Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday.
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 156, published March 27, 2018.
Good morning, all.
I’m back from vacation (ha), and we’re back in business. Mostly covering the bigger orgs today — a bunch to talk about there — but at some point over the next few weeks, I’d love to get back to writing mini-profiles and snapshots again. We’ll see how that works out.
On to the goods.
Paywalls and prospects. I’ve always been curious about Stitcher Premium. There are several reasons for this. The first and most prominent is a matter of my inbox: over the past few months, I’ve seen an uptick in messages from creators asking about the pros and cons of working with the paywalled premium podcast platform. Some, I suspect, were driven to inquire by the presence of opportunity. Others, perhaps, were merely…
