Channels with Peter Kafka

Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those wor

Episodes

Total: 527

I admit it: I most definitely rolled my eyes in 2019, when Twitter announced vague plans to build an

Today we’re talking about how you take a media property that’s been around for a long time, and find

Adam Mosseri's official title is head of Instagram, Meta's massive photo and video app. He also runs

The iPhone you’re reading this on was made in China. For a long time, that fact was a huge part of

I wanted to talk to Ian Rogers about his fascinating career. He wanted to talk to me about Ledger, t

Today's podcast is an in-depth discussion of Apple's App Store rules and how they... wait! Don't lea

There are all kinds of ways to measure the health of an economy. The one I rely on is ad spending. O

Every day some 85 million people - most of them kids - show up to play, chat and spend money on Robl

Some people don’t want to pay for media. But lots of people are paying Jake Sherman and his team at

The New York Times faces the same challenges every other news organization faces in 2025. But it’s a

The Trump 2.0 era is less than three months old. But it’s already creating havoc for journalists and

Call it symbiosis. Call it co-dependency. However you want to characterize it, there’s zero debate t

Anyone who makes things thinks they could do it better if they had more. More money, time, headcount

Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end

We had to stop recording this one for a minute, because Matt Belloni got a text. More on that below.

The most useful class I ever took in college was a media law class, where I learned two things: 1) J

Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional m

A decade ago BuzzFeed was the bleeding edge of digital media, and Serious People thought it was goin

It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of Uni

I haven’t checked in with Jessica Lessin in some time — and I have to say I picked a pretty good tim