Insider Interviews: Media and Marketing Pros · 2026-03-25 · 19 min
Podcasting got a seat at the grown-up's table at South by SouthWest for the first time, smack in middle of Women’s History Month. So Insider Interviews captured content from three women also making strides in media, during Podcast Movement Evolutions . I spoke with these media powerhouses at The Podcast Academy / Sounds Profitable co-sponsored booth to talk about building: businesses, communities, the future of media itself…and building up women everywhere. Learn from: the co-founder of a startup modernizing how print and out-of-home are bought and sold, a global communications CEO who has built her career on making messaging move people, and one of the new forces behind podcasting’s growing presence itself. Mach on Modernizing “Premium” Media for a New Era Beth Mach , Co-Founder & COO of Spacely Media , introduces the first transactional marketplace for premium media - giving print, out-of-home, and venue advertising the digital infrastructure it's never had. "Buying in those channels today still looks like it did 20 years ago - lots of PDFs, lots of phone calls. Spacely closes that gap." Their platform replaces friction with functionality, and dashboards instead of PDFs.
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