Index of case study interviews

This is an ongoing repository of my case study interviews. I’m compiling it to make it easier for new paying subscribers to access older case studies.

1. Can a former Myspace CTO drive the creator economy's next evolution?

2. Can Quartz become a scrappy media startup?

3. How Taegan Goddard built a thriving paid membership for Political Wire

4. This YouTuber built a massive following with pop music guitar lessons

5. How Newsflare monetizes video from over 60,000 contributors

6. How Blockworks is building a crypto media empire

7. 5 lessons from running a paid newsletter for the past year

8. How Josh Spector monetizes his 25,000 newsletter subscribers

9. How 6AM City is scaling crowdsourced local journalism

10. How The Discourse scaled its business model to 34 local news sites

11. This company specializes in turning industry conferences into podcasts

12. Daily Detroit is proving there’s a market for local podcasts

13. How two YouTubers turned their hunting vlog into a thriving business

14. How a VC investor grew her newsletter to over 100,000 subscribers

15. How a trade show’s newsletter saved the company during Covid

16. This Australian news site doubled its paid subscriptions over the past year

17. Why a Hell’s Kitchen print magazine pivoted to newsletters

18. This TV podcast generates $4,000 a month on Patreon

19. Inside the career of a successful ghostwriter

20. How Kent Anderson became a watchdog over the scholarly publishing industry

21. He got laid off from Yahoo Sports, so he launched his own sports newsletter

22. How a leading fintech events company pivoted to virtual events

23. This journalist launched a news outlet for French expats in the U.S.

24. He amassed 5,000 subscribers for one of New Zealand’s first paid newsletters

25. Why this digital publisher launched a twice-yearly print magazine

26. How a bestselling author became a one-man media company

27. Can local news thrive on Substack?

28. This agency helps B2B tech companies develop their own podcasts

29. This former Patch reporter launched his own thriving local news site

30. Macmillan was an early podcast pioneer. Here’s what it’s up to next

31. He wrote a newsletter for the Chicago Tribune. Then he launched his own

32. His barbecue site generates $100,000 a month

33. He helped launch a thriving news cooperative in Bristol UK

34. What it takes to operate a physical podcast studio

35. Why news publishers shouldn’t give up on Wordpress

36. How this barbecue website built a thriving ecommerce business

37. How to grow your newsletter by syndicating it to mainstream media outlets

38. This media company merged local news with content marketing

39. Why you should adapt your podcast episodes into multiple formats

40. How a blogger sold $72,000 in ebooks over a 3-day period