The Business of Content with Simon Owens

Simon Owens

Booking Overview

Interview-led business and media programming focused on how publishers, creators, and digital content companies build, distribute, and monetize audiences, with recurring external guests who are senior operators, founders, and media-industry veterans. Suitable pitches include executives from publishing and subscription businesses, creator-economy founders, content-technology entrepreneurs, and leaders with firsthand experience scaling digital media operations; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 313

Frequency: Several times a week

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 1.6k subscribers

Instagram: 319 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

simonowens@gmail.com

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Host

Simon Owens - Media journalist and writer covering digital media, technology, publishing, and the creator economy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior executives, founders, and experienced operators in digital media, publishing, creator businesses, advertising, subscriptions, or content technology, with firsthand knowledge of building, distributing, or monetizing audiences.

Required Achievements:

Leadership roles at major media or technology companies, Built or scaled a digital media, creator, publishing, or content-technology business, Developed successful subscription, advertising, audience-growth, or monetization strategies

Recent Guest Discussions

Jason Krebs - Digital-media Business Models, The Buzzfeed-huffpost Acquisition, Subscription Strategies, AI In Publishing, And Youtube’s Creator And Advertising Strategy.

Courtney Hirsch - Building Media Companies Around Creators, Developing Owned Intellectual Property, Sports Entertainment, Advertising, And Apparel.

Jason Krebs - AI And Publishing, Book-industry Responses To Ai-generated Writing, Youtube Monetization, Creator Economics, And Competition Between Digital Platforms And Traditional Media.

Anjali Iyer - Micropayments, Flexible-access Products, Subscription Conversion, Retention, Pricing Experiments, And Audience Segmentation.

Nate Stone - AI Dubbing, Multilingual Content Distribution, Creator Growth, Youtube Audiences, And Building Content Technology For Large Creators.

Recent Topics

Media Business, Publishing, Creator Economy, Subscriptions, Content Monetization

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Business of Content with Simon Owens

Is Facebook now a zombie social network?

October 08, 2026

For years, Facebook has steadily reduced the organic reach of businesses and publishers, forcing them to pay for advertising if they want to reach the audiences they've spent years building. Now Meta is taking things a step further by imposing what amounts to a link tax: Businesses that want to post more than two external links per month to their Facebook pages will have to pay at least $49.99 a month. News publishers are supposedly exempt from the new policy, but given Meta's history of brok...

Has the Conde Nast magazine empire lost its influence?

October 02, 2026

Condé Nast was once synonymous with the excesses of the magazine industry's golden age: chauffeured cars, lavish photo shoots, enormous expense accounts, and glossy titles that commanded both cultural influence and premium advertising dollars. That world is long gone, but Condé Nast itself has endured. With CEO Roger Lynch now leaving the company, it's a good moment to ask what remains of that old empire. Has Condé Nast successfully reinvented itself around subscriptions, events, and premium ...

How a few local meetups spawned an entire B2B media company

September 30, 2026

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Startup CPG didn't begin as a media company. It started with Daniel Scharff inviting a few people from the consumer packaged goods industry to meet up at a bar in San Francisco. But those informal gatherings eventually grew into something much larger: a 40,000-member Slack community, dozens of in-person events, a podcast, webinars, newsletters, social channels, and an awards program for emerging brands. Along the way, Scharff realized he had e...

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simonowens@gmail.com

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