We're kicking off 2025's first season of The Publisher Podcast by talking to Jim Bilton, Managing Director at Wessenden Marketing and Brandlab Research. Jim produces bimonthly research and updates...
Media Voices co-founder
Some end-of-season reflections
Here’s how the first few months of our pivot from general media coverage to a more specialised publisher product focus has gone.
Over the summer, we announced that...
The Top Media Newsletters
We at Media Voices get a LOT of media newsletters between us to keep on top of everything that's going on.
Here are our recommendations of the top media and publishing newsletters to sign up...
Pod in a Pub: Publishing’s pivotal moments this year, and predictions for 2025
This episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices - our last for this season - was recorded at the White Swan in Aldgate, London on November 27th in front of a live...
The risks and rewards of going solo: Will Hayward’s relaunched Welsh political newsletter takes off
Author and journalist Will Hayward was one of a group of experimental paid Substack newsletters launched by regional publisher Reach plc last year. But in September, he decided to take the plunge...
Will Hayward on relaunching a successful solo newsletter
This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Will Hayward, journalist, author and columnist specialising in Welsh politics. He also writes The Will Hayward Newsletter, which...
Pod in a Pub: Media Voices Live Podcast & end of year drinks
Come and join the Media Voices team for a look back at the year in media in podcast form...of course!
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3 lessons on creating and selling B2B podcasts from Farmers Weekly
Smaller numbers of listeners shouldn’t be an insurmountable challenge for B2B publishers. By focusing on the quality and engagement of that audience, and working with existing sponsors on...
Farmers Weekly’s Daniel Smith on creating and monetising a podcast for farmers
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Daniel Smith, Managing Director of the Mark Allen Group's Agriculture division, which includes brands like Farmers...
Why the Toronto Star sees micropayments as a key part of subscriber acquisition
The Toronto Star’s Chief Revenue Officer Brandon Grosvenor says that they are very much in the infancy of their micropayments experiment - or as he calls it, microsubscriptions....
Torstar Corporation’s Brandon Grosvenor on early micropayment experiments
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to Brandon Grosvenor, Chief Revenue Officer at Torstar Corporation, home of The Toronto Star. Over the summer, The Toronto...
7 lessons from a year of paywalled podcasts at The Economist
One year ago, The Economist took a leap of faith and moved all their podcasts (bar one) behind a paywall. It’s paid off, with the publisher saying they have retained 80% of listeners....
The Economist’s John Shields on growing subscriber-only podcasts
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to John Shields, Director of Podcasts at The Economist. They made the bold move last year to put almost all their podcasts...
Why the Evening Standard put the podcast at the heart of its sustainable travel campaign
The conversation around podcast revenue can, too often, focus on just the podcast itself. But podcasts can be a powerful tool as part of - or even at the heart of - a wider commercial campaign....
The Evening Standard’s Simon Kurs on an award-winning commercial podcast strategy
On this week's episode - the first of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices - we speak to Simon Kurs, Commercial Editor at the Evening Standard.
The publisher won Best Commercial Strategy at...
Info: The Publisher Summits
We are excited to be bringing the Publisher Podcast Summit & Awards and the Publisher Newsletter Summit & Awards back to London in June 2025, and for the first time, Publisher App and...
Introducing BlueConic as our relaunch sponsor
Following our decision to reposition as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing's future, we at Media Voices are delighted to be able to welcome...
Introducing the winners of The Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2024's Publisher Newsletter Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Tuesday 23rd July at The Union Regents,...
5 podcast and newsletter lessons from leading publishers, with journalism.co.uk
Newsletters and podcasts have a lot in common. As well as being low-cost, they can be intimate and personal; perfect for building lasting relationships with readers and...
Introducing The Publisher Portfolio: the next phase of Media Voices
TLDR: Media Voices is repositioning as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing’s future.
2024 has...
6 tips for media leaders on implementing AI
Whether you see AI as friend or foe to the media industry, there are numerous ways automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can be used by publishers to improve the...
What this year’s Publisher Podcast Awards finalists show about podcasting in 2024
In the five years we’ve been running the Publisher Podcast Awards, a great deal has changed in the industry. Publishers have become a great deal more confident at...
5 things we learned about the state of podcasts from the Digital News Report 2024
June is marked every year by the release of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s Digital News Report. The report this year tells a story of news media increasingly challenged by...
Introducing the winners of 2024’s Publisher Podcast Awards
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2024’s Publisher Podcast Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Wednesday 12th June at Salsa Temple in London.
The awards are a...
Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024
Media Voices are proud to reveal the shortlist for the second year of the Publisher Newsletter Awards. More than 100 newsletters have made the cut across 16 categories, from global news...
Preview: The Publisher Podcast & Newsletter Summit 2024
While the podcast is on a break we've been hard at work assembling the industry's best and brightest publishers to share the strategies and learnings behind their successful podcasts and...
First sessions and workshops revealed for the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Summits
Are you a publisher with newsletters or podcasts? Then you absolutely must have Wednesday June 12th in your diary.
We're assembling some of the industry's leading publishers...
“The risk of losing people in the newsletter world has declined:” What happened to The Atlantic’s newsletters for subscribers scheme
The pandemic years saw a number of high-profile journalists leave publications to launch their own newsletters. Although lockdowns were credited as a driving...
The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson on milestones, paywalls, and setting future goals
In this bonus episode of Media Voices, we hear from Nicholas Thompson, CEO at The Atlantic. We first had Nicholas as a guest on the podcast back in 2019 when he was WIRED's Editor in Chief, about...
Podnews’ James Cridland on running a profitable newsletter-first publication
On this week's episode - the last of the season - we hear from James Cridland, Podnews editor and radio futurologist. Podnews is a daily email newsletter about everything podcasting, and is one of...