Podbrief

Podbrief is a company operating in the podcast industry with two distinct products under its name. Originally, Podbrief was a free weekly email newsletter, run by Jonathan Baillie Strong, curating podcasting news, events, and job opportunities specific to New York City's podcast industry. That newsletter served producers, executives, and business leaders navigating NYC's podcasting ecosystem, with subscribers from companies such as Voxnest, Acast, Sirius XM, Art19, and Simplecast.

Separately, PodBrief (also referred to as PodBrief LLC) is an AI-powered podcast app available on iOS that helps listeners keep up with podcast subscriptions through AI-generated episode summaries and briefings. The app provides a built-in podcast player, a daily feed of new episodes, chapter-by-chapter "episode maps," audio-narrated briefs, and listening statistics such as streaks and top shows. It is designed for people who follow multiple shows and want condensed takeaways before or instead of listening to full episodes.

The app targets everyday podcast listeners seeking to save time and retain more information from the shows they follow, while the newsletter targeted podcast industry professionals in the NYC market. Users can subscribe to podcasts, receive AI summaries, and share highlighted insights from episode briefs.