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Sooooo - What DOES the Spotify Rogan Deal Tell Us About Its Future Plans?

Rogan plays on YouTube, Apple and everywhere else, and Spotify is still paying nine figures. The money buys the right to sell him.

Issa Rae, Jimmy Fallon and a Werewolf Walk Into a Microdrama

A format that grew up without famous names now has plenty of them, and the reason is more interesting than the werewolves

So, So Much Cake: What Your Default Streamer Says About Retention

SiriusXM and Giggly Squad and Fandoms, Oh My!

Howard Stern Cut His Show and Got HBO - We Cut Ours and All We Got Was This Lousy Whiteboard

Death by Violent Agreement - Nobody Green-lights Anything Alone

Disney, YouTube, and What Happens When Something Is Both Exclusive and Not

Of YouTube, The Sorting Hat and Revenue-Based House Assignments

Nobody Paying $100 Million for a Podcast Expects to Make It Back

It's systems, not content, that are driving outcomes in modern media

Streaming Growth Fell Into Single Digits, So HBO Max Built a TikTok

Netflix Decided You Should Only Find Out What You Watched Once a Year

Copy Starbucks' Barista Program, Inherit a Labor Bill Nobody Has Priced

Starbucks Just Turned Its Baristas Into Paid Media

YouTube Didn't Take a Cut of Creator Deals. It Took the Scoreboard.

Fox Is Paying $22 Billion to Buy the Remote, Not the Shows

Smart Money Just Bet $250 Million on Creators. Here's the One Question It Can't Answer Yet.

$100 Million to Take a Show Off YouTube

Podcasting's Dirty Secret: No One Wants Their Real Numbers (Me Included)

Data is both pleasure and pain (yes, that's me doing a faux-profound subtitle)

The Big Upfronts Story (Almost) No One Is Talking About

The New Newsletter Math - Puck, The Ankler and Me (plus a soupçon of hubris)

The Hamster Wheel That Eats Creators

The Difference Between a Cool Experience and a Business

A week at WXO, a round of The Traitors I probably should not have won, and the three operating decisions that separate experiences that scale from activations that don't

This Band Hasn't Toured in 45 Years. Their Show Made $133 Million. They Weren't In It.

Everyone Wants to Buy a Podcast. Again.

And not one of these buyers has ever published a feed.

Easter Eggs, Bunny Ears, and the Reason Your Audience Disappears by Week Four

Most content strategies are built for launch day. Almost none are built for week two.