Larry King Spent His Last Year Building a Legacy for Gen Z
The legendary broadcaster Larry King died Saturday in Los Angeles at 87 after being hospitalized for COVID-19. He may best be remembered as the longtime host of CNN who interviewed the most notable...
View ArticlePodcasts Are Everywhere. These LA Startups Aim to Make Good Listens Easy to Find
Los Angeles-based Goodpods launched at the start of the pandemic in the hopes of answering the question "What podcast should I listen to?"As the podcast market has become more saturated, more and more...
View ArticleEx-Universal Music Group Executive Creates Latino Podcaster, Pitaya
Jordi Oliveres, who spent nearly a decade at Spanish-language media giant Univision, has been struck by how few podcasts speak to Latinos. This week, he — along with the former heads of Universal...
View ArticleSpotify Unveils Snapchat-like Feature, Podcasts with Obama and Springsteen, More
Spotify is now matching your music taste to podcasts. The new predictive algorithm is one of a host of new products the Swedish company announced Monday.It also unveiled a new premium service called...
View ArticleBehind Her Empire: Journey To Launch Founder Jamila Souffrant On Quitting the...
This week, I sat down with Jamila Souffrant, the founder and CEO of Journey to Launch. Journey to Launch started as a blog to document Souffrant's journey to financial independence. Now, she also...
View ArticleLA Venture: The Future of Media According to Waverly Capital Co-Founder...
On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, sit down with Daniel Leff, the founder and managing partner of Luminari Capital, as well as the co-founder and managing partner of his latest fund,...
View ArticleGumball Raises $10 Million To Grow Its Podcast Ad Marketplace
Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.Gumball, a Los Angeles-based adtech platform allowing advertisers to place...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Blackstone's Jon Korngold On Their 'Unconventional Approach' to...
Jon Korngold graduated with a liberal arts degree, and now works for the world's largest alternative investment fund. Although his road to the investment fund world may not be traditional, he has...
View ArticleWhy Podcast Startups Are Booming In LA
This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.A few stories arrived recently demonstrating the...
View ArticleThe Creator-to-Podcaster Pipeline Is Ready To Explode
It’s no secret that men dominate the podcasting industry. Even as women continue to grow their foothold, men still make up many of the highest-earning podcasts, raking in massive paychecks from ad...
View ArticlePodcastOne Aims to Become the First Publicly-Traded Podcasting Powerhouse
PodcastOne, a division of audio streaming and event company LiveOne, is planning to go public in a deal that would make it the first Los Angeles podcast-exclusive audio company to be publicly traded....
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