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Mother of PodcastsThe wide gap from Media Class to Newsroom ChaosIn this new episode, we sit with Mohit Kaushik, a former journalist-turned-podcaster to discuss the gap between journalism studies and the reality of media industry. Mohit is also a Relationship and life coach. We discuss how the syllabus of Indian media institutes is outdated and needs an overhaul. We also talk about how the standard of Indian journalism is degrading and how mainstream news channels are only running after TRP. You must watch this episode if:✅ You want to be a journalist.✅ You want to know careers beyond reporting, news anchoring.✅ You want to stand out in this rat race.F...2025-06-231h 05
Buzz to BusinessPodcast #26: California’s Creative Economy – Insights from the 2025 Otis ReportIn this episode of Buzz to Business, we dig into the Otis College Report on California’s Creative Economy (2025)—a key resource for students pursuing careers in the arts, media, and design sectors. If you’re dreaming of working in film, fashion, fine arts, or digital media, this episode breaks down what’s happening across the state—and what it means for your future.🎭 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:🎬 Why California remains the #1 hub for creative industries, despite recent job contractions📊 How sectors like film, TV, and new media are adapting po...2025-05-2713 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: InfiniteAnalytics Can they Predict What you Will Buy Next?Roy Weissman of Media Jobs interviews Arjun Mendhi, the Director of Products for Infinite Analytics to uncover why his software won against two of the established players in a recent test on a major ecommerce site.If you want to work in the future today then this media job at Infinite Analytics could be for you. Infinite Analytics enables their customers to use their eCommerce data to predict consumer behavior and personalize experiences. Infinite Analytics utilizes machine learning, natural language processing, random forest modeling, image recognition, and semantic technologies to drive increased sales and conversions on client sites.2016-07-2228 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: InfiniteAnalytics Can they Predict What you Will Buy Next?Roy Weissman of Media Jobs interviews Arjun Mendhi, the Director of Products for Infinite Analytics to uncover why his software won against two of the established players in a recent test on a major ecommerce site.If you want to work in the future today then this media job at Infinite Analytics could be for you. Infinite Analytics enables their customers to use their eCommerce data to predict consumer behavior and personalize experiences. Infinite Analytics utilizes machine learning, natural language processing, random forest modeling, image recognition, and semantic technologies to drive increased sales and conversions on client sites.2016-07-2228 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: Laugh.ly The Digital Comedy PlayWe talk with Dave Scott, the CEO of Laugh.ly about how he expects to turn comedy into a lucrative business. Listen in to learn about how profitable a laugh can be. "The reason I started Laugh.ly was because I actually did stand-up comedy for a year. After I sold my last company, I did open mics and then worked my way up to big headliners and I realized how much people love comedy. In fact, of the 160 people that actually have accounts on Facebook, 91 million of them actually say that stand-up comedy is one of their...2016-07-2109 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: Laugh.ly The Digital Comedy PlayWe talk with Dave Scott, the CEO of Laugh.ly about how he expects to turn comedy into a lucrative business. Listen in to learn about how profitable a laugh can be. "The reason I started Laugh.ly was because I actually did stand-up comedy for a year. After I sold my last company, I did open mics and then worked my way up to big headliners and I realized how much people love comedy. In fact, of the 160 people that actually have accounts on Facebook, 91 million of them actually say that stand-up comedy is one of their...2016-07-2109 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: Piqued Optimizing Beauty for ConsumersMedia Jobs Roy Weissman interviews Helen Hann and Annie Peng from Piqed. Can data lead to a more beautiful you? Helen and Annie from Piqued (pronounced like picked) think so. They have created a product designed to help you find the best beauty products for your skin and look. Using a data driven model and information from your past experiences Piqed will help you choose the beauty products that will work best for you.2016-07-1110 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: Piqued Optimizing Beauty for ConsumersMedia Jobs Roy Weissman interviews Helen Hann and Annie Peng from Piqed. Can data lead to a more beautiful you? Helen and Annie from Piqued (pronounced like picked) think so. They have created a product designed to help you find the best beauty products for your skin and look. Using a data driven model and information from your past experiences Piqed will help you choose the beauty products that will work best for you.2016-07-1110 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews Timelooper and Takes You Back in TimeIf you’re looking for a virtual reality media job and you are a history buff then Timelooper could be the place for you.Travel back 750 years of more using this new mobile app from Timelooper, a location based virtual reality mobile application created to provide more dimensions to your travel.2016-07-0713 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews Timelooper and Takes You Back in TimeIf you’re looking for a virtual reality media job and you are a history buff then Timelooper could be the place for you.Travel back 750 years of more using this new mobile app from Timelooper, a location based virtual reality mobile application created to provide more dimensions to your travel.2016-07-0713 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: FuseMachines Artificial Intelligence Lead MachineAt Media Jobs we are always interested in finding the most innovative companies where you might want to work. The big talk today is about Artificial Intelligence and today we're talking with a company that is using the technology to drive more sales.The artificial Intelligence lead machine has arrived! The name of the lead master is Fusemachines and Sameer Maskey, Founder and CEO, and his team have been developing the software that applies Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to the process of lead generation for B2B companies.Its taken 3 PHD's and 30 engineers...2016-06-2520 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMedia Jobs Interviews: FuseMachines Artificial Intelligence Lead MachineAt Media Jobs we are always interested in finding the most innovative companies where you might want to work. The big talk today is about Artificial Intelligence and today we're talking with a company that is using the technology to drive more sales.The artificial Intelligence lead machine has arrived! The name of the lead master is Fusemachines and Sameer Maskey, Founder and CEO, and his team have been developing the software that applies Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to the process of lead generation for B2B companies.Its taken 3 PHD's and 30 engineers...2016-06-2520 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Talkitt: Giving Disabled People a VoiceAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a disability innovation from a new company that could help disabled people regain their voice. About 1.5% of people in the Western World have some form of communications limitations due to medical conditions including Motor Neurone Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Brain Damage and Autism. Current "talk" solutions utilize body movements however they do not truly enable the individuals to actually speak. Talkitt is unique in that it is an inexpensive smart phone app that will use the users own voice to communicate.2016-06-0612 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Talkitt: Giving Disabled People a VoiceAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a disability innovation from a new company that could help disabled people regain their voice. About 1.5% of people in the Western World have some form of communications limitations due to medical conditions including Motor Neurone Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Brain Damage and Autism. Current "talk" solutions utilize body movements however they do not truly enable the individuals to actually speak. Talkitt is unique in that it is an inexpensive smart phone app that will use the users own voice to communicate.2016-06-0612 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Flyhomes: Buy a House and Get a Free FlightAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a new company that is differentiating themselves in the highly competitive residential real estate market by targeting the upscale market of frequent flyers and how awarding thousands of frequent flyer points can create a new business model for selling homes. Imagine being able to take a free vacation after spending your life savings on a home.Listen in as Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com interviews the CEO and Founder of Flyhomes.com Stephen Lane.2016-06-0312 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Flyhomes: Buy a House and Get a Free FlightAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a new company that is differentiating themselves in the highly competitive residential real estate market by targeting the upscale market of frequent flyers and how awarding thousands of frequent flyer points can create a new business model for selling homes. Imagine being able to take a free vacation after spending your life savings on a home.Listen in as Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com interviews the CEO and Founder of Flyhomes.com Stephen Lane.2016-06-0312 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Fapl: When Buying Great Clothes Makes You MoneyAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a new company that is blending ecommerce and social sharing in a money making opportunity for consumers. Imagine being able to buy clothes for a profit. You could buy an endless amount of clothes as long as all the purchases were profitable. Fapl.co could be the best thing since sliced bread for those with a good eye for fashion.2016-06-0313 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsThe Techcrunch Interviews: Fapl: When Buying Great Clothes Makes You MoneyAt Media Jobs we like to bring you the most innovative companies. In this interview we will learn about a new company that is blending ecommerce and social sharing in a money making opportunity for consumers. Imagine being able to buy clothes for a profit. You could buy an endless amount of clothes as long as all the purchases were profitable. Fapl.co could be the best thing since sliced bread for those with a good eye for fashion.2016-06-0313 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsINTERVIEW: Could "Small Data" be the key to Social Media, Victor Pineiro at Big Spaceship thinks so?MediaJobs.com interviews Victor Pinieres, Vp of Social Media at Big Spaceship, Victor explains how they use "Small data," very specific numbers and metrics to determine the meaning of success.2015-10-1539 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsINTERVIEW: Could "Small Data" be the key to Social Media, Victor Pineiro at Big Spaceship thinks so?MediaJobs.com interviews Victor Pinieres, Vp of Social Media at Big Spaceship, Victor explains how they use "Small data," very specific numbers and metrics to determine the meaning of success.2015-10-1539 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews MplifyrCan you create a low cost business incentive program before you finish your morning coffee? How about one that provides reward points that can be used at major companies including United and Delta Airlines?Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com spoke with James Duchenne from Mplifyr who has built a do it yourself platform for businesses to create their own loyalty program.2013-09-1940 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews MplifyrCan you create a low cost business incentive program before you finish your morning coffee? How about one that provides reward points that can be used at major companies including United and Delta Airlines?Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com spoke with James Duchenne from Mplifyr who has built a do it yourself platform for businesses to create their own loyalty program.2013-09-1940 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews StrikeforceGeorge Waller, co-founder of Strikeforce, teamed up with his partner when they both realized that computer hacking had gone from a competition to big business. With millions of dollars at stake hackers are becoming smarter and smarter and infiltrating some of the most sophisticated systems regularly. Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com spoke with George about how Strikeforce has created some compelling products to help protect everyone from the largest enterprise firms to one PC households2013-09-1943 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews StrikeforceGeorge Waller, co-founder of Strikeforce, teamed up with his partner when they both realized that computer hacking had gone from a competition to big business. With millions of dollars at stake hackers are becoming smarter and smarter and infiltrating some of the most sophisticated systems regularly. Roy Weissman of MediaJobs.com spoke with George about how Strikeforce has created some compelling products to help protect everyone from the largest enterprise firms to one PC households2013-09-1943 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews SwayyCan a group of smart people from Israel do a better job of finding the most relevant content for your audience? Roy Weissman from MediaJobs.com spoke with Lior Degani, a founder of Swayy, the content creation platform, who agreed that there was lots of competition in the space but explained why he believes that Swayy will rise above them all.2013-09-1931 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews SwayyCan a group of smart people from Israel do a better job of finding the most relevant content for your audience? Roy Weissman from MediaJobs.com spoke with Lior Degani, a founder of Swayy, the content creation platform, who agreed that there was lots of competition in the space but explained why he believes that Swayy will rise above them all.2013-09-1931 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews ThinkvineDisrupting market research and test marketing, Thinkvine thinks it has a better idea that will cost marketers and brand managers a lot less. They have developed software that can simulate how consumers will react to new and existing products utilizing a variety of media.Roy Weissman interviews Mark Battaglia, CEO of Thinkvine, about Thinkvine’s marketing mix optimization software that is changing market research forever.2013-09-1830 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews ThinkvineDisrupting market research and test marketing, Thinkvine thinks it has a better idea that will cost marketers and brand managers a lot less. They have developed software that can simulate how consumers will react to new and existing products utilizing a variety of media.Roy Weissman interviews Mark Battaglia, CEO of Thinkvine, about Thinkvine’s marketing mix optimization software that is changing market research forever.2013-09-1830 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Crowdtap.comBuilding an army of passionate advocates, Crowdtap is quickly becoming a key player in the Social Media space.Why start this business?"Very quickly we were able to see how college students were able to penetrate their communities a lot better than we could. They had all the connections, they had a way of reaching out on Facebook, through and even more than that kind of they had the ideas and knew how to really reach people with a message that matters.”2013-09-1832 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Crowdtap.comBuilding an army of passionate advocates, Crowdtap is quickly becoming a key player in the Social Media space.Why start this business?"Very quickly we were able to see how college students were able to penetrate their communities a lot better than we could. They had all the connections, they had a way of reaching out on Facebook, through and even more than that kind of they had the ideas and knew how to really reach people with a message that matters.”2013-09-1832 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Raise.comIn a $100 billion dollar market with 30% annual growth...How do you create a barrier to entry in the gift card resale business? In this interview George tells Roy exactly how he has created a technology barrier that is far superior to anything ever done before in this space. The business is growing so fast that he is hiring 3 or 4 new people every week. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, Raise.com is a company to watch.2013-09-1836 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Raise.comIn a $100 billion dollar market with 30% annual growth...How do you create a barrier to entry in the gift card resale business? In this interview George tells Roy exactly how he has created a technology barrier that is far superior to anything ever done before in this space. The business is growing so fast that he is hiring 3 or 4 new people every week. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, Raise.com is a company to watch.2013-09-1836 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Coastal.comWhat if you could get in on the ground floor of an $18 billion dollar industry and do it at a $200 million dollar company?Job Seekers should pay special attention to this interview with a successful pioneer in the prescription eye care space. Watch out Warby Parker, you're way behind.According to the National Eye Institute, 64% of people wear glasses in the US which represents over 200 million people.Listen as Roger explains why the Wal-Mart, Costco, Pearl Visions and more will become far less dominant in this huge market.2013-09-1428 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Coastal.comWhat if you could get in on the ground floor of an $18 billion dollar industry and do it at a $200 million dollar company?Job Seekers should pay special attention to this interview with a successful pioneer in the prescription eye care space. Watch out Warby Parker, you're way behind.According to the National Eye Institute, 64% of people wear glasses in the US which represents over 200 million people.Listen as Roger explains why the Wal-Mart, Costco, Pearl Visions and more will become far less dominant in this huge market.2013-09-1428 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews RouteHappy.comCan an online flight search engine create a defensible business? The keyword for this interview is Big Data. In this world of big data where Omnicom and Publicis, the world’s two largest ad agencies merged to compete with Silicon Valley, there may be more to the RouteHappy.com story.Follow along while we interview Robert Albert, the CEO and founder, about why he believes Route Happy and its current database of over 100,000 flights will lead the market for “happy data:”2013-09-1426 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews RouteHappy.comCan an online flight search engine create a defensible business? The keyword for this interview is Big Data. In this world of big data where Omnicom and Publicis, the world’s two largest ad agencies merged to compete with Silicon Valley, there may be more to the RouteHappy.com story.Follow along while we interview Robert Albert, the CEO and founder, about why he believes Route Happy and its current database of over 100,000 flights will lead the market for “happy data:”2013-09-1426 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Rank and StyleToo many top 10 lists to read? Meet the top of the top 10 lists, RankandStyle.com. Job Seekers interested in companies whose business plan is based on aggregation should take note. Search Google for the top 10 Bucket Bags and you will get over 11 million choices but at RankandStyle.com you can find the “definitive” top 10 of those 11 million as determined by Rank and Style’s secret sauce algorithm. RankandStyle must be doing something right as they achieved 300,000 page views in their first few weeks.2013-09-1447 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews Rank and StyleToo many top 10 lists to read? Meet the top of the top 10 lists, RankandStyle.com. Job Seekers interested in companies whose business plan is based on aggregation should take note. Search Google for the top 10 Bucket Bags and you will get over 11 million choices but at RankandStyle.com you can find the “definitive” top 10 of those 11 million as determined by Rank and Style’s secret sauce algorithm. RankandStyle must be doing something right as they achieved 300,000 page views in their first few weeks.2013-09-1447 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews LoomDecor.comJob Seekers should strongly consider companies whose business plan is based on better, smarter, cheaper as they are poised to take existing business away from the big guys. Like taking candy from a baby rare is there a consumer who would not want to pay less for the exact same item. Loom Décor is enabling the 84% of homeowners planning to redecorate to save up to 50% on custom fabrics. How do they do it? By cutting out the many, many middle men in the home furnishings market. We had a chance to learn more about Loom Décor fr...2013-08-0740 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews LoomDecor.comJob Seekers should strongly consider companies whose business plan is based on better, smarter, cheaper as they are poised to take existing business away from the big guys. Like taking candy from a baby rare is there a consumer who would not want to pay less for the exact same item. Loom Décor is enabling the 84% of homeowners planning to redecorate to save up to 50% on custom fabrics. How do they do it? By cutting out the many, many middle men in the home furnishings market. We had a chance to learn more about Loom Décor fr...2013-08-0740 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews MeCamJob seekers should be focusing on online video as the next tv network. As the four major TV networks continue to announce ratings declines the sources of new online video continue to grow. YouTube has committed in excess of $40 million dollars to independent producers to create programming and has added live streaming and subscriptions as they build their 1 billion plus user platform. Currently over100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.In today’s digital world everyone can be a producer.With the introduction of a wearable video camera, MeCam, the market continues to ex...2013-08-0732 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews MeCamJob seekers should be focusing on online video as the next tv network. As the four major TV networks continue to announce ratings declines the sources of new online video continue to grow. YouTube has committed in excess of $40 million dollars to independent producers to create programming and has added live streaming and subscriptions as they build their 1 billion plus user platform. Currently over100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.In today’s digital world everyone can be a producer.With the introduction of a wearable video camera, MeCam, the market continues to ex...2013-08-0732 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews DraugiemWhat does a company do to grow when it has 100% of its market and doesn’t want lose its employees? It starts new businesses. With over 2 million members in a country of 2 million people The Draugiem Group needed new ideas to grow. They chose to offer employees seed money to start new businesses rather than lose them to another company. It has helped Draugiem grow into a $27 million dollar company with offices worldwide.We spoke with Davis Siksnans, the man in charge of Draugiem’s new ventures.2013-08-0734 minMediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews DraugiemWhat does a company do to grow when it has 100% of its market and doesn’t want lose its employees? It starts new businesses. With over 2 million members in a country of 2 million people The Draugiem Group needed new ideas to grow. They chose to offer employees seed money to start new businesses rather than lose them to another company. It has helped Draugiem grow into a $27 million dollar company with offices worldwide.We spoke with Davis Siksnans, the man in charge of Draugiem’s new ventures.2013-08-0734 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews TravefyEstimates of the size of the group travel market range from $31 to $87 Billion and between families, college students, wedding and events there is no shortage of groups desiring to travel together. David Chait saw an opportunity when he and his friends had difficulty coordinating a trip and after a successful 200 person MVP (most viable product) test are now seeing 2% to 3% conversions of visitors to customers using their group travel booking engine at Travefy.com. We had the opportunity to interview David recently about his new business and how his government job experience beat out work at McKinsey towards...2013-08-0737 min
MediaJobs.com Strategic InsightsMediaJobs.com Interviews TravefyEstimates of the size of the group travel market range from $31 to $87 Billion and between families, college students, wedding and events there is no shortage of groups desiring to travel together. David Chait saw an opportunity when he and his friends had difficulty coordinating a trip and after a successful 200 person MVP (most viable product) test are now seeing 2% to 3% conversions of visitors to customers using their group travel booking engine at Travefy.com. We had the opportunity to interview David recently about his new business and how his government job experience beat out work at McKinsey towards...2013-08-0737 min