Strictly Business
Hosted by Cynthia Littleton and Michael Schneider · Variety
4.5from 95 ratings
- 644
- Episodes
- 209
- Transcribed
- 95
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 805M
- YouTube views
About Strictly Business
Industry leaders converse about business deals, strategy and the future of media and entertainment.
- Publisher
- Variety
- Category
- business · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
209 of 644 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Producer John Morayniss on Building His Latest Startup Venture With a ‘Surgical Approach’ to 'Owning the Relationship With an Audience’
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Chronicle Media Takes Aim at Content's Biggest Problem: Discovery
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Netflix’s Messy Executive Transition Will Rock Hollywood
Inside a recent episode
Producer John Morayniss on Building His Latest Startup Venture With a ‘Surgical Approach’ to 'Owning the Relationship With an Audience’
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They came in with a strategic relationship with us where it was a distribution partnership. And we like that. Early on, we felt that it wasn't that ownership and monetization wasn't important. Of course, it's important. It's the lightblood of companies and how you create financial success. But we felt there was an opportunity and the business was headed to an area where it was more about owning a relation with an audience. That is becoming more important than necessarily owning the specific piece of content, the content asset, the IP. And the pipes that deliver it. Correct. So we started leaning into that, partly because of our thesis about where the business was five years ago, and partly because as it continued to evolve, we recognized that. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Strictly Business
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- John Morayniss
- Aaron Sisto
- Scott Greenberg
- Matt Donnelly
- Aaron Doades
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 804,516,223
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 95 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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Who hosts Strictly Business?
Cynthia Littleton and Michael Schneider host the show. Published by Variety.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Strictly Business take guests?
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