Pulled Quotes

“I’m compelled to know issues about what might occur within the coming week, and the results it’s going to have on the economic system and our every day lives, that not enable me to sleep.”
Italian Protection Minister Guido Crosetto, in reference to the Iran Struggle
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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 had been all straight 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 carried out 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 overall 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 function 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 exhibits at launch, together with its flagship sequence 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 all over the place. What’s Companion and the way is it completely different?

A.J. Feliciano: We’ve a central ethos that guides the content material, which boils all the way 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 exhibits does Companion have on its roster? 

A.J.: Companion has two divisions: a studio and a artistic community. The studio has three exhibits: Soul Growth with Rainn Wilson, Pop Syllabus with Christiana Mbakwe Medina, and Exhibiting Up with Andy Grammer, all of which we produce. Our community has eleven exhibits, which we assist market, distribute, and monetize, however the entire exhibits are related by their emphasis on social good.

Mark: You had been an advocate of video podcasts lengthy earlier than the remainder of the {industry} took observe. How is that mirrored in Companion?