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2025-02-19

  Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional media. Except that's not true: The games business is now in a prolonged and confusing funk. Investor and analyst Matthew Ball has been diving deep into t...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-02-12

  BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?

A decade ago BuzzFeed was the bleeding edge of digital media, and Serious People thought it was going to be a threat to the likes of the New York Times. Many rounds of layoffs and asset sales later, BuzzFeed is a much more modest operation. But say thi...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-02-05

  Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of United States. And sports leagues and the media companies that worked with them wanted nothing to do with anything that even referenced gambling. Things ar...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-01-29

  How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek

I haven’t checked in with Jessica Lessin in some time — and I have to say I picked a pretty good time to catch up with her. Because Silicon Valley is undergoing something meaningful right now, and she’s in a great position to tell us more about it: Les...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-01-22

  How TikTok (still) works

TikTok banned itself for less than a day. Now it’s back in the U.S. - despite a law that says it shouldn’t be operating. We’re not going to weigh in on all of the… weirdness around the last few days on this episode, in part because we don’t know how it...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-01-15

  How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?

Why didn’t Meta’s stock move when Mark Zuckerberg announced his pro-MAGA pivot? Why do big media companies want to dump their cable TV networks — but hang on to their broadcast TV networks? What’s going to happen in Google’s antitrust case?These are al...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2025-01-08

  Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet

I’m a lucky man. Whenever I’m baffled by the internet, and social media, I turn to my co-worker Katie Notopoulos, who is there to explain it to me. That’s because Katie’s job at Business Insider is to explain how the internet works — how the people who...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2024-12-18

  Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

I don’t love a lot of year-end #content . But I do love talking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw every year, to help put the year in media in perspective, and to think about what might be coming in 2025. And that’s exactly what we did here. Enjoy it now, or o...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2024-12-11

  1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable

Newsletters are not a new idea. Yet every few years the media business rediscovers them, anyway — either as a way to quickly launch a startup with bigger ambitions, or as a standalone business. Tim Huelskamp took the second route in 2017, when he co-fo...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author
2024-12-04

  Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0

You probably shouldn't know Renee DiResta's name: She's a researcher who studies online bad behavior, not a celebrity. But the work DiReata did studying the "stop the steal" movement after 2020 has made her famous in some corners of the internet, and n...
  Vox Media Podcast Network author