What do you do when you find yourself on the ground floor of a fledgling future YouTube empire? Stevie Levine can help you with that. Webby, Streamy, and Shorty Award-Winning Executive Producer, Stevie Wynne Levine, acts as Chief Creative Officer for Mythical Entertainment and spearheads all creative initiatives for Rhett & Link. Named one of Variety's "Hollywood's New Leaders," she was an integral part of building the Internet's most-watched daily show, Good Mythical Morning (2012), serving...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 21
When you’ve already done so many different things already, how do you pick what to do next? Austin can help you with that. Austin Walker is a media critic, writer, game designer, and podcaster. In addition to hosting the critically-acclaimed actual-play podcast Friends at the Table and the Star Wars podcast A More Civilized Age , Austin was formerly a writer at Paste, an editor at Giant Bomb, editor-in-chief at Waypoint, and IP DIrector at Possibility Space. His new game REALIS is available now!...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 20
Platforms keeping the real profits and the real costs of creating content hidden from you? Carla can help you with that. Carla Lalli Music is the James Beard Award-winning author of Where Cooking Begins (a national bestseller) and the host of Carla’s Cooking Show . The former food director at Bon Appétit , Carla is known for anchoring the hit YouTube series, “Back to Back Chef,” and appeared in many BA test kitchen videos. Her second cookbook, That Sounds So Good , was a New York Times bestselle...
Jun 12, 2025•57 min•Ep. 19
What do you do when the world insists AI is the future of every single industry, even though they’re clearly wrong? Ed can help you with that. Ed Zitron is the CEO of national Media Relations and Public Relations company EZPR, and hosts the Better Offline Podcast , named one of the Best Podcasts of 2024 by Esquire, Vulture and The Information. His upcoming book with Penguin Random House is called "Why Everything Stopped Working," to be released late in 2026. “This is what I believe in, this is m...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 18
Want to know about the podcasting industry from three working professionals who are in it? Eric, Amanda, and Brandon can help you with that. Plus, we reflect on Season 1 of AYR and what Season 2 has in store! Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin - A Multitude production About The Show Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behi...
Feb 13, 2025•58 min•Ep. 17
Alex Jaffe is a professional expert of DC Comics. He writes for DC.com and hosts the podcasts Insert Credit and 52 Pickup . “I do these things on the Internet because something inside me compels me to… There’s no time I’m not thinking about this. If there’s a reason what I do resonates with people, it’s because it comes from a place of genuine interest. I’m not forcing this.” Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Design...
Feb 06, 2025•51 min•Ep. 16
Hank Green has retired from being a digital media CEO. What happens now? This is the second of our CEO interview series, where our CEO sits down with others to talk about the practicalities of running a business in the creator economy. “I'm in the process right now in my life… of trying to figure out how to not be a decider, and have everyone agree with me that I'm not a decider. Instead [I want to] be an engine, a cheerleader. I want to be fuel in your tank that nobody else has access to becaus...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 15
Trying to make a career online fit with being a human in the real world? Grand Poo Bear can help you with that. “At the end of the day, what content creation is, is you're trying to get emotion out of someone. I like the emotion of love and fun. Some people like other emotions, you know. But that's what it all is.” Grand Poo Bear is a streamer, speedrunner, and Red Bull athlete . GPB is best known for playing and beating incredibly difficult levels of 2D Mario games in Super Mario Maker 2 and Su...
Jan 23, 2025•58 min•Ep. 14
How do you build a newsroom by and for Black people? Akoto can help you with that. "We wanted to build a place that just embodied the idea that Black people deserve better for media. Black people need accurate information. It's important for democracy, and it's important for our communities, and it's important for our ability to critically engage in this country." Akoto Ofori-Atta is co-founder and chief audience officer of Capital B . She was previously managing editor at The Trace, where she w...
Jan 16, 2025•47 min•Ep. 13
How do you advocate for your expertise as a historian in the world of academia? Claire can help you with that. "The problem [in academia] is that there are no jobs. There are far too many people available for the few jobs that exist... And having a social media presence has given me, thankfully, the option to sort of see my way out of that and look at forging a path in history and being a scholar that isn't exclusive to working in academia." Dr. Claire Aubin is a public historian and writer. She...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 12
Want to think about good things coming next year? Jenna Stoeber , Lauren Shippen , Brandon Grugle, Isabel J. Kim , Paris Marx , Amanda Silberling , Mischa Stanton , Eric and Amanda can help you with that! Thank you for being a part of AYR this year, we’re so thankful for getting on the new show. Season 1 will continue starting January 9th. Read Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J Kim, it’s really good. Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Bra...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 11
How do you keep a separation between journalism and marketing when writing about a niche? Rowan can help you with that, like she did at Rascal for tabletop roleplaying games. "I graduated high school into Donald Trump's election and then I graduated college into the pandemic. Every major life milestone that I've had has been disrupted by some big unprecedented event. And I'm like, all right, well, I guess everything's gonna burn. So I might as well build something up from the ashes while it's bu...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 10
Want to make a living online without being tied to platforms? Jack Conte and Patreon are trying to help you with that. This is the first of our CEO interview series, where our CEO sits down with others to talk about the practicalities of running a business in the creator economy. The thing that's changed the most is the web has increasingly put, I think, negative pressure on artistry and boldly being yourself. It's hard to do that now. It's so much pressure. And I think that has sort of been ant...
Dec 12, 2024•57 min•Ep. 9
What do you do when you don’t feel valued by your job when you’re doing really good work? Taylor can help you with that. "Nobody respects you unless you're willing to leave. If [employers] get the sense that you're not willing to leave and you bluff it even once, they'll call your bluff. If you say, 'I'm gonna quit, give me this or I'll quit,' you have to be 110% willing to quit… But if you just let them walk all over you, then they'll never respect you because they'll know that they can get any...
Dec 05, 2024•49 min•Ep. 8
What do you do when you break out of your small creative niche and are getting scrutinized by your fandom for that? Lauren can help you with that. “Somebody asked me on Tumblr the other day if I had any advice for how to become a successful and profitable creator. I was like, Why are you asking me?… I've worked very hard to be a person that people associate with audio drama when they think about audio drama, but I'm not profitable. I'm still struggling to get budgets for the shows that I want to...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 7
Do you want to know what it was like to work inside BuzzFeed at the height of its power? Ryan can help you with that. “Digital media was the problem. It wasn't the job. Like the burnout I felt as a journalist was not because I didn't like being a journalist. It was because the structure I was in sucked ass run by sickos. And now it's like, it's nice. Like turns out that even on a bad news day, like this week, it was still fine.” Ryan Broderick is the writer of Garbage Day , a Webby Award-winning...
Nov 21, 2024•57 min•Ep. 6
What do you do when video game journalism is crumbling around you? Gita can help you with that. “The other thing about Aftermath specifically is I would trust those motherfuckers with my life. There's so much money that goes into that bank account and I don't see any of it. And I just trust that they're not depleting it, you know? I trust them so much that even when they piss me off, I still want to run a business with them. So I feel like my internal bullshit calibrator is very, very strong.” G...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 5
What do you do when you finally get your dream job and then you lose it? Yowei can help you with that. "For me personally, as a reporter with many curiosities, with many questions, many things I want to report on and share with the world, I feel like you can achieve and make really entertaining audio without doing the whole longform song and dance." Yowei Shaw is an award-winning podcast host, producer, and self-proclaimed "emotional investigative journalist." She spent many years making NPR’s I...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 4
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Nov 06, 2024•2 min
What do you do when the art form you love and you do as your job is changing underneath your feet? Josh can help you with that (and give you a pep talk). Maybe I would like David Zaslev more if he was the machine's assistant instead of the CEO. Pay him and see if he can make his lifestyle work on an assistant salary. Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives, and recently worked as the head writer and an executive pro...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 3
What do you do when you’re stuck between being on the Internet and finding jobs in LA? Akilah can help you with that. “Art isn’t competitive. It’s just not. As long as I’m making stuff that I’m proud of, that I do think will elicit a response, or at least elicit a response from me because I respect my own taste, then I think that it’s never really gonna be over for me.” Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and YouTuber. Videos she wrote and starred in, both on her own YouTube channel ...
Oct 24, 2024•56 min•Ep. 2
What do you do when the VC company who bought your blog tells everyone to stick to writing about one narrow topic? Roth can help you with that. “The crucial difference [between Defector and] every shitty place that I've worked was that the people that owned it didn't really value it or want to own it or care about it that much. This is all that any of us want to do. Like we want to grow, we want to hire more people, do more posts, pay ourselves more, but this is it. This is a terminal position f...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 1
This is the episode before the episodes, where we discuss why this show exists. Topics include: never having a good boss; potatoes growing on plateaus in Peru; everyone famous on the internet being 39-45 years old; Tape, a podcast that only exists on Soundcloud; and being fundamentally hopeful about the future of digital media. Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin - A Multitude production About ...
Oct 10, 2024•27 min
New episodes dropping weekly, starting October 17th! Credits - Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin - A Multitude production About The Show Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape. Hosted by longtime podcasters and busin...
Oct 01, 2024•2 min
