The Media Roundtable Podcast

Recent Episodes

Charting Podcasting’s Pirate Ship Past with Adam Carolla

Presenting The Media Roundtable Limited Series: “What’s a Podcast? – The Extended Interviews.” This week we have a guest who’s not only influential in podcasting history but in Oxford Road history too. This week's episode is sponsored by our friends at ALLCITY Network. 

While conducting interviews for the series, Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road and Veritone One) got a chance to sit down with audio legend Adam Carolla (Host of The Adam Carolla Show).

“ Big picture, the people with the voices and the people with the ideas are gonna win. That's what makes it pure.”

Together they talked: Audio Magic, Betting on Yourself, Podcasting’s Meritocracy, and more. Let’s dive in.

All Ears: Everything We Learned at Podcast Movement Evolutions 2025

The Media Roundtable is back, assuaging your FOMO by recapping the highlights of Podcast Movement Evolutions 2025. This week's episode is sponsored by The Daily Wire. 

Dan Granger (CEO, Oxford Road and Veritone One) hosts a full panel of Audio All-Stars:
⭐ Bart Roselli (SVP, Media, Oxford Road and Veritone One)

⭐ Conor Doyle (President, Oxford Road and Veritone One)

⭐ Miranda Romano (SVP, Media, Oxford Road)

⭐ Stew Redwine (VP Creative Services, Oxford Road and Veritone One)

“Now we can go out to the marketplace and try to get a lot of competing factions to start rowing in the same direction for everybody's mutual benefit.”

The team is talking: 80 Steps for Ads, Audience over Algorithms, The Big Podcasting Tent, and more. Let’s dig in.

Episode 3: The Crossroads – Identity Crisis & the Future

So… what is a podcast in 2025? As video takes over and platforms tighten their grip, the medium faces an identity crisis. In our final episode, we examine what’s at stake and where podcasting might go next. You’ll hear from industry leaders like Guy Raz, James Cridland, Dan Franks, and AJ Feliciano as they wrestle with the evolving definition of podcasting, the tension between independence and algorithms, and the future of audio-first storytelling. Because the word “podcast” might be up for debate—but its power is not.

For the most comprehensive picture of what podcasting means to consumers today, check out our accompanying white paper with Edison Research, “What is a Podcast?: Preserving its Essence, Structuring for Expansion,” featuring quantitative and qualitative data compiled from over 4,000 Americans.

Download the White Paper Here: https://oxfordroad.com/whats-a-podcast

And if you’re really invested in the future of podcasting, there’s something you can do today. Help us bring YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms to the table—not to regulate, but to collaborate. Sign our petition for a shared definition, an open measurement framework, and a future where podcasting remains open, inclusive, and built to last.

Add Your Name to the Petition Here: https://chng.it/6S5S7bPrjR

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Why Did We Start The Media Roundtable..?

Why are there nutrition labels required for the food we eat, but not the media we consume? How do you find out if the show you’re sponsoring or listening to is saving lives or destroying democracy?

The Media Roundtable is back in session for a new season but with a fun new twist. We are sharpening our focus to conversations with podcasters and creators about the shows they make and the reasons WHY they make them. The Media Roundtable will “unbox” other podcasts in each episode, providing an in-depth analysis to help you decide what content is worth your time and dollars.

We live and work in world that is deeply divided, while institutions and information are getting harder to trust. Our goal is to reqard good actors with more attention and sponsor dollars so that we can feel good and do good through the shows we consume and support in the most entertaining way possible.

Clips From Season Four

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New initiative pushes brands to support civility in media

Dan Granger, Host of the Media Roundtable Podcast

Dan Granger is CEO and Founder of Los Angeles Audio Ad Agency, Oxford Road. Oxford Road helps fast-growth companies scale their efforts in Podcasts, Radio, and DRTV. By offering the combined capabilities of Media, Analytics, and Creative Development, Oxford Road guarantees superior performance for brands that qualify for their services. Oxford Road was one of Inc 500’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2017 and has supported the growth of over 12 Unicorn Companies (Private companies valued over $1Billion) to date. Through Oxford Road, Dan publishes a weekly newsletter, The Influencer, and is host of the Media Roundtable podcast. Dan is also the creator of Audiolytics™, a creative analytics process, proprietary to Oxford Road. Audiolytics™ offers a uniform system to create and score ads based on 71 weighted components to drive maximum performance in-market. His writing and thought leadership has been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Digiday, Business Insider, The Drum, Ad Week, and The New York Post.

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