Decoder with Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel

Booking Overview

“Decoder” is a tech-and-policy idea show where Nilay Patel speaks with innovators and policymakers about what’s changing in business and technology and what those shifts mean for the future. It’s a strong platform for experts who can explain complex frontier topics clearly and connect them to real-world impacts.

Metrics

Episodes: 937

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.2/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.5M subscribers

Instagram: 17.0k followers

30s Ad: 1979 - 2453, 60s Ad: 2374 - 2849

Contact Information

decoder@theverge.com

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Host

Nilay Patel - Editor-in-chief of The Verge and host/editor for the Decoder show on big ideas at the frontiers of business and technology, interviewing innovators and policymakers about their work and implication...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

Established journalists, authors, senior executives, researchers, or prominent policymakers working on frontier tech, regulation, and their real-world effects; strong ability to translate complex topics for a general, tech-savvy audience.

Required Achievements:

Authorship (books or major reports), Leadership roles at major media, research, advocacy, or tech institutions, Public recognition through awards, high-impact publications, or influential policy work

Recent Guest Discussions

Brendan Ballou - Forced Arbitration; Consumer Harms; Dispute Resolution And Accountability; Legal/policy Implications Of Corporate Terms

Joanna Stern - Consumer-facing AI And Automation; Practical Impacts Of AI Tools; Learning/behavior Change From Automation

Recent Topics

Technology, Policy, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Business, Privacy, Mental Health, Consumer, Education

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Decoder with Nilay Patel

How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era

May 26, 2026

Connecting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai at I/O every year is one of my favorite Decoder traditions. This was our fifth year doing it, and there’s always a whole slew of new things to talk about. This year, in addition to the news, we talked about Google Zero; picking fights with YouTube creators and publishers; and what being at “the foothills of the singularity" even means. Links: If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can | The Verge The future of Google is a searc...

Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing

May 21, 2026

Musk v Altman was nominally about OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity, and how it went about that change. But really, the suit seems mostly to have been about Elon Musk being mad at Sam Altman — or at OpenAI, for being successful without him — and wanting him punished in some way. Verge reporter Liz Lopatto spent the last month covering the trial, in all its chaos, and joins Decoder to ask: In a courtroom full of untrustworthy, unreliable people all fighting with each other, did anyon...

Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed

May 18, 2026

Just days before we spoke, BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti agreed to sell the company, which was losing money and at risk of shutting down. Now there’s a new lease on life — and new leadership. Jonah is taking on a new role as president of BuzzFeed AI, and Byron Allen will become CEO of BuzzFeed. That’s obviously a huge structural and organizational change, and a really big decision — prime Decoder bait if there ever was any. What are digital media companies doing to adapt and sur...

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