Recode Media with Peter Kafka
What happens when media, entertainment, and technology collide? Host Peter Kafka, one of the media industry’s most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters to get their take. Recode Media is produced by Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here.
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Plus: How to build a successful media business with no advertising, no VC funding and no drama.
The “Tipping Point” author and New Yorker columnist is getting into audio.
Just don’t call it “son of Grantland.” Fennessey says The Ringer is a “distant cousin that shares genes.”
Instead, his next film will star Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgård.
“My business will do very well if we figure out how to super-serve 73 million fans.”
“Crowdsourcing anything on the internet is usually a positive thing.”
“It’s not like we’ve solved the diversity problem, but we do need to kind of keep the needle pushing forward.”
Plus: He was still on the fence about dropping the N-word while giving the speech.
“I always wanted to be in this business because I wanted to write about people who look like me.”
“Trump is an entertainer. Most of the candidates don’t even know what entertainment is.”
Also: “It’s never been easier to become a VC, but in the next few years, it’ll never be harder to stay one.”
The unicorn in question, HubSpot, isn’t too happy about Lyons’ new book, “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble.”
Consumers hate advertising, but only when it looks like advertising.
“We are seeing the Republican Party on the verge of falling apart.”
“There’s always a shit-ton of work to do to build a new media brand.”
“If ‘Breaking Bad’ had aired five years earlier, it might not have made it past season one.”
Email was “the best marketing tool” for Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin in 2012. What’s next?
“Either you’re going to compete, or you’re going to come up with excuses for why you got your ass kicked.”
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“You can lead the audience through this labyrinth. You can have twists that are true.”
“There are no legal issues in this. The Internet doesn’t belong to any entity.”
Also: Is that Hulk Hogan lawsuit actually a blessing in disguise?
“The bigger we get, the harder it is to get people to realize: We don’t have to do things the way we’ve done them for the last six months.”
“It’s hard to build trust amongst this generation. They’re super skeptical, very upset with older generations.”
“If we’re fine with Facebook and Google knowing it, we should really be fine with using it to fight crime and terrorism.”
“The power of individuals as little media companies is rising.”
Also: Some insight into the shifting moods of Twitter’s board, and Medium’s plans for making money.
“They just don’t have the balls to put their face and name on anything they say.”
“Can the Internet reach as many fans as television?” The NFL isn’t ruling it out, but ...
“What used to be ‘surfing the Web’ is now ‘surfing Facebook.’”