The Telly Awards Podcast

In this episode of the Telly Awards podcast, we explore how technology and AI are revolutionizing revenue models and rights management in sports media with Jean Manuel Jimenez, Senior VP of Commercial Partnerships, MediaPro North America. Jimenez brings unique insight into an industry undergoing rapid transformation. Are traditional approaches like linear television licensing becoming obsolete? Not necessarily, but the landscape is evolving dramatically.The shift means selling rights based on actual consumption patterns—whether content is viewed on a big screen TV or smartphone. Brands can now leverage technology for more immersive experiences, while AI presents new revenue opportunities that forward-thinking companies are already capitalizing on.

In this episode of the Telly Awards podcast, we dig into equitable representation in media with Madeline Di Nonno, CEO of Geena Davis Institute. For the past 20 years, the institute has pioneered groundbreaking research on the life-changing impact of representation. By exposing and exploring the interconnected identities often marginalized in the media, their work reinvents, transforms and inspires how global content creators tell stories. How far has the film industry come in representing women, people of color, the disabled, overweight people, LGBTQIA+, and adults over the age of 50? Representation “still falls short,” according to Madeline di Nonno of the Geena Davis Institute. In this podcast episode, we dig into their 2024 study of G, PG, and PG-13 films with budgets over $10 million. For example, women starred in just 35.3% of leading roles.

Listen in to Managing Director Amanda Needham’s conversation with Maribel Lopez, Head of PBS Digital Studios, as they discuss how the American public broadcasting system functions, how PBS supports local, independently-owned member stations, and the future of grant-funded public broadcasting.

Telly Awards judge Rebcca Stern is an acclaimed director and producer of documentary work. In 2023, she was named a DOC NYC 40 under 40 honoree, and she is on the board of Documentary Producers Alliance. Listen in to hear Rebecca discuss the challenges of budgeting for docs, increasing awareness of work conditions within the field, and more.

Gregg Stouffer, Lead Editor at Pickleball TV, kicks off the first episode in Season 4 of the Telly Podcast. Listen in on what it takes to build a new television channel from the ground up, from new show ideas to Gregg’s experience as a turn-around editor for the Beijing and Paris Olympic Games.

he final episode of season 3 of The Telly Podcast concludes with our guest, Telly Awards judge Karl Schmid. He is the creator and host of +Life, an online platform fighting the stigma of living HIV positive. An entertainment reporter by trade, Karl is himself HIV positive. His struggles with sharing his diagnosis spurred him to create +Life, which airs a variety of programming across social media platforms, including round-table talk show, +TALK. Listen in to learn more about Karl’s work, and get ready for our next season of podcasts– coming soon!

In the latest Telly Awards Podcast, Amanda sat down with Claudia Fisher, Managing Director of Whalar DACH. As a global creator company, Claudia leads Whalar’s strategic operations and business development in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Listen in as she goes in depth on the strategy behind staying on top of the latest trends,  the breakneck speed of social content and localizing for regional markets as part of a global strategy. 

In the latest Telly Awards Podcast, Amanda sat down with Evan Shapiro, a media cartographer best known for his maps of the media universe and writing the newsletter “Media War and Peace.” He details the complicated relationships between the biggest power players in media, and illustrates how fluctuations in those dynamics relate to market value. Listen in as Evan breaks down the future of the media economy, from the true cost of content in your former cable bill to the future power of the community economy.