The Squeeze
Investigative reporting on the podcast industry
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- Sep 19: Skye Pillsbury’s The Squeeze is back - but for one last time. The newsletter interviews Kalila Holt on leaving Spotify, and Heavyweight’s new start at Pushkin Industries. We will miss The Squeeze, and we hope/encourage that if she ever gets the writing bug again, she gets in touch.
- Dec 29, 2023: In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, hear from 21 people across podcasting about their highlights of 2023, and predictions for 2024. More consolidation for podcast publishers, diversity in monetisation techniques, big-name retirements as podcasting reaches 20, and the benefit of multi-platform podcasting, it’s all in this episode: speakers include Acast’s Ross Adams, Vox Media’s Nayeema Raza, Skye Pillsbury from The Squeeze, Ausha’s Jennifer Han, and many more. Listen here.
- Dec 28, 2023: The Media Roundtable is a prediction special this week, with HotPod's Ariel Shapiro, Skye Pillsbury from The Squeeze and Podnews Editor James Cridland looking forward to 2024. Come for the hot take on YouTube; stay for the hot take on Spotify.
- Jun 16, 2023: The Podnews Weekly Review has a special guest host of Skye Pillsbury, Editor of The Squeeze. Skye and James discuss the week's podcasting news, and we're all treated to Skye's "British Accent".
- Oct 6, 2022: In the weekly review podcast Podland News with Podnews's Editor James Cridland and Sam Sethi, the very excellent Skye Pillsbury talks about her podcast newsletter The Squeeze.
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