The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices

Feb 02 2025 100 ep. 39 mins 359
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Media Voices is a weekly look at all the news and views from across the media world, featuring leading figures from media and publishing businesses

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Hearst's Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful

Feb 02 2025 34 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In the two years since joining Hearst, the company has launched and revamped membership programmes for Elle, Good Housekeeping, Men's Health and Women's Health, and soon Prima and Runner's W

January 2025 wrap-up

Jan 29 2025 44 mins  
In this bonus episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, Chris Sutcliffe, Esther Thorpe and Peter Houston take a look at what’s happened in the world of media in January. A bonus monthly wrap-up of key news is something new we’re trialling following feedback which said you missed the three of us together and our take on what’s going on. Here we discuss the boost to pub

Which?'s Hannah Ballantyne on the importance of social media for building trust and relevance

Jan 26 2025 33 mins  
In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we speak to Hannah Ballantyne, Senior Social Media Manager at Which?, a not-for-profit consumer-focused publication. Hannah contributed to a fascinating article in InPublishing late last year about steering the brand's debut on TikTok; a strategy which has won the team awards. With the ongoing saga between platforms, publishers and p

1440's Tim Huelskamp on finding white space for a newsletter-based media business

Jan 19 2025 39 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast we hear from Tim Huelskamp, CEO and co-founder of 1440, a daily curated newsletter that now reaches over 4 million daily readers. He tells us about finding white space in the newsletter market, the forecast for newsletter advertising, whether the claim to be ‘unbiased’ is a selling point for audiences, and what it means to be an employee-owned

Wessenden Marketing’s Jim Bilton on publisher product priorities for 2025 and beyond

Jan 12 2025 45 mins  
We’re kicking off 2025’s first season of The Publisher Podcast by talking to Jim Bilton, Managing Director at Wessenden Marketing and Brandlab Research. Jim produces bimonthly research and updates on the business of content distribution through WessendenBriefing, and has decades of experience consulting for media businesses. In this episode, we explore the standout publisher pr

Pod in a Pub: Publishing's pivotal moments this year, and predictions for 2025

Dec 01 2024 41 mins  
This episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices – our last for this season – was recorded at the White Swan in Aldgate, London on November 27th in front of a live audience. In the absence of our usual annual Media Moments report*, we took a fun look back at some of the pivotal publishing moments of the year, and what 2025 might have in store. The audience were invited to

Dow Jones' Emma O'Brian on the backroom magic behind a specialised portfolio

Nov 24 2024 38 mins  
In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we hear from Emma O’Brian, SVP Strategy for Dow Jones. Everyone knows Dow Jones – or at least a few parts of its portfolio, even if they don’t know it as part of the greater organisation. But as the company moves from a portfolio-based business to a vertical-oriented publishing and information one, how is that impacting its bac

Will Hayward on relaunching a successful solo newsletter

Nov 17 2024 28 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Will Hayward, journalist, author and columnist specialising in Welsh politics. He also writes The Will Hayward Newsletter, which he relaunched in September after running it for nearly a year as one of Reach plc's Substack experiments, where it won Best Politics Newsletter at this year's Publisher Newsletter Awards.

Media Briefs: BlueConic’s Patrick Crane on managing data strategies in times of constant transformation

Nov 13 2024 21 mins  
Third-party cookies aren’t going away any time soon, but many publishers have already reduced dependency on them as a revenue stream. As the landscape continues to shift, what should publishers looking towards the longer term be thinking of when it comes to their own data strategies, and how can various types of first-party data play a part? This is the latest in our Media Briefs

Total Politics' Ludovica D'Angelo on the primacy of product in a shifting media landscape

Nov 10 2024 42 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast, as part of the product-oriented remit we’ve set ourselves for the series, we hear from Ludovica D’Angelo, Director of Publishing Operations for the Total Politics Group. As we discuss in the episode, that’s a very specialised publishing business – and a commensurately specialised role. But for Ludovica, who has previously worked for publi