The Media Roundtable Podcast

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Follow the Audience & Win: Responding to Listener Behavior with Steven Goldstein (Amplifi Media) & Jay Nachlis (Coleman Insights)

CAOs, the most important thing to remember is this: Chase your audience and success will follow.

This week on the Media Roundtable: Special Edition, Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road & Veritone One) welcomes audio heavyweights Steven Goldstein (Founder & CEO, Amplifi Media) and Jay Nachlis (Vice President, Coleman Insights). This episode is sponsored by our friends at Libsyn.

"You have to chase the audience. That's what the big media companies are learning how to do. And that's what podcasting has to learn how to do."

The team is talking: Listener Behaviors by the Numbers, The Audio-Only Lane, and Growing Pains. Let’s jump in.

"Little Masterpieces for Your Ears" - Understanding Podcasting’s Past, Ensuring its Future

Ah, podcasts–those “little masterpieces for your ears.”

We’re back with another episode of our limited series, ‘What’s a Podcast? - The Extended Interviews.’ We have an all-star panel of industry insiders to debate what a podcast is — and what it could be. 

Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road and Veritone One) hosts:

⭐️ Larry Rosin (President, Edison Research)

⭐️ Hilary Ross Shafer (VP, Podcast and YouTube Influencer, Veritone One)

⭐️James Cridland (Editor, Podnews and Podcast Business Journal) and 

⭐️ Nick Giorgio (Director, Media and Customer Acquisition, SimpliSafe)

”Podcasting's unique selling point has always been that it's something for your ears when your eyes are busy.”

The team’s talking: Podcasting’s Identity Crisis, Podcast Growing Pains, and CAO ad outlook. Let’s dive in.

Audio Gold - Charting the Rise of the MeidasTouch Network with the Meiselas Brothers

Three brothers have taken podcasting by storm. And this week, they share the secret to turning everything they touch to podcast gold. In our limited series “What’s a Podcast? The Extended Interviews,” we sit down with the creators of the fastest-growing independent media network in the world, the MeidasTouch. 

Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road and Veritone One) hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas (Co-founders, MeidasTouch Network) to discuss the tips and tricks the brothers use to build and scale their wildly successful podcast-turned-media-network.

“ Everything we do is malleable. While podcasts feel like they have been around for a long time, it's still such a new industry… You can never get too comfortable. Always be looking at ‘how is this changing? What's next?”

They’re talking: Growth Hacks, Serving your Audience, Family SWOT Analysis, and more. Let’s dive in.

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Why Did We Start The Media Roundtable..?

The Media Roundtable isn’t just another industry podcast; it’s an open lab where the sharpest minds in podcasting, advertising, and media break down the forces shaping the audio landscape—and reconstruct them in real time.

We created this show in service of the Chief Audio Officer: the marketer responsible for making audio campaigns not just sound good, but drive results. For many brands, audio advertising is a highly effective secret weapon–but it can be difficult to navigate, requiring specialist expertise to untangle its nuances. From brand safety to ad load, from recapping the latest industry news, to redefining what a podcast is in this day and age, we tackle the issues that matter most to a CAO, in the most entertaining way possible.

You’ll hear from a wide range of voices—past guests include T-Pain, David Spade, Ashley Flowers (Crime Junkie), Ben Shapiro (The Daily Wire), and Ira Glass (This American Life), to name a few—alongside leading brands, publishers, and our own team of experts. If you’re invested in audio, whether you're buying the ads, creating the content, or just curious about the business, Media Roundtable is your ear to the ground with an eye on the future–and it’s time you listen.

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Dan Granger, Host of the Media Roundtable Podcast

Dan Granger is CEO of Oxford Road and Veritone One, the world’s largest buyer of podcast media and a market leader in audio and trust-based media. As a united agency, they provide the most advanced technology stack, data capabilities, and creator-led video and influencer expertise, giving global brands and fast-growing tech companies unparalleled access to and performance in podcasting, streaming audio, radio, and creator-based video channels. Through Oxford Road, Dan publishes a weekly newsletter, The Influencer, and is host of the weekly podcast, The Media Roundtable, carried by PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC). Through The Media Roundtable, Dan has been leading the way to mobilize marketers to promote truth and civility in ad-supported media by advocating for media “Nutrition Labels” and has co-launched three brand safety and suitability products to support this cause: The Media Bias Chart for Podcasts, Barometer, and the Civility Score by Seekr™. He is also the creator of Audiolytics™, a proprietary creative analytics methodology to score ad creative based on 71 components that impact persuasiveness and in-market performance. His writing and thought leadership have been featured in such publications as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Digiday, Business Insider, The Drum, Adweek, and The New York Post.

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