisa Howard, the shift to focus mostly on subscriptions at many publishers obscures the... more
In a live recording of The Rebooting Show from Cannes, Kirk McDonald, CEO of GroupM North America, seemed to wonder... more
Anna Palmer is a journalist turned startup CEO. Along with Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, she founded Punchbowl News in... more
This episode is sponsored by https://kervit.com/ (Kerv), which uses artificial intelligence to identify objects within video and match them to... more
The Rebooting show is sponsored by Kerv Interactive, an AI-powered video creative technology that creates shoppable and immersive experiences within... more
Thanks to Kerv for sponsoring this episode. To see Kerv's technology at work, check out Peacock's MustShop TV.If you’ll be... more
Last week, I was in Chicago to attend the Omeda OX6 conference, where I recorded a live version of The... more
Will Hayward, the CEO of Private Media, an independent publishing company in Australia that publishes several titles, including https://www.crikey.com.au/ (politics-focused... more
When I sent over topics for the latest episode of The Rebooting show to Axios’s Sara Fischer and Vox’s Peter... more
https://bittersoutherner.com/ (The Bitter Southerner) began as a passion project for a group of natives to the South who were, well,... more
News on its own is often not a great business. Advertisers want to avoid it, and the humans required to... more
Last week, I was in Chicago to attend the Omeda OX6 conference, where I recorded a live version of The Rebooting Show... more