The Business of Content with Simon Owens

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One of the great things about being a college journalism major today is that it’s incredibly easy for professors to build their own news sites and al…

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When Patrick O’Shaughnessy launched his podcast Invest Like the Best in 2016, he had no intention of building it into a media company. He just wanted…

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What does a professional travel photographer do when all international flights are shut down due to a global pandemic? That’s a question Gary Arndt f…

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When Jared Newman launched his Cord Cutter Weekly newsletter back in 2016, the streaming TV market was much smaller than it is today, with most TV ne…

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Today, the personal finance content niche is absolutely ginormous. You can’t open up YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram without encountering an influencer…

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I’m sure just about everybody has had the experience of looking at a celebrity memoir and wondering: did they actually write that? In many cases, the…

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Ben McCarthy didn’t set out to create a media company focused on Salesforce, he just began blogging about his use of the product as a way to document…

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When Joe Pulizzi launched The Tilt in 2021, he already had a pretty good idea of h…

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When it comes to knowing all the intricacies of real estate investment, few are more knowledgeable than Brad Hargreaves. In 2015 he founded Common, a…

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I spend most of my time on this show interviewing entrepreneurs who founded English-language media outlets – mostly because that’s the only language …

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Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: “Ask me a question.” Basically I told everyone to jump into the comment…

Before William Knight launched Early Morning Media, he had worked for years at a company that specialized in sending press clippings to corporate clients. While these services were mostly utilized by…

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The rise of cloud computing introduced all sorts of benefits for the enterprise software space. Not only could license holders access their accounts…

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I think everyone likes to think of themselves as being financially savvy, especially if, like me, you write about business topics, but how many of us…

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For most of Instagram’s existence, it wasn’t thought of as a platform for distributing news, but a growing number of media entrepreneurs have figured…

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Ask about just any media executive, and they’ll tell you that the year 2023 was not a good one for the advertising business. A combinati…

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By the time Riad Chikhani was 16 years old, he had already built a hugely successful online community for gamers and then sold it for a healthy sum. …

Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: “Ask me a question.” Basically I told everyone to jump in the comments section of the post and ask me any questions they …

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When Jack Karmer and Nick Martell launched their daily newsletter Market Snacks in 2011, they kept their names off the publication so that it wouldn’…

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It’s no secret that local journalism has struggled since the Great Recessions, with hundreds of newspapers shuttering and thousands of reporters losi…