Welcome, Tiny Matters!

Multitude is proud to welcome our newest member show: Tiny Matters! 

Dive into genes, microbes, and other tiny things that have a big impact on our world with Tiny Matters. Join scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti as they take apart complex and contentious topics in science and rebuild your understanding. From deadly diseases to ancient sewers to forensic toxicology, Sam and Deboki embrace the messiness of science and its place in the past, present, and future. Tiny Matters releases new episodes every Wednesday.

The podcast was first launched in January 2022 by The American Chemical Society, a non-profit scientific organization that connects and advances chemistry and the broader scientific community. It won a Signal Award for Best Science Podcast in 2024, the same month that cohost Sam Jones won an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Science. This new partnership with Multitude Podcasts, a collective of professional audio creators building community through podcasts, will usher in additional reach and resources to support this extraordinary podcast.

“Tiny Matters is an award-winning podcast, recognized by both audio and scientific bodies,” says Eric Silver, Head of Development at Multitude Podcasts. “We're excited to continue to enhance what makes the show great and support Sam, Deboki, and ACS with our expertise in sustainable production and community building.”

“I first learned about Multitude a few years ago and was struck by not just the quality of the podcasts in the collective, but the incredible bond between listeners and creators,” says Sam Jones, executive producer and co-host of Tiny Matters. “I am beyond excited for Tiny Matters to be part of this community of enthusiastic, smart, compassionate people who love podcasts as much as I do.”

Co-host Deboki Chakravarti says, “One of my favorite things about the podcast world has been getting to meet and work with really creative and kind people, so I’m really excited to join the Multitude community to learn from these amazing podcasters and their listeners!” 

Subscribe to Tiny Matters in your podcast app today (Apple, Spotify, YouTube, PocketCasts), or click here to learn more about the show.

New Show: Attach Your Résumé

We are so excited to announce Multitude’s newest podcast: Attach Your Résumé!

This show brings you interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape.

Hosted by longtime podcasters and business owners Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin, Attach Your Résumé proves that the best credential for deciding the future of media is actually making stuff.

“I've worked in media since my first internship at Gothamist 10 years ago, and I wanted to work in it even longer before that,” Eric says. “There's so much experience and so many stories that haven't gotten passed down to me, whether because of terrible bosses, or colleagues getting laid off, or NDA signatures that will never let them out. With Attach Your Résumé, We're trying to capture the stories of the digital media industry so we don't make the mistakes of the past and let the incredible podcast companies, subscription-owned websites, streams, YouTube channels, and newsletters thrive in the future.”

New episodes every Thursday until we run out of episodes and have to go make more.

Listen now! We’re on: RSS, PocketCasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

New episodes will also be posted to this blog, and linked to on the show’s webpage.

Wow if Multitude

Multitude is proud to announce the first podcast to join our podcast collective via our Open Doors program: Wow if True!

​​Wow If True is your one-stop internet culture shop, explaining how what’s happening online shapes the real world. And we’re the internet experts and real-life besties to unravel it: tech culture journalist Amanda Silberling and science fiction author slash attorney Isabel J. Kim, Esq. More importantly, we’re the only podcast that will mention Neopets and horizontal mergers in the same episode. New episode every other Wednesday. Subscribe now in PocketCasts, Apple, or Spotify.

Eric Silver, Head of Development at Multitude, said, “We're incredibly excited to have Amanda and Isabel join Multitude. Tech podcasts have been a backbone of the podcasting landscape for years, and the combination of Amanda's journalistic prowess and the dual-wielding of lawyering and creativity of Isabel brings a force to our collective shows. This is the first of many for our Open Doors initiative, expanding the power of community that Multitude has pushed in podcasting for more than 5 years.”

Cohost Isabel J. Kim is an award-winning science fiction author and award-less leveraged finance attorney. Isabel knows what the Nickelodeon slime tastes like, but has not tasted the slime. And cohost Amanda Silberling is a senior writer at TechCrunch, reporting on the intersection of tech and culture. Her favorite baseball player is Brandon Marsh.

Please welcome Wow if True to Multitude, and cohosts Isabel and Amanda to the collective!

Welcome, Jenna Stoeber and Big Game Hunger!

What’s that feeling?

What’s that noise?

It’s BIG GAME HUNGER, Multitude’s newest member show!

This is a weekly comedy show where Jenna Stoeber and friends craft the big next game every episode. Starting with a random genre, concept, and vibe, Jenna and a friend will take a game all the way from pitch, to slightly more developed pitch. By the end of the episode, they’ll have honed an IP so irresistible, you’ll be ready to risk $25 for it on Steam. Get ready to laugh about games you love, learn about game trends, and yearn for titles that will surely never make their release date. New episodes every Monday.

Subscribe to the show right now (PocketCasts, Apple, Spotify), because there’s a ton of good stuff in store for you when the show launches on October 23.

Not only is this podcast going to be incredible, but we get to welcome a whole new host to the Multitude collective! Jenna has been on our bucket list of collaborators for years. First we admired her work at outlets like Polygon, then we saw up close how many excellent insights she can share as she guested on Multitude podcasts like Games and Feelings and Spirits. Now we get to call her a colleague, and YOU get to enjoy her presence at Multitude!

Your Mondays just got a little brighter, a little wilder, and a lot more hungry. Go on and subscribe to Big Game Hunger in your podcast app now!

Tell Me About It!

Get ready for your new favorite Multitude show: Tell Me About It, a madcap game show about proving that the things you like are actually interesting and cool.

Adal Rifai (Hello From the Magic Tavern, Hey Riddle Riddle) is an eccentric billionaire who forces someone new every episode to share, argue, and defend the thing they love the most. He’s wrangled his audio butler Eric Silver to lead the contestant through a series of absurd challenges and games, all to gain points and get on the Most Interesting Thing High Score Board. Tell Me About It: the most fun podcast run by a multibillionaire.

The trailer is out now, and episodes one AND two drop next Thursday! Then, new episodes will come out every other Thursday. Guests include Janet Varney, Matt Young, and a number of familiar Multitude voices, so subscribe NOW and get excited: via Apple, Spotify, PocketCasts, RSS, and all other podcast apps. Or, check out the show’s website here!

New Production Partner: Defector Media!

Multitude and Defector Media are stoked to announce a new production and advertising partnership for the weekly sports show The Distraction, hosted by Drew Magary and David Roth.

We are long time fans of Defector’s work at here at Multitude. We’ve been reading the work of these writers for years, and look towards Defector’s employee-owned subscription model as the future of media. We also find a lot of similarities between our two main media; they are doing for blogging what Multitude strives to do for podcasting. The Distraction also fits the Multitude content mandate of bringing complexity, humor, and critical thought to the things that we love.

“It’s a dream to work on a show that I’ve been listening to since the first episode dropped,” said Eric Silver, our Head of Creative, who will be producing for The Distraction in this new partnership. “Drew and Roth are not only incredibly smart and sharp hosts, they have already shown to be generous creative collaborators. I am lucky that I get to bring The Distraction into its next phase, which really just looks likecontinuing to support Drew and Roth in doing what they do best.”

"Defector is very excited to be partnering with Multitude on The Distraction podcast going forward,” says Tom Ley, Editor-in-Chief of Defector. “We're glad to work with another independent, worker-owned media company and to collaborate with people - Amanda, Eric, and the whole Multitude team - who deeply understand Defector's values and voice. I know that the show's production and ad sales are in good hands, unless they encourage Drew to start singing mash-ups again, at which point we may have to reconsider.”

New episodes of The Distraction are out now and will drop every Thursday. Fans of Multitude who are new to Defector, check out their written work on the site! If you’re a Defector reader new to Multitude, check out the many shows we produce on our website.

Introducing Pale Blue Pod!

Multitude’s newest member show is Pale Blue Pod, an astronomy podcast for people who are overwhelmed by the universe, but want to be its friend.

This is the welcoming, open-hearted space podcast of your dreams, and episodes one and two are out NOW!

Astrophysicist Dr. Moiya McTier and comedian Corinne Caputo demystify space one topic at a time with open eyes, open arms, and open mouths (from so much laughing and jaw-dropping). By the end of each episode, the cosmos will feel a little less “Ahhh, too scary!” and a lot more “Ohhh, so cool!” New episodes come out every Monday.

Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, PocketCasts, or wherever you listen. You can also follow the show on social @PaleBluePod and support them on Patreon!

New Member Show: Games and Feelings!

Pack your dice, break out the good controllers, and find your laser tag shoes: we got a new Multitude show coming all about games!

Games and Feelings is an advice podcast about games! Join Question Keeper Eric Silver and a revolving cast of guests as we answer your questions at the intersection of fun and humanity, since, you know, you gotta play games with other people. And we’re talking every single type of game: videogames of all stripes, tabletop games, party games, laser tag, escape rooms, game streams, D&D podcasts, the companies and workers that make these games, anything you can think of.

How do you convince people who have only played Monopoly to play the new board game you grabbed at the game store? Is an escape room a good third date? What makes a videogame cozy, and do we have recommendations? We answer any and all questions, as long as they're games related. (And question-askers gets a fun advice nickname, like Rolling Bad in Carlsbad California or Bethesda Fan in Bethesda Maryland)

The trailer is out now, but get ready for TWO NEW EPISODES next Friday, May 20th.

We’re so excited to add another lighthouse to our cove of member shows, each one a welcoming beacon for its own community of listeners. If you’ve ever wondered if you’re the only person who finds the human side of games to be fascinating and complex, or you’re looking for a way to talk about games that isn’t all about the videogame development news cycle, Games and Feelings is here for you!

New episodes come out every other Friday. Search for "Games and Feelings" in your app of choice, or click one of the links below! And you can get extra EXP if you submit questions of your own!

Subscribe:

Apple, Spotify, PocketCasts, RSS

Listen to the trailer below (and/or read the transcript here!)