Simon OwensHow Podnews became the podcast industry’s most influential newsletterWhile podcasting has been around since the mid-aughts, it’s only within the last half decade that the industry started generating…41 min read·Feb 3, 2023----
Simon OwensInvestors were way too bullish on esportsAre esports a growing market with a huge amount of future potential? Yes. Did investors get too far out ahead of their skis with assuming…1 min read·Dec 9, 2022----
Simon OwensIt turns out media companies don’t make for very good tech companiesThe Rebooting writes about the death of the “platisher”1 min read·Dec 9, 2022----
Simon OwensWill a recession bring direct-to-consumer brands back to podcasts?Bloomberg predicts a pullback in brand advertising could do just that:1 min read·Dec 9, 2022----
Simon OwensHow BookTok is fueling a resurgence in fiction readingAn author writes about what happened when her novel blew up on TikTok:1 min read·Dec 8, 2022----
Simon OwensNetflix keeps breaking new viewership records while at the same time its subscriber growth is…Puck writes about the diminishing returns of streaming hits:1 min read·Dec 7, 2022----
Simon OwensGrowing a tech company within a media company can be hardThe Wall Street Journal reports on why Jeff Bezos is considering spinning off Arc, the content management platform developed at the…1 min read·Dec 7, 2022----
Simon OwensHow should creators vet the brands they work with?Passionfruit wrote about the processes that some influencers undertake to vet brands before agreeing to work with them:1 min read·Dec 7, 2022----
Simon OwensSiriusXM overtakes Spotify as the most popular podcast producerThis seems pretty significant:1 min read·Dec 7, 2022----