About this podcast
The Rebooting Show gets into the weeds with those building and operating media businesses, giving an open view into how the smartest people in the media business are building sustainable media businesses. https://www.therebooting.com/ (www.therebooting.com)
Episodes
The newest 20 of 258 episodes
- Google Zero by the numbers · 35 min · Episode 258Sharon Profis, vp of audience innovation at Raptive, joins me to walk through what the company is seeing across its network of 7,000 publishers and creators. Google traffic is…
- Reuters' Paul Bascobert on the AI production shock · 44 min · Episode 257Publishers know how to live through distribution shocks. AI is a different kind of disruption. Reuters president Paul Bascobert argues it’s a production shock, one that pushes…
- The anti-AI bet on print · 41 min · Episode 256Adam Reek and Bradley Roe spent 16 years building Peloton magazine, sold it to Outside, and watched it get shut down. Then they started over. Fausto is a high-end print magazine…
- Inside the knowledge creator business · 51 min · Episode 255Josh Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of Smooth Media, a talent management company for knowledge creators: people like Joanna Stern, Matt Wolf, Cat GPT and the Breaking and Entering…
- The Lever's David Sirota on challenging 'corporate media' · 57 min · Episode 254The Lever founder David Sirota joins me to discuss why corporate media still sets the terms of the political conversation, even as its business model weakens. We get into the…
- The Atlantic’s Nick Thompson on preparing for a post-web world · 24 min · Episode 253The Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson is preparing for a media business where the web plays a far smaller role. That could mean more print issues, stronger relationships between readers…
- The Guardian's Anna Bateson on adapting to AI · 30 min · Episode 252The Guardian CEO Anna Bateson is a realist. She sees the need to prepare for when publishers are connecting information to AI pipes. “Our website may become something that is…
- The mushy middle of AI adoption · 48 min · Episode 251Publishers are adding AI tools, but the news product remains largely unchanged. Martin Schiori, former deputy publisher and AI lead at Sweden’s Aftonbladet and now co-founder of…
- Playboy's next act · 40 min · Episode 250Playboy is rebuilding itself as a lifestyle brand for a new era. President David Miller joins me to discuss why content is now the brand’s marketing engine, the return of the…
- Media's life after the pageview · 41 min · Episode 249Complex president Moksha Fitzgibbons joins Brian Morrissey to discuss the company’s evolution from an advertising-dependent publisher into a business spanning media, commerce and…
- EX.CO's Paul Jelinek on TV Advertising's 'Major Transformation' · 13 min · Episode 248Paul Jelinek, chief business officer at EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to lay out why CTV programmatic…
- The return of movie theaters · 41 min · Episode 247Never bet against the need of young people to get out of the home and socialize. Movie theaters are seeing a revival, driven by young audiences. Geoff Schiller, CEO of movie…
- Inside Spotify's bet on agentic advertising · 17 min · Episode 246Per Sendall, co-head of ads at Spotify, joins Brian Morrissey in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to break down how AI agents are already…
- How Famous Birthdays managed ‘Google Zero’ · 47 min · Episode 245Famous Birthdays is a classic open web publishing success story. Evan Britton bootstrapped the publisher to fill a simple need: People were seeking out information about the new…
- The portal's comeback · 17 min · Episode 244Rob Wilk, CRO of Yahoo, joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that 30-year-old Yahoo is in the middle of a genuine…
- WSJ's Josh Stinchcomb on why events are key · 12 min · Episode 243Events have moved from a side business to a core commercial product at The Wall Street Journal. CRO Josh Stinchcomb says the long lead times and scarcity let publishers lock in…
- NBCU product chief: Big Tech is 'cherry-picking' · 21 min · Episode 242Ryan McConville, chief product officer at NBCUniversal, joins me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that premium video has been…
- Subsidizing investigative journalism · 40 min · Episode 241Funding investigative journalism is a unique challenge. On The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Scott Stedman, an independent investigative journalist who is using a coffee…
- Agentic advertising isn't ready for primetime · 15 min · Episode 240Agentic advertising was the buzzword of the year at Cannes this year. It stands to reason this hype is ahead of reality. Jon Roberts, chief innovation officer at People Inc…
- Workweek's Adam Ryan is betting on practitioner media · 50 min · Episode 239One of the more promising areas of media is expert practitioners who are both good at their jobs and at explaining their fields. Workweek is a B2B media company built with this…
