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Podcast Perspectives

Jeff Umbro, The Podglomerate LLC

Podcast Perspectives helps you understand the ever-changing podcast industry. Hosted by Jeff Umbro, founder and CEO of The Podglomerate, this Signal Award winning show speaks to leaders in the podcast space through longform interviews and panel discussions. The goal is to walk through not only the important news and issues of the day in the podcast landscape, but also to go deep on the topics that podcasters need to know today. Named PR Daily"s 2025 Best Podcast Production and Marketing Agency, The

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28:48

Quill and CoHost’s Fatima Zaidi on the Future of...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/11/15

How do you reach your target audience? While this is a challenge for all podcasters, it’s especially important in the branded podcast space, where it’s often not always obvious who your listener is, let alone how to make a show they’d want to listen to. Quill and CoHost founder and CEO Fatima Zaidi is tackling this challenge. Quill is a branded podcast agency that produces, distributes and markets shows for Fortune 500 companies. CoHost is a podcast hosting platform (and recently a prefix) that

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33:09

Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta on Building an...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/11/08

As the podcast space grows, it’s becoming clear that many in the audio industry are not on the same page about a few key things: standard rules and regulations, how we measure success, even basic terms and definitions. In 2020 Bryan Barletta founded Sounds Profitable – a company committed to setting the course of the audio business by creating free educational materials, research, and connecting different players in the industry. Today I’m chatting with Bryan about what they’ve been up to recently,

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30:07

Lemonada Media CEO Jessica Cordova Kramer on the...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/11/01

Lemonada Media launched as a brand new podcast network with just one show in 2019. Just four years later, they've grown into a network of nearly 50 podcasts known for pumping out audio hits – Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Last Day, Believe Her, and more. Keen observers will also notice their innovative partnerships, like the Lemonada Book Club made in collaboration with Apple Books. Today I’m checking in with Lemonada’s co-founder and CEO Jessica Cordova Kramer about the state of the

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27:30

HubSpot’s Jonathan Barshop on Podcast Growth and...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/10/25

In 2021 HubSpot made a surprising move to acquire The Hustle, a newsletter along with the My First Million podcast. The Hustle and MFM eventually became the base of what today is the HubSpot Podcast Network, an audio unit within HubSpot aimed at funneling sales towards their other more lucrative products. The network has greatly expanded over the last two years, today boasting dozens of shows and millions of monthly downloads. One of the players helping the network’s meteoric growth is Sr. Growth

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26:39

iHeartMedia’s Amber Smith on What is Ruby?

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/10/18

This year the podcasting giant iHeartMedia launched a new division called Ruby, which works exclusively to create and amplify podcasts for brands. To understand why iHeart made this move and what Ruby is up to, today I’m chatting with Ruby’s Director of Audience Development, Amber Smith. Amber has an eclectic background in the audio world, working as a producer at SiriusXM and a manager of podcast partnerships at Pandora after SiriusXM acquired the platform, all before landing in audience

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27:02

Media War & Peace’s Evan Shapiro on Podcasting in the...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/10/11

Evan Shapiro writes the newsletter “Media War and Peace” where he maps out the state of the media industry using data visualization models. He’s also a professor at NYU and used to work in podcast and television development at IFC Sundance and NBC Universal’s Seeso. This background allows him to have a comprehensive view of the podcast industry from a global perspective, and how it’s situated in the broader media environment. It also allows him to know from experience how to make a successful and

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37:06

DCP Entertainment’s Chris Colbert on How Podcasting...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/10/04

In 2017 after stints at SiriusXM and Audacy, Chris Colbert founded his own podcast agency, DCP Entertainment. DCP defines itself as a media platform for underrepresented voices, including people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and other overlooked communities. Fast forward to today and DCP works with some of the biggest brands in the world, including State Farm, Dell, Acast, and creates some of the largest shows in the industry. In this episode, we chat with Chris about why he left his senior

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32:13

Alex Goldman, Amrita Khalid, and Rachael King on the...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/09/27

Is the podcast industry at the end of an era? The beginning of a new one? Or are we just seeing the natural ups and downs of a developing market? Today’s episode collects a panel of industry experts to weigh in on this discourse by taking a step back and looking at the entire podcast industry through its past, present, and future. The panel includes: Amrita Khalid, reporter at The Verge and writer at Hot Pod, one of the largest newsletters covering the audio industry. Alex Goldman, formerly a

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29:02

The Washington Post's Lillian Cunningham: From...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/09/20

The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham produced, wrote, and hosted one of the Washington Post’s first podcasts: Presidential, a series about the history of the American presidents. Despite the show being Lillian and The Post’s first audio project, it was an immediate hit. Since then, Lillian has gone on to produce and host three more narrative series for The Post, including Constitutional, Moonrise, and most recently Field Trip, a series about the messy past and uncertain future of America’s

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35:35

All Things Comedy's Russell Weissman on...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/09/13

In 2017 Russell Weissman joined All Things Comedy as an early employee, and was recently promoted to COO. He’s been a key figure in guiding the company’s growth. Today All Things Comedy is one of the largest podcast networks in the world, and by any measure can be considered a media company that spans well beyond podcasting. And yet! They still maintain the original indie / co-op foundation the company was founded on. Russell and I cover a lot of ground in this conversation, including All Things

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25:06

Podchaser's Bradley Davis on Building the IMDB of...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/09/06

Back in 2017 Bradley Davis and a small team founded Podchaser, a company that has since become a leading database for podcast discovery – it’s widely been called the “IMDB of podcasting.” Jeff and Bradley discuss Podchaser’s use-cases for podcast listeners and producers, the so-called “podcast discovery problem,” and Acast’s 2022 acquisition of the startup. You can learn more about Podchaser at https://www.podchaser.com/ and find Bradley on Twitter @beradleydavis. Jeff is on Twitter @JeffUmbro The

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NHPR's Rebecca Lavoie on An Opportunity for Public Radio

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/08/30

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter around the public radio in podcasting discourse. Joining Jeff to break it all down is Rebecca Lavoie, Director of On-Demand Audio at New Hampshire Public Radio. Rebecca has been with NHPR for 10 years, but is also familiar with the commercial side of the industry through her work with Netflix and Partners in Crime Media, the audio company she runs with her husband. Rebecca breaks down how the public radio space works: how stations make money, their relationship

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34:22

Lower Street's Harry Morton on A New Kind of B2B...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/08/23

For many, “B2B podcasting” conjures up some bleak images: 45-minute pitches on a vaguely defined product, buzzword-filled conversations in an exec-filled Zoom call, or the dreaded infomercial-style podcast. Here to change that is today’s guest, Harry Morton. In 2017, Harry founded Lower Street Media, a podcast services company for enterprise companies, agencies and startups. Lower Street produces award-winning podcasts for brands of all sizes. Jeff and Harry chat about what actually makes podcasts

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35:51

Supporting Cast's Eric Barnett on Monetizing Audio:...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/08/16

While most podcasters rely on advertising to fund their operations, a successful strategy isn’t always guaranteed. In recent years many podcasters have tried to focus on alternative revenue streams, such as premium subscription feeds. Eric Barnett is here to walk us through these alternatives. Eric is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Supporting Cast, a company that provides subscription platforms for some of the biggest players in the audio world – NPR, Wondery, Pushkin, etc. He spends his

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Triton Digital's Sharon Taylor on What Podcast...

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/08/09

The RSS feed is now a 20 year-old technology, and has remained largely static in that period – a simple way to distribute audio on the internet. But with constantly evolving methods of distribution, analytics, and monetization in the fragmented podcast ecosystem, it’s become increasingly difficult to create all-in-one solutions for creators to host their podcasts. To parse the challenges of keeping RSS up-to-date in a fast-moving industry, I’m speaking with my friend Sharon Taylor. Sharon is the

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Introducing Podcast Perspectives

Podcast Perspectives ·

2023/07/27

Podcast Perspectives helps you understand the ever-changing podcast industry. Hosted by Jeff Umbro, founder and CEO of The Podglomerate, a podcast services agency focused on production, audience growth, and monetization for some of the biggest podcasts in the world, this show speaks to leaders in the podcast space through longform interviews and panel discussions. The goal is to walk through not only the important news and issues of the day in the podcast landscape, but also to go deep on the topics

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