This feature has been written in partnership with Memberful. Hear more in our interview with Jen Matichuk, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Memberful, discussing how membership programmes can...
Newsletter bundles and Live Q&As: How Bloomberg’s product portfolio is evolving with audience needs
Last month, we reported on how Bloomberg Media has focused on an audience-first publishing strategy since the end of 2022. In this second article from our interview with Bloomberg Media’s Global...
Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Podcast Awards 2025
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the sixth year of the Publisher Podcast Awards. From hundreds of entries, this shortlist of 120+ represents the very best in publisher...
The power of community: How Black Ballad has redefined membership and engagement
At the 2024 Publisher Newsletter Summit, Tobi Oredein, co-founder of Black Ballad, shared key insights on how building direct audience relationships, harnessing data, and using smart monetisation...
Immediate Media: rethinking the publishing process to maximise ROI
Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio, says the central challenge for any modern media business is to maximise the ROI on every piece of content they...
Tips for a successful podcast launch from Deutsche Welle’s Don’t Drink The Milk
No matter how passionate you are about your podcast topic, it means nothing if you don’t solve the problem of promoting it. With Don’t Drink The Milk, the DW team have found numerous ways...
Meeting users where they are: inside Bloomberg Media’s approach to product innovation
Bloomberg Media went all-in on an audience-first publishing strategy at the end of 2022, dropping programmatic advertising and committing to actively listening to its audiences. A little over two...
How to write an award-winning entry
This is a write-up of a Publisher Masterclass we held about how to write an award-winning entry to the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Awards. The advice here is just for Media Voices' awards...
Why human-first audio is pivotal to Zetland’s subscription success
Danish news start-up Zetland’s ‘user needs’ approach led them to identify the importance of audio early on. CEO Tav Klitgaard describes how audio has gone from being a test to one of the...
How dismantling silos gave Metro’s newsletter team room to experiment
Metro.co.uk’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton explains how the freesheet’s newsletters went from free-for-all to a structured, sophisticated newsletter production...
Metro’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton on the future of publishers’ newsletters
In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, Metro.co.uk's Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton takes us through... everything newsletter.
From how the Metro's redesign allowed the...
Why Discord has become a key tool to build the Women’s Running magazine community
Messaging platform Discord has grown to be a core community-building tool at Women's Running. Senior Editor Esther Newman explains how it has helped the publication centre women and learn...
How Reach plc hit 100 million followers across its social channels
The UK’s largest regional publisher has hit a major milestone in its social strategy – but its Engagement Director Dan Russell explains that the ‘big number’ is far from the end of...
Reach Plc’s Dan Russell on achieving 4 million referrals from WhatsApp
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Dan Russell, Reach Plc's Engagement Director (for short). Reach Plc achieved its best ever month for traffic in January, based in no...
How a focus on events has driven B2B publication Press Gazette to triple-digit revenue growth
Journalism industry news site Press Gazette has seen recent expansion of its events and an overhaul of its newsletter and other digital products. Chief Commercial Officer Richard Jamieson outlines...
Live content’s role in the fight to engage, attract and retain readers
This feature has been written in partnership with SaaS solutions provider Norkon. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with Norkon CEO, Eirik Næsje, and VP of Sales, Birger Søiland,...
Introducing memberships to Hearst’s iconic magazine portfolio: “There’s no one-size-fits-all,” says Katie Vanneck Smith
Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith talks about communicating membership benefits, putting brands at the heart of the proposition and the importance of publishing teams in making magazine...
Hearst’s Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful
This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In...
The Publisher Podcast January 2025 wrap-up: Consumers back journalism, billionaire media bros show true colours, and Schrödinger’s app (TikTok)
In this bonus episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, Chris Sutcliffe, Esther Thorpe and Peter Houston take a look at what's happened in the world of media in January. A bonus monthly...
56 million views in 2 years: How Which? crafts a TikTok strategy to appeal to consumers
Which?'s Hannah Ballantyne discusses how they approached launching on TikTok, the content that resonates with audiences there, and the value to the publication of having a presence on the...
When should you take – or not take – VC funding for a new media business? The slow-growth philosophy of 1440
Venture Capital (VC) funding has helped to launch some of the most successful media brands of our time. But, as newsletter-based media business 1440 demonstrates, there are still benefits...
1440’s Tim Huelskamp on finding white space for a newsletter-based media business
This week on The Publisher Podcast we hear from Tim Huelskamp, CEO and co-founder of 1440, a daily curated newsletter that now reaches over 4 million daily readers. He tells us about finding white...
Product strategies: what publishers should be prioritising in 2025
There has never been a more fragmented or complex landscape for publishers to navigate when it comes to prioritising and investing in product strategies. Methods of...
Wessenden Marketing’s Jim Bilton on publisher product priorities for 2025 and beyond
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...
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...
From portfolio- to vertical-oriented: the new strategic alignment behind Dow Jones’ brands
Dow Jones is more than simply the index that bears its name. Its stable of publications – including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and many more – are vital for those...
Dow Jones’ Emma O’Brian on the backroom magic behind a specialised portfolio
In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we hear from Emma O’Brian, SVP Strategy for Dow Jones. Everyone knows Dow Jones – or at least a few parts of its portfolio, even if they...
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...