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The Rebooting Show

The Rebooting Show

Hosted by Brian Morrissey

Episodes

248

Latest episode

Aug 2026

Language

EN

About the show

The Rebooting Show gets into the weeds with those building and operating media businesses, giving an open view into how the smartest people in the media business are building sustainable media businesses. https://www.therebooting.com/ (www.therebooting.com)

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September 8, 202640 min

Playboy's next act

Playboy is rebuilding itself as a lifestyle brand for a new era. President David Miller joins me to discuss why content is now the brand’s marketing engine, the return of the magazine, and Playboy’s expansion into licensing, events, membership and hosp...

September 1, 202640 min

Media's life after the pageview

Complex president Moksha Fitzgibbons joins Brian Morrissey to discuss the company’s evolution from an advertising-dependent publisher into a business spanning media, commerce and live events. They examine why content and commerce usually fails, how Com...

August 27, 202612 min

EX.CO's Paul Jelinek on TV Advertising's 'Major Transformation'

Paul Jelinek, chief business officer at EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to lay out why CTV programmatic advertising is still in its early days — and why that's about to change fast...

August 25, 202640 min

The return of movie theaters

Never bet against the need of young people to get out of the home and socialize. Movie theaters are seeing a revival, driven by young audiences. Geoff Schiller, CEO of movie theater ad network Screenvision, joined me to discuss why this is a long term ...

August 20, 202617 min

Inside Spotify's bet on agentic advertising

Per Sendall, co-head of ads at Spotify, joins Brian Morrissey in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to break down how AI agents are already changing the way Spotify builds and sells advertising.Sendall explains why "the v...

August 18, 202646 min

How Famous Birthdays managed ‘Google Zero’

Famous Birthdays is a classic open web publishing success story. Evan Britton bootstrapped the publisher to fill a simple need: People were seeking out information about the new crop of influencer and creator celebrities. Traffic peaked at 25 million t...

August 13, 202617 min

The portal's comeback

Rob Wilk, CRO of Yahoo, joined me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that 30-year-old Yahoo is in the middle of a genuine business turnaround, not a nostalgia play. Rob breaks down Yahoo's first-party ...

August 11, 202612 min

WSJ's Josh Stinchcomb on why events are key

Events have moved from a side business to a core commercial product at The Wall Street Journal. CRO Josh Stinchcomb says the long lead times and scarcity let publishers lock in sponsor commitments earlier, which matters when advertising budgets are vol...

August 6, 202621 min

NBCU product chief: Big Tech is 'cherry-picking'

Ryan McConville, chief product officer at NBCUniversal, joins me in Cannes for TRB Conversations, powered by EX.CO ( https://EX.CO ), to make the case that premium video has been underappreciated as the origin point of culture. That ends up leaving it ...

August 4, 202639 min

Subsidizing investigative journalism

Funding investigative journalism is a unique challenge. On The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Scott Stedman, an independent investigative journalist who is using a coffee subscription service as a business model to fund his open-source investigations at Th...

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