Simon Owens·Sep 4, 2024How Google could appease publishers with its generative AIWelcome! I’m Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. If you’ve received it, then you either subscribed or someone forwarded…
Simon Owens·Aug 31, 2024A huge live events opportunity for The New York TimesWelcome! I’m Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. If you’ve received it, then you either subscribed or someone forwarded…
Simon Owens·Feb 3, 2023How 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…
Simon Owens·Dec 9, 2022Investors 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…
Simon Owens·Dec 9, 2022It turns out media companies don’t make for very good tech companiesThe Rebooting writes about the death of the “platisher”
Simon Owens·Dec 9, 2022Will a recession bring direct-to-consumer brands back to podcasts?Bloomberg predicts a pullback in brand advertising could do just that:
Simon Owens·Dec 8, 2022How BookTok is fueling a resurgence in fiction readingAn author writes about what happened when her novel blew up on TikTok:
Simon Owens·Dec 7, 2022Netflix keeps breaking new viewership records while at the same time its subscriber growth is…Puck writes about the diminishing returns of streaming hits:
Simon Owens·Dec 7, 2022Growing 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…
