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Longform interviews with media entrepreneurs

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Longform interviews with media entrepreneurs

Simon Owens
Dec 9, 2020
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Longform interviews with media entrepreneurs

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

  1. How Stacked Marketer grew to over $600k in revenue

  2. Why The Financial Times launched an inexpensive mobile app

  3. How to launch a successful events business

  4. How to build a successful B2B media company

  5. Overstory is one of the fastest growing media companies in Canada

  6. How James Cridland built the most influential newsletter within the podcast industry

  7. Meet the guy who’s shaping HubSpot’s media strategy

  8. How Matt Brown built a thriving newsletter around the business of college sports

  9. How Roca News grew to 1.1 million Instagram subscribers

  10. Uncovered is building the largest community for true crime enthusiasts

  11. He sold his newsletter to a climate tech company

  12. How Libsyn plans to challenge Spotify for podcast dominance

  13. How The Future Party grew its newsletter to 150,000 subscribers

  14. How publishers can drive more subscription revenue

  15. Why Brandi Kruse left her lucrative TV news career to launch her own podcast

  16. How Stacker created a newswire for data journalism

  17. Inside Morning Brew's video strategy

  18. How two graduate students launched the leading biotech publisher in Europe

  19. Why David Kushner is serializing his next book on Substack

  20. How a kids-focused podcaster reached 1 million monthly downloads

  21. How investment newsletter The Daily Upside reached 300,000 subscribers

  22. How a serial media entrepreneur launched a new MVP

  23. How a former Cosmo editor built Australia's largest women-focused media company

  24. How a college student launched one of the most influential B2B sports media companies

  25. How a podcast for entrepreneurial parents generates $200,000 a year

  26. How Starter Story grew to 1.4 million monthly visitors and $500,000 in annual revenue

  27. How Big Cabal Media became one of the fastest-growing news outlets in Africa

  28. How an interest in whiskey birthed a thriving media company

  29. Why The Information launched a Creator Economy newsletter

  30. How Maria Brito used Instagram to build a 7-figure art consulting business

  31. How an engineering student accidentally started a thriving science news site

  32. Was Randy Cassingham the first member of the Creator Economy?

  33. How ScoopWhoop became one of India’s most viral publishers

  34. Judd Legum proved that investigative journalism can thrive on Substack

  35. Can a hit YouTube channel thrive after its founder departs?

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

  37. Can Quartz become a scrappy media startup?

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

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

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

  41. How Blockworks is building a crypto media empire

  42. 5 lessons from running a paid newsletter for the past year

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

  44. How 6AM City is scaling crowdsourced local journalism

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

  46. This company specializes in turning industry conferences into podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  54. Inside the career of a successful ghostwriter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  62. Can local news thrive on Substack?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  69. What it takes to operate a physical podcast studio

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

  71. How this barbecue website built a thriving ecommerce business

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

  73. This media company merged local news with content marketing

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

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

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