Podcasts And Pizza's Podcast About Podcasting For Podcasters

Special thanks to Stitcher for sponsoring our event!   Stitcher is a free podcast app, available on iOS and Android, that smartly recommends podcasts based on your interests. With Stitcher you can add your favorite podcasts to a playlist and get exclusive podcasts you can’t get on any other app!   Join the Podcast & Pizza email list to make sure you don't miss an event: https://tinyletter.com/podcastsandpizza More info about Western Sound is here: http://western-sound.com   See you next time.   Thanks, Ben

Hrishikesh Hirway, host, creator and producer of Song Exploder and West Wing Weekly, came to Podcasts & Pizza. It was a super interest conversation about his unlikely route to podcasting, how he's built his podcasts and his business, a few marketing tips and more!  Special thanks to KCRW's Independent Producer Project for sponsoring the event. Click over to kcrw.com/ipp to find out all about the August Radio Race! Also, thanks to Stephen Colon audiolinkla.com for recording the talk. Enjoy!  And don't forget to sign up at tinyletter.com/podcastsandpizza to learn about future events.

Hernan Lopez, CEO of Wondery, came to Podcasts and Pizza to talk about his first year in business, what podcasting can learn from TV and why true crime will never go away. Super interesting conversation! Special thanks to American Public Media for sponsoring the event. And to Stephen Colon audiolinkla.com for recording the talk. Enjoy!  And don't forget to sign up at tinyletter.com/podcastsandpizza to learn about future events.

The LA Podcast Festival was founded by Dave Anthony (The Dollop), Graham Elwood (Comedy Film Nerds) and Chris Mancini (Comedy Film Nerds) — and is happening next week!  Besides building an incredibly awesome festival, these guys have been heavily involved in podcasting since the early days — participating in its growth from niche to mainstream.  They brought a really interesting perspective that's really different from mine and the previous Podcasts and Pizza guests. They were super honest and really thoughtful about where podcasting's been, where it's going and what they think works and doesn't.  All in all, an awesome listen!

Chris Bannon is chief content officer for Midroll media. He knows a lot about making new, engaging shows that become big hits. He was VP of content development and production at WNYC before moving over to Midroll early last year. At Midroll, he's spearheading new shows, including the new hit Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, which is really awesome. He's also polishing the company's entire roster of shows and working really hard to diversify Midroll's talent base.  He came to Podcasts and Pizza on June 15th and a spirited discussion was held!

Eric Nuzum is the senior vice president for original content at Audible. He's head of a major initiative at the audiobook company to create new things for the world to listen to. He stopped by Podcasts and Pizza, an LA meet up of podcast producers for an AMA on everything he's up to at Audible, how he sees the industry shaping up and what's important to him right now. To get info about this LA podcasting meet up, sign up for the tinyletter: tinyletter.com/lapodcasting This podcast feed features recordings of speakers at our events :) Thanks for listening, Ben Adair Host of the meet up and First Time Last Time podcast Here are my notes on what Eric talks about: 0:00 – Intro 4:50 – Eric Nuzum starts talking. 7:02 – The definition of radio is changing. Radio is an experience. If you're not making an experience, you're dead. 10:08 – The reason that more people don't listen to podcasts is because they don't hear things that are relevant to them.  11:20 – We've built a team of people at Audible who are asking these