Zach Kahn — Senior Manager of Podcast Marketing, Vox Media

04/09/19 • 63 min

Chartable Radio

Our guest this week is Zach Kahn, the Senior Manager of Podcast Marketing at Vox Media.

We cover a lot of ground in this conversation, including:

How Zach got his dream job at Vox
The recently-announced Vox Media Podcast Network and its first show, Switched On Pop
Recent changes in the podcast industry
How to get listeners to subscribe to your podcast
The future of podcasting

You should follow Zach on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/zkahn

And check out the Vox Media Podcast Network here: https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/

Thanks for listening!

Our guest this week is Zach Kahn, the Senior Manager of Podcast Marketing at Vox Media.

We cover a lot of ground in this conversation, including:

How Zach got his dream job at Vox
The recently-announced Vox Media Podcast Network and its first show, Switched On Pop
Recent changes in the podcast industry
How to get listeners to subscribe to your podcast
The future of podcasting

You should follow Zach on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/zkahn

And check out the Vox Media Podcast Network here: https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/

Thanks for listening!

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Dan Misener - Head of Strategy & Audience Development, Pacific Content

Our guest today is Dan Misener, Head of Strategy & Audience Development at Pacific Content and host & producer of Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids.

We cover:

What's Pacific Content?
Dan's career path to podcasting, starting in public radio
The story behind GRTTWAK
Advice for building an audience
Shows with a history in public radio
What Dan's listening to
And of course, the future of podcastng

Find Dan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/misener

Listen to Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids—it's great!

Pacific Content lives here: https://pacific-content.com/

Thanks for listening!

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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
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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