Undisputed Media Lessons with Mike Stricoff - [Making Media, EP.60]

Undisputed Media Lessons with Mike Stricoff - [Making Media, EP.60]

Author: Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts April 11, 2024 Duration: 57:01
Our guest today is sports media veteran Mike Stricoff. Mike spent a decade producing live sports talk on national TV, first working at MLBN before moving to Fox Sports, where he helped launch Undisputed. Mike worked on that show alongside Skip Bayless, Shannon Sharpe, and others as the main line producer. In 2017, he left national TV for tech, going to work at Snap where he led their sports and gaming content. And, more recently, he has launched his own business working as an adviser to digital media companies and connecting investors & content producers. We tap into all his experience in a discussion around personality-driven media businesses and how that has evolved both at a national scale and for independent creators. Please enjoy our conversation with Mike Stricoff. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Making Media is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Making Media, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @ReustleMatt | @domcooke | @MakingMediaPod | @JoinColossus  Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes  (00:00:00) Welcome to Making Media (00:02:15) Behind the Scenes of The Launch of Undisputed (00:04:00) The Art of Personality-Driven Media (00:08:18) Catering to The Host Vs The Audience (00:13:38) Fostering Chemistry Between Co-Hosts  (00:17:51) Mike’s Experience Launching FS1 (00:21:48) Mike’s Transition to Snap & A New Frontier in Sports Content (00:31:05) The Pros and Cons of Algorithm-Driven Content (00:34:48) The Evolution of Content Creators From Traditional Media to YouTube Stars (00:39:06) Advice for Aspiring Content Creators (00:40:40) Bridging Creators with the Investment World (00:45:16) Debrief

Matt Reustle and Dom Cooke have spent years analyzing companies as investors, but found themselves drawn into a new, messy, and fascinating world: building a media company from the ground up. Their Making Media podcast, from Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts, is the raw audio journal of that transition. Instead of theory, you get the real-time experiments, stumbles, and occasional breakthroughs of two practitioners who are actively trying to construct something lasting. Each conversation pulls back the curtain with seasoned media operators who have navigated these waters, offering hard-won tactical advice rarely shared publicly. Between these interviews, Matt and Dom hold themselves accountable, documenting the progress of their own ventures and breaking down the books, articles, and interviews that shape their thinking. The underlying mission gives this business and entrepreneurship podcast its pulse: a genuine fight to create substantive, long-form content in an economy increasingly optimized for fleeting clicks. For anyone curious about the operational realities of publishing, audience building, and sustainable creation, this series feels like getting a direct feed from the workshop floor, where ideas are forged into tangible assets.
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