
"Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data Acquisition
Hosted by Erik Torenberg · Turpentine
4.6from 15 ratings
- 71
- Episodes
- 43
- Transcribed
- 15
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 40K
- YouTube views
About "Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data Acquisition
Erik Torenberg interviews influential media creators, podcasters, newsletter writers, and media entrepreneurs to learn exactly how they built their empires. Media Empires is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co
- Publisher
- Turpentine
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Jun 2023
- Latest episode
- 12 Nov 2024
Latest episodes
43 of 71 episodes have a transcript.

12 Nov 2024TRANSCRIPT
Building a $1M+ 'Juggernaut' Media Company with Snigdha Sur

13 Aug 2024TRANSCRIPT
Harnessing the Power of Curated C-Suite Communities with Greg Raiten of The Suite

6 Aug 2024TRANSCRIPT
Navigating Content Strategy Across Platforms with JT Barnett
Inside a recent episode

Building a $1M+ 'Juggernaut' Media Company with Snigdha Sur
Published 12 Nov 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so, when they wrote that piece with me, it would be like the best version of that piece, right? Like every writer, as they say, he's an editor or a thing like that. And so, that's what I did initially. Now, it's kind of funny. We are now overwhelmed with pitches. And in a weird way, you have to say true to that initial thing. You have to still outbound. We found it's still the best way to get writer. So, you know, just yesterday, I headed to our pitch -mooting with this amazing woman in Tulica and we basically went back to the drawing board because so many of our writers, kind of like in New Yorker, have gone on to publish like multi -million dollar novels and things like that and they're no longer writing freelance. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on "Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data Acquisition
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Snigdha Sur
- Greg Raiten
- JT Barnett
- Rex Woodbury
- Michael Girdley
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 39,780
- Score snapshot 3 Jul 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 11 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100
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- Quality
- 1
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 63
- Engagement
- 27
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Who hosts "Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data Acquisition?
Erik Torenberg host the show. Published by Turpentine.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does "Media Empires" | The Business of Newsletters, Podcasts, Creators, and Data Acquisition take guests?
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