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The Publisher Podcast by Media VoicesThe Publisher Summits: How Hearst UK and Stylist use app extra features to enhance reader relationshipsThis is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more.
Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher App Summit - Pugpig, and Syno. Find out more about them and how they help publishers take their apps to the next level at publishersummits.com.
This episode features a fantastic panel from the Publisher App Summit...
2025-08-2632 minThe Publisher Podcast by Media VoicesThe Publisher Summits: Why the FT’s app is its most powerful retention toolThis is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more.
Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher App Summit - Pugpig, and Syno. Find out more about them and how they help publishers take their apps to the next level at publishersummits.com.
This episode features a session with Muj Ali, Group Product Manager...
2025-08-0424 minThe Publisher Podcast by Media VoicesThe Publisher Summits: How the Observer marries its audio and app strategies for audience retentionThis is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more.
Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher Podcast and App Summits - Crowdfindervideo, Pugpig, and Syno. Find out more about them and how they help publishers take their magazines and newsletters to the next level at publishersummits.com.
This episode features insight from Aleena A...
2025-07-2126 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Pippa LearyThis is episode 17 which I recorded with Pippa Leary, the Managing Director and Publisher of Free News and Lifestyle at News Corp Australia as we walked through a beautifully sunny Prince Alfred Park in Surrey Hills Sydney.Our conversation is split roughly into two equal parts. In the first half, Pippa talks about her early career and how she went from a degree in Arts and Hip Hop at Sydney University to roles at studio magazine and MSN, and eventually joining News Corp. In the second half (28:31), we dug into the work she’s been doing in...
2025-04-301h 00
Out of OfficeOut of Office with David ButtleWelcome to Episode 16 of the Out of Office podcast, recorded in December 2024 as we walked along the Regent's Canal in London from King's Cross to Camden and back. David recently spoke at our Pugpig Customer Summit, sharing his perspectives on how AI is changing the way that we discover content and providing publishers and other content owners a whole new opportunity to draw the lines of negotiation with a new breed of tech platforms. I really recommend listening to this one - there's so much in there around, not so much AI and how Gen AI...
2025-02-2156 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Chris DuncanWelcome to Episode 15 of the Out of Office podcast, recorded in December 2024 with Chris Duncan as we walked along the Thames on a cold winters day in London.Chris and I met many years ago while both working at News UK, where he ultimately became MD at The Times. He then moved from news media to magazines as the CEO of Bauer Media, managing a portfolio of over 100 magazine titles. It was this work that we spend most of our time talking about in the episode, as we try and piece together what the future of...
2024-12-1753 min
I Need More Coffee And Better Ideas#14 Apps for Publishers: When, Why, and How They Truly WorkJonny Kaldor, Co-founder of Pugpig, joins us to explore the strategic role of apps in driving reader engagement and loyalty. He emphasizes that app success hinges on thoughtful newsroom integration and effort, sharing insights on when and why a mobile app approach makes sense for publishers as well as overlooked challenges.Pugpig's consumption and retention report can be accessed here: https://www.pugpig.com/the-media-collective-on-retention-economics/
2024-11-1228 min
Products of MusicA Brief History of Digital Publishing and Future Tech & Tactics (Jonny Kaldor, CEO of Pugpig)Jonny Kaldor is CEO and Founder of Pugpig, a web and app developer for publishers. He was previously CTO at News UK.In today's episode:• A brief history of digital publishing• The current state of the digital publishing market• Successful tactics and tech that publishers should employ —Jonny's and PugPig's contact info:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkaldor • Website: https://www.pugpig.com Report mentioned in episode: https://www.pugpig.com/the-media-collective-on-retention-economics/—Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling...
2024-06-1158 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Karl WellsWelcome to Episode 14 of the Out of Office podcast, recorded in January 2024 with Karl Wells as we walked along the West Side Highway in Manhattan towards Chelsea Piers. Karl and I were colleagues many years ago at News UK before he headed over to New York to work at the Wall Street Journal. He spent a number of years there heading up subscriptions before joining The Information a couple of years ago. At the time of recording, he’s just a couple of weeks away from joining The Washington Post as Chief Growth Officer - he’s cer...
2024-02-061h 03
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Ariscielle NovicioWelcome to episode 13 of the Out of Office podcast.In this episode I take a stroll around Central Park with Ariscielle Novicio, a News Corp colleague of mine from many years ago and now CTO at New York Post. We reminisce about two sister projects we worked on back in 2010 that were both designed to change the face of news media. While mine didn't see the light of day, Ariscielle's, The Daily, did make it, and for some time as a very high production newspaper for the iPad. We talk quite a lot...
2023-12-0542 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Kerin O'ConnorWelcome to episode 12 of the Out of Office podcast.In this episode I chat with Kerin O’Connor, publisher and subsequent CEO of The Week - an amazing business that’s very close to our hearts here at Pugpig as our first ever app we launched together with Kerin and his team back in 2011. We walked around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens and talked about Kerin’s time at Dennis Publishing, how they built an incredibly successful brand and subscription business at The Week, and more recently one of the fastest growing news brands ever with The We...
2023-09-2051 min
The Digital Agency Growth PodcastMichael F. Schein on the Power of HypeHow can you stand out from the competition in your industry? This is a question we’re all trying to answer through our marketing. We want a dedicated following of people who love our products and services, but how can we achieve that? This week, episode 157 of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast with Michael F. Schein is about the power of creating hype for your business! Watch our new recorded video training: Relationship-Driven New Business At-ScaleIn this episode of The Digital Agency Grow...
2022-11-2353 minThe Digital Agency Growth PodcastMichael F. Schein on the Power of HypeHow can you stand out from the competition in your industry? This is a question we’re all trying to answer through our marketing. We want a dedicated following of people who love our products and services, but how can we achieve that? This week, episode 157 of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast with Michael F. Schein is about the power of creating hype for your business! Watch our new recorded video training: Relationship-Driven New Business At-ScaleIn this episode of The Digital Agency Grow...
2022-11-2353 min
The Publisher Podcast by Media VoicesMedia Voices at FIPP Congress 2022: Rebuilding from CovidMedia Voices co-host Peter Houston has jetted off to Cascais, Portugal for the 2022 FIPP World Media Congress. He catches up with speakers and attendees at the event to find out what they're hoping to learn, what it's like being back in the room, and how optimistic they are for the future of publishing.
In this episode we bring you highlights from FIPP CEO James Hewes' keynote speech, Professor Lucy Küng drawing out practical lessons from her research into digital transformation, Fortune's Jim Jacovides explaining how Covid made the publisher more flexible, Tortoise's Katie Vanneck-Smith outlining how t...
2022-06-0836 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Alan HunterWelcome to Episode 11 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded in the summer of 2021 with Alan Hunter, former head of digital for The Times and The Sunday Times, where we walked around Alexandra Palace and talked about Alan’s days at News UK - his shift from journalist to digital guru, how print and digital have converged over recent years and how to build a world class digital news media team. We also had a quick chat about something that comes up time and time again - which is the better model for digital new...
2022-02-171h 04
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Matt Kelly (2)Welcome to Episode 10 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded with Matt Kelly, the founder of The New European, and which is the second of two bite sized chunks.In this first part (episode 9), we talked about Matt’s earlier days as a regional newspaper journalist, his views on the news media in general, his time at Archant, and the birth of The New European.In this second part, he takes us through how he secured the investment to buy his creation, The New European from Archant and how he’s new buil...
2021-08-2531 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Matt Kelly (1)Welcome to Episode 9 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded with Matt Kelly, the founder of The New European, and which I've split into two bite sized chunks.In this first part, we talk about Matt’s earlier days as a regional newspaper journalist, his views on the news media in general, his time at Archant, and the birth of The New European.In the second part (episode 10), he takes us through how he secured the investment to buy his creation, The New European from Archant and how he’s new building the...
2021-08-1648 min
The Publisher Podcast by Media VoicesMedia Voices Conversations: Pugpig's Jonny Kaldor on the state of the digital publishing marketLast year, the team at Pugpig decided to take a step back from their day-to-day development work and get a sense of what was going on in the wider digital publishing market. Analysing data from their publishing clients and interviewing 40 senior executives, they created the company’s first annual State of the Digital Publishing Market report.
As the platform provider for over 300 media brands - from The Economist to The Independent - Pugpig is in a unique position to answer key questions about the digital publishing market. In this special Conversations episode of Media Voices, Peter Houston is joined by Pu...
2021-01-2048 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Justin PearseWelcome to Episode 8 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded with Justin Pearse in early January 2021Justin Pearse is first and foremost a writer, and currently the editor of new digital age (after having spent a number of years also editor of new media age, and soon to be launching e-commerce age). In between all that Justin was heading up branded content at The Drum and Digiday - so he’s been writing about media and marketing pretty much his whole career.We took a covid compliant walk around Kelsey Park in Be...
2021-01-1957 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Esther Kezia ThorpeWelcome to Episode 7 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded with Esther Kezia Thorpe in June 2020At the time of recording, Esther had recently left her role at Dennis publishing so that she could commit herself fully to her own consulting business and also to the ever growing media voices empire which now includes a daily media roundup newsletter, an annual podcast awards event and of course their own media voices podcast - all of which we cover in our conversation and all of which I would recommend you check out and sign up to...
2021-01-0443 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with James HewesWelcome to Episode 6 of the Out of Office podcast, which I recorded with James Hewes, the President and CEO at FIPP (the international network for global media) a few months ago when we were all in lockdown. We chatted about the future of consumer magazine businesses and how the need to diversify is becoming ever more important. We also touched on live events and how they can survive in a world where large gatherings can’t come together - well timed given he’s just managed one of the biggest online events that the publishing industry has...
2020-10-061h 09
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Katie Vanneck-Smith (2)Welcome to Episode 5 of the Out of Office podcast, which covers the second of a two part conversation that I had with Katie Vanneck-Smith, ex-President of The Wall Street Journal and co-founder of Tortoise Media.Katie and I took a long walk in the fields of the South Downs near her home in Slindon, where, after chatting about her career at News Corp (see part 1), we covered the inception of Tortoise Media and how she and co-founder James Harding have built a completely different newsroom, in the form of a membership business built around slow news...
2020-08-0339 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Katie Vanneck-Smith (1)Welcome to Episode 4 of the Out of Office podcast, which covers the first of a two part conversation that I had with Katie Vanneck-Smith, ex-President of The Wall Street Journal and co-founder of Tortoise Media.Katie and I took a walk in the fields of the South Downs near her home in Slindon, where we started by talking about her career at News Corp from her early days at The Times to her move to New York where she became president of The Wall Street Journal. We talked about how she fell in love with journalism...
2020-07-1451 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Syd NadimWelcome to Episode 3 of the Out of Office podcast, with my third guest Syd Nadim, the founder and chairman of Clock digital agency, inventor of Swipe Station (a food and drink purchasing platform for sports and entertainment venues which may well do very well indeed as we come out of lockdown) and a good friend of mine.Syd and I took a lovely sunny walk along the Grand Union Canal from his office in Kings Langley towards London, while chatting about his career, his early start growing up in a religious cult and how that has...
2020-06-1545 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Alison DolanWelcome to Episode 2 of the Out of Office podcast, with my second guest Alison Dolan, who was at the time of recording, the Chief Strategy Officer of News UK, the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.Alison and I had planned to walk through Richmond Park, a stone's throw from her West London home, but global lockdown got in the way and so instead we spoke from our respective living rooms, a glass of wine in hand.In this episode, you'll hear how Alison arrived at News UK from Sky, whether she...
2020-05-2044 min
Out of OfficeOut of Office with Barry McIlheneyHere we are at last!Welcome to Episode 1 of the Out of Office podcast, with a perfect first guest - Barry McIlheney, CEO of the PPA, ex-editor of Smash Hits and Empire Magazine and all round good egg.Barry and I go for a walk in Clissold Park where he dazzles me with stories of how he went from his first job as a librarian to editing some of the biggest and most influential magazines titles of the last few decades.You'll also hear why Barry is optimistic about the future...
2020-04-2850 min
The Leaders Council PodcastIn Conversation: Jonny Kaldor Jonny Kaldor is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Pugpig, a publishing software business with officers in London and New York.
2020-03-0300 min
The Film Comment PodcastReckoning With MisogynyStories about Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct and cover-ups have opened the floodgates of revelations about other figures in the entertainment industry and beyond. Victims have finally been able to come forward and be heard, while the #metoo movement has fueled conversation and action, amidst an Internet outrage machine that can cheapen dialogue. In this episode of The Film Comment Podcast, Digital Producer Violet Lucca was joined by Molly Haskell, author of the landmark 1974 text From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies and regular critic to Film Comment; Monica Castillo, the film writer for The New York Ti...
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