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Bad on Mic

Steve Raizes

A self-aggrandizing newsletter about podcasting

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The End of Bad On Mic

This will be the final issue of Bad on Mic. Let the ritualistic gnashing of teeth and rending of garments begin.

But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Media, Built arrives next week. Bad on Mic started as an internal memo about podcast...

2 months ago
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What If We’ve Been Doing Podcasting Wrong This Whole Time?

For most of its history, podcasting has optimized for one number: downloads.

Downloads drive the charts (and god, everyone loves a good charting podcast). Downloads drive ad pricing. Downloads drive the way the industry talks about success...

2 months ago
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Of Cults, Vegas and the Quest for the Ultimate Immersive Experience

For my senior year thesis in college I joined a cult.

I was a sociology major and had been fascinated since I was a kid with the power of collective spaces and belonging. My family took me to Disney World and what stuck wasn’t just the rid...

3 months ago

One More Bite of the Apple

In some ways this felt inevitable. In others, surprising.

Which, to be fair, feels like an apt descriptor for the entire media space over the past year.

Last week Apple formally entered the video podcast space with a serious, fully featur...

3 months ago
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The Platform Pivot: Why Distribution Power Is Moving Upstream

The feed exclusivity era of podcasting is waning. All hail the dawn of the video-rights era. [cue “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”]

Small Window, Larger Signal.

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3 months ago

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