Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe over here or just click on this handy little button: The New York Times’s podcast success was a fluke New York magazine published a long, satisfying profile of The Daily, the New York Times hit podcast that is throwing off, at minimum, $12 million a year in advertising. The podcast’s impact on the newspaper is best summed up by a quote from Sam Dolnick, head of its audio division: “The Daily is the modern front page of the New York Times.” Its 2 million daily downloads, the New York article points out, is larger than the entire circulation of the weekday print version of the paper.
The New York Times’s podcast success was a fluke
The New York Times’s podcast success was a…
The New York Times’s podcast success was a fluke
Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe over here or just click on this handy little button: The New York Times’s podcast success was a fluke New York magazine published a long, satisfying profile of The Daily, the New York Times hit podcast that is throwing off, at minimum, $12 million a year in advertising. The podcast’s impact on the newspaper is best summed up by a quote from Sam Dolnick, head of its audio division: “The Daily is the modern front page of the New York Times.” Its 2 million daily downloads, the New York article points out, is larger than the entire circulation of the weekday print version of the paper.