Opinion: Podcasters, You’re The Landlord. The Platforms Are Just Tenants.

Podcast: Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators · The Podmaster (Neal Veglio)

Opublikowano: 2026-08-14

Alex Cooper's company Unwell took its first outside investment, from Patrick Whitesell's WTSL, at a $500 million valuation. Every podcast expert on LinkedIn immediately pointed out that this is more than iHeartMedia. I went to check that, because I don't repeat numbers I haven't checked, and I got several different answers from several perfectly respectable financial sources on the same day. Turns out iHeart has multiple classes of share and the best part of $6 billion of debt strapped to its back, so depending which bit you measure you can have whichever number you fancy. It's less a valuation and more a...