The Business of Content with Simon Owens

By Simon Owens

The show about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content.

Episodes (13)

How a professional voice actor built a hit indie game studio

How Axios Local is leveraging AI to expand into smaller cities

How a yoga teacher turned bedtime stories into a media empire

This company is rewiring the economics of TV advertising

How a niche YouTube channel became a multi-platform travel business

Can media companies ever claw back advertising revenue from big tech?

This product review blog pivoted to video to protect itself from AI

The $100 billion problem lurking inside digital video ads

The 30-year-old PDF newsletter with a 98% market penetration rate

This media startup is trying to reach readers exhausted by political noise

Publishers are sitting on valuable audience data — many just aren't using it well

This independent magazine publisher doubled down on print

This former TV writer now produces prestige audio dramas for Audible, iHeart, and Spotify

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