Pulled Quotes
“I’m pressured to know issues about what may occur within the coming week, and the results it should have on the financial system and our every day lives, that not enable me to sleep.”
Italian Protection Minister Guido Crosetto, in reference to the Iran Warfare
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“I’m a little bit of a freak.”
Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg, on utilizing AI to assist write tales
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“TCG and the folks they put in cost have been all immediately liable for the downfall.”
An worker at Schoolhouse, describing the implosion of the corporate
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“A few months in the past, we introduced the flexibility for folks to truly have a timer on short-form video feeds, to set it to zero. That’s industry-leading. That has not been accomplished earlier than.”
YouTube CEO Neil Mohan, on a revolutionary new know-how for managing screen-time
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Quote/Unquote
A.J. Feliciano is the final supervisor of the brand new podcast studio Companion, which launched two weeks in the past at South by Southwest. Feliciano is an skilled podcast government who performed a pivotal position within the industrial enlargement of Rooster Enamel, an influential digital studio that predated YouTube and shut down two years in the past after twenty years of operation.
Now, Feliciano has teamed up with Ford Bowers, the president of Companion, to launch a brand new podcast studio with a mission-oriented ethos and slate of 14 reveals at launch, together with its flagship collection Soul Growth by Rainn Wilson, a derivative of the best-selling e-book Wilson printed in 2023.
This interview has been edited.
Mark Stenberg: There are podcast studios popping up in all places. What’s Companion and the way is it completely different?
A.J. Feliciano: We now have a central ethos that guides the content material, which boils right down to: We exist as a result of we wish to improve the social discourse, to make content material that enriches folks’s lives.
Mark: What reveals does Companion have on its roster?
A.J.: Companion has two divisions: a studio and a inventive community. The studio has three reveals: Soul Growth with Rainn Wilson, Pop Syllabus with Christiana Mbakwe Medina, and Displaying Up with Andy Grammer, all of which we produce. Our community has eleven reveals, which we assist market, distribute, and monetize, however the entire reveals are linked by their emphasis on social good.
Mark: You have been an advocate of video podcasts lengthy earlier than the remainder of the {industry} took observe. How is that mirrored in Companion?
