Sitemap - 2019 - Simon Owens's Media Newsletter
Why Apple’s daily newsletter is a bigger deal than you realize
Why paid podcast subscriptions are so hard to scale
Why Patreon’s $1 billion milestone is so significant
3 ways to create a bad user experience for your podcast listeners
Substack built a framework for how platforms can support creators
Why the tech platforms lost interest in streaming live sports
How platforms abandon their homegrown creators
The media industry might be healthier than you realize
This startup wants to solve podcasting’s monetization problem
How BuzzFeed is solving native advertising’s scale problem
Will 10 million people pay for personal essays?
How Harvard Business Review generated 2.5 million newsletter signups
How Clive Thompson became one of the most influential tech journalists
Why I'd choose 5,000 podcast listeners over 100,000 Twitter followers
He founded one of the earliest tech blogs. Now he edits a newsletter
Why nearly every news publisher should have a podcast strategy
Why bundled subscriptions won’t save the news industry
Why Hulu is poised to become an advertising juggernaut
Why making a living as a freelance journalist is so difficult
Why generating “1,000 true fans” is a lot harder than it looks
Inside Vox Media’s podcast strategy
How YouTube is rigged against independent video creators
Why the “Trump Bump” didn’t deliver much revenue to news publishers
Facebook decimated this publisher’s business. So it became a paid newsletter.
Why your favorite YouTube channels look more and more like cable TV
This indie newsletter generated over 10,000 paying subscribers
The race to build a podcast recommendation engine and why it matters