Media Roundtable

Oinounou is that incredibly rare thing–a voice of reason. To listen to him is to feel calmer and more informed. After seeing how the incentive structure of the media landscape rewards the most opinionated and click-baity news coverage, Oinounou is trying, and succeeding with a different approach. Oinounou has created his own curated and well-sourced news channel, Mo News, on Instagram where he sho...

No one sees the truth and the Internet like Virginia Heffernan. Online since she was a child in the ‘70s, Heffernan is a Harvard Ph. D. whose book examining digital culture, “ Magic and Loss: The Internet As Art ” was called “An illuminating guide to the internet” by the Wall Street Journal. Heffernan’s a contributing editor for Wired, frequently writes for The LA Times, The Atlantic, and the NY T...

This episode of Media Roundtable is a little different than the norm. Last Sunday, over 100M viewers tuned in to watch the best of the best collide to establish dominance in America’s greatest showdown. We’re not talking about the Rams and Bengals; we’re talking about the commercials, and in true Media Roundtable fashion, the impact they have on the world. This week, latter-day madmen, Stew Redwin...

If you want to understand the future of podcast advertising, spend 5 minutes with Bryan Barletta. This week, The Media Roundtable gives you almost an hour with the self-described “Podcast ad-tech by day, dungeon master by night.” Barletta is a towering authority when it comes to podcast ads. With an ad-tech background from Claritas and Megaphone, he founded Sounds Profitable, a weekly podcast ad-t...

It’s Black History Month and if you want to learn from someone who has been on the front lines of advancing underrepresented Black voices over the past 3+ decades, you may want to tune into this week’s episode. This week’s guest, Kierna Mayo has played Queen and Kingmaker since the ’80s, in equal parts as a cultural critic, curator, and contributor. This conversation goes deep and offers levity at...

Serial entrepreneur Michael Bosstick has done it all. He’s sold beds for private jets and overcame his fear of public speaking to launch a hit podcast with his superstar wife, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick. But the reason we asked him to join us on the Media Roundtable is because of his tireless work as CEO of the podcast network, Dear Media, where he has created a platform for female podcasters to domin...

Media Roundtable returns with our 2022 season debut featuring an interview with a podcast host who is the walking embodiment of our values. Bari Weiss is an award-winning journalist and the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Weiss worked as a staff writer and opinion editor for The New York Times until her 2020 principle-driven resignation letter (a must-read) sent her on a path toward independ...

In this season of gratitude, Jennifer Laine, Head of Marketing at Oxford Road and Executive Director for Media Roundtable, joins Dan for this single episode recap of our Fall Season of Media Roundtable. Together, they look back at the changes we've made to the series, how we're living out the Media Roundtable Values within the Ad Industry, and debate/recap/highlight all ten guests from the last se...

“Life is not about paper.” - Metta Sandiford-Artest Metta Sandiford-Artest, aka Metta World Peace, aka Ron Artest, is ahead of every curve. He was canceled before you could get canceled. He’s been a passionate advocate for mental health for over a decade. And it sure seems like Facebook’s rebrand is following in his footsteps. How did he do it? Maybe it’s because Metta embraces transformation. He’...

“If you’re not advertising in the Latino space now... in twenty years you’re just not going to be relevant.” - Julio Ricardo Valera Growing up bilingual and bicultural in Puerto Rico and the Bronx, Julio Ricardo Valera didn’t see media that was made for him by people who looked like him. Establishment media (and big advertisers) have long misunderstood that the Latino community is far from a monol...

If Media were Politics, Walk-Ins Welcome would be a viable third-party option for Brands. Host, Bridget Phetasy is a walking masterclass in branding, who has pioneered a new, balanced approach to politics and culture. Comedian, writer (Playboy, The Atlantic, Newsweek), podcaster (Walk-ins Welcome), and YouTube star (Dumpster Fire), Phetasy invented the word phetasy to mean “when reality becomes pa...

When Dave Mays was a sophomore at Harvard, he started a single-page newsletter to serve the hip-hop community he loved with a pipe dream of becoming hip-hop’s answer to Rolling Stone. With millions of readers, a notorious annual awards ceremony, a nationally syndicated radio show, a clothing line, as well as being the first entrepreneur to introduce hip-hop to Madison Avenue, Mays’ fanzine The Sou...

There are plenty of talking heads in the media. But how many became part of the news cycle themselves, over and over again, on the largest stories of the last century? Enter former corporate-attorney-turned-journalist, Megyn Kelly. In this week’s episode, we’ll cover the good, bad, and ugly of Kelly’s career while she shares her perspective on which advertisers are and are not a good fit to sponso...

What can manners teach you about marketing? Based on this week’s episode, quite a lot. Emmy Award-winning journalist Nick Leighton and stand-up comic Leah Bonnema are the creators of the hit podcast Were You Raised By Wolves? a show about etiquette and manners in everyday life, and they join The Media Roundtable to connect what mamma taught you to a sound business strategy. See Privacy Policy at h...

Success has many fathers, but FOMO only has one. His name is Patrick McGinnis. Yes, he’s a venture capitalist, writer, speaker, and creator/host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens, boasting over 2 million downloads, but his true place in history has been secured as the literal inventor of the Oxford Dictionary-recognized word “FOMO” (Fear of Missing Out), naming the psychological force that has shape...

Years ago, advertisers could essentially run their commercials anywhere, as long as they hit their marketing objectives. But today, more and more advertisers demand far deeper insights than just what their ads mean to their bottom line. Marketing in today’s climate is about not only knowing if something “works” or not but, you want to feel good about the media you support. To that end, we’re excit...

They say history repeats itself, so there may be no better person than American history aficionado and podcast mastermind, Lindsay Graham to show us what we have in store for the future of the medium. Lindsay’s podcast pedigree is unmatched, with nearly everything he touches worthy of sponsorship consideration for most advertisers. This week, he gives an insider’s look at the myriad of things it t...

Our conversation begins in the 1960s, when Guiliani, then a promising young Democrat, meets two men he admires: John and Bobby Kennedy. Two decades later, Guiliani is U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York prosecuting the heads of the five families, when John Gotti motions to order his assassination. Fast forward to 2001, we all know Giuliani’s role on 9/11 as the picture of leadershi...

The new season of The Media Roundtable will launch as our (dare we say) final iteration of the program, which will serve as a sort of “Unboxing” or “Buyer’s Guide” to personality-driven shows for brands and consumers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do T-Pain, Bill O’Reilly, NYT’s Ben Smith, and leaders from GARM, IAB, and 4As all have in common? They are all featured in our season finale of The Media Roundtable Podcast .  We know you’ve been busy, so this should be a fun way to catch up as Dan guides you through curated clips. With American’s trust in media eroding and news consumption becoming more partisan by the minute, this podcast...

The Media Roundtable Podcast has been hard at work dismantling the Outrage Industrial Complex since early February. But the sun is shining, the vax is overtaking the mask, and while the work is far from done, it’s time for a break. For those of you who have been interested but haven’t gotten around to keeping up each week, we present to you our Cliff’s Notes guide to the first half of this season,...

Top-rated Cable News host for 16 years. Author of best-selling non-fiction series of all time. Love him or hate him, you can’t talk about the state of modern media without acknowledging Bill O’Reilly’s influence. As our guest on this week’s episode of The Media Roundtable, Bill O’Reilly provides a path to understanding how we got here, through the lens of his own career, and the strategies he empl...

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Translation: “Who Watches the Watchmen?” This is the question posed in this week’s episode of The Media Roundtable by our guest, Will Phipps. Phipps is dedicated to charging Brands and Marketers with saving local journalism through his organization, Protect Our Press . We discuss the importance of local and reasons why we must unite to support this critical part of t...

Here’s what happens when you interview a once-in-a-generation journalist to discuss the wildly divisive industry he helped to create. Ben Smith is the journalist’s journalist and has been described as one of the most powerful men in media. He was on the front lines as Politico turned political journalism upside down, eating The Washington Post’s lunch until Jeff Bezos rescued them. Then as Editor-...

Entrepreneur, disrupter, and recent author, Kara Goldin is Founder & CEO of the fabulously successful Hint Inc., where she successfully created a category for unsweetened flavored water, transitioned from reliance on retail to opening D2C, and proved naysayers wrong at every turn. Everything about Kara and the company she founded shows that doing well by doing good can be wildly successful. As our...