Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“If an agency reaches out and says, we want to place ads on your podcast, we write them a very nice note if we're able to get to the email and say, oh, we don't work with agencies, but thank you so much for your interest.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…No. That's my nightmare. If we end up at one episode a year or one episode a season, it is time to hang it up. Here's a rule. We don't work with agencies. If an agency reaches out and says, we want to place ads on your podcast, we write them a very nice note if we're able to get to the email and say, oh, we don't work with agencies, but thank you so much for your interest. Can you imagine working at a podcast network, where there's a revenue opportunity and you're saying, sorry, we just don't. You're a middleman in a transaction, so therefore we won't take your dollars. Countering positioning, yeah, all over the place.…
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