22 min

Hot Pod’s Nicholas Quah on the Flourishing Podcast Industry Now & Next

    • TV & Film

On this episode of Now & Next we journey into the business aspects of one of the buzziest areas of the media landscape: Podcasting. And really, there’s nobody better to explain the dramatic changes playing out in the audio space than Nicholas Quah.

He’s a veteran of a bunch of online media companies that you probably know, like Business Insider and BuzzFeed. He’s also a contributing writer to New York Magazine, he’s been a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard, and he’s also the founder of Hot Pod, the leading newsletter about podcasts.

To download a transcript of this episode, to consult the show’s credits and to dive deeper into the topic at hand, visit trends.cmf-fmc.ca.

Excerpts in the opening:

(00:21) - Podcasts on TV: Big Successes and Major Flops by the CBC on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)
(00:26) - Sarah Koenig Interviewed the Taliban for ‘Serial’ by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)
(00:35) - Podcasts See Massive Boom in Listeners and Investment by CGTN America on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)

On this episode of Now & Next we journey into the business aspects of one of the buzziest areas of the media landscape: Podcasting. And really, there’s nobody better to explain the dramatic changes playing out in the audio space than Nicholas Quah.

He’s a veteran of a bunch of online media companies that you probably know, like Business Insider and BuzzFeed. He’s also a contributing writer to New York Magazine, he’s been a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard, and he’s also the founder of Hot Pod, the leading newsletter about podcasts.

To download a transcript of this episode, to consult the show’s credits and to dive deeper into the topic at hand, visit trends.cmf-fmc.ca.

Excerpts in the opening:

(00:21) - Podcasts on TV: Big Successes and Major Flops by the CBC on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)
(00:26) - Sarah Koenig Interviewed the Taliban for ‘Serial’ by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)
(00:35) - Podcasts See Massive Boom in Listeners and Investment by CGTN America on YouTube (URL on trends.cmf-fmc.ca)

22 min

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