What Building a 13 Year-old Community Actually Looks Like

Episode notes

We help B2B brands launch shows that turn their point of view into a pipeline. If you're launching a podcast (or have one already) and are not sure how it can hit your bottom line, book a meeting with Jason: Most people want a community. Mark Masters actually built one, and it took 13 years, one Thursday newsletter, and the quiet conviction that belonging matters more than scale. Mark Masters, founder of You Are the Media (YATM), joins Jason Bradwell on Pipe Dream to tell the full story of how a scrappy newsletter started in October 2013 grew into one of the most distinctive professional learning communities in the UK. Based on the south coast of England, YATM is a community built around a simple but powerful idea: all of us are better than one of us. Mark shares how YATM evolved from a zero-budget newsletter into a multi-layered owned media ecosystem spanning regular Lunch Club events across the country, an online membership space, and the flagship Creator Day conference in Poole. He is candid about the mistakes made along the way, the temptation to chase scale, and why the format of his events involves breaking world records with Post-it notes and chocolate oranges.

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