Chartable Radio

Our guest this week is Justin Jackson, the cofounder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting platform targeted at businesses. We cover:

• Why Justin started Transistor
• Cofounder relationships
• What it takes to grow a podcast audience
• Justin's thoughts on Anchor (this was recorded pre-acquisition)

Justin shares some real truths about the difficulty of making something new, different, and great in the world.

Thanks for listening! - Dave, CEO, Chartable.com

Our guest today is James Cridland, Radio Futurologist and Editor of podnews.net, the on-demand audio industry's must-read daily newsletter.

Topics covered include:

the early days of Podnews - how podcasting fits in with radio - a global perspective on podcasting - what, if anything is holding podcasting back - podcast stats and charts - and James' favorite podcasts of 2018

If you don't already subscribe, you should! https://podnews.net

Interviewed by Dave Zohrob, co-founder of Chartable.com, the best podcast analytics and intelligence in the industry.

We'll be back with another interview in February!

Chartable co-founders Dave and Harish return to discuss what they've been working on in 2020, what they have planned for Chartable in 2021, which podcasts they've been listening to lately, and more.

Discussed in this episode:

• What's been going on at Chartable since the last episode of Chartable Radio
• A quick overview of Chartable's products and features (podcast analytics & attribution tools for publishers and advertisers)
• The rollout of Chartable 2.0 and what improvements we've made
• Why we're excited about what we have planned for 2021
• Growing the Chartable team
• Which podcasts we've been listening to lately

Podcast Recommendations:

• Floodlines: The story of an unnatural disaster
• Lost Notes: Stevie Wonder
• The Daily
• Fiasco
• Deep Questions with Cal Newport
• Dithering

Other Links:

• Sign up for a free Chartable account today
• Follow Chartable on Twitter
• Listen to more episodes of Chartable Radio

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and review in your podcast app of choice, and send any feedback or questions you have to [email protected].

Today's guest is Jack Rhysider, host and producer of Darknet Diaries. Jack dives deep into his original research on how to build a following on Patreon.

We cover:

• How he built the initial audience for Darknet Diaries
• How he went full-time on his show
• Things that top Patreon shows haven in common
• What it takes to make something that's worth supporting
• Whether or not to go exclusive to an app

Follow Jack on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jackrhysider

Check out more of his research on his blog: https://lime.link/blog/analysis-of-top-podcast/

Listen to Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/

Thanks for listening!

This week's guest is Skye Pillsbury, the writer and curator of Inside Podcasting, a daily podcasting newsletter from Inside.com.

We cover:

• How Skye got started in podcasting:
• Skye's background in tech PR, and the parallels between the dot-com boom in the Bay Area in the 90's/early 2000s to what's happening now
• What it was like to be a guest on the Gimlet podcast Heavyweight (a great story!)
• How putting out daily content is hard
• What it's like to go from pitching to receiving PR pitches
• What Skye is listening to right now, and hopes for the future of podcasting

You can follow Skye on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/SkyePillsbury

Subscribe to Inside Podcasting here: https://inside.com/ And check out Skye's episode of Heavyweight here—it's a great listen: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/o2hobr/17-skye