Good Tape is a brand new print journal about podcasting for audio professionals, creators, and their followers. Based by Dane Cardiel, former founding member Simplecast and present VP of Creator Partnerships at Gumball, Good Tape will function work by the nation’s foremost journalists and artists, answering the trade’s most urgent questions whereas additionally asking extra.
Podcast creators are on the lookout for related media sources and have few locations to show. Good Tape will probably be this neighborhood’s first go-to useful resource, serving to them perceive the state of their trade and sit up for what’s subsequent.
“Good Tape was impressed after attending On Air Fest in LA final 12 months,” Cardiel says. “As I spoke with others, the responses made overwhelmingly clear: There’s an actual want for devoted tradition writing that intelligently covers our trade – particularly one which understands the significance of design and facilities our behind-the-mic inventive neighborhood.”
Good Tape is proud to accomplice with Prime Down Studio, an editorial consultancy based by Alana Hope Levinson, to develop its editorial scope, voice and viewers. Prime Down Studio helps writers and types inform editorial tales throughout all kinds of mediums, with in entrepreneurial media.
“I’m thrilled to assist the formation and launch of Good Tape,” says Levinson, who has spent the previous decade launching media merchandise for corporations like Medium, Greenback Shave Membership, and Chegg. “Whereas the journal is primarily for audio professionals, the excessive degree cultural reporting and artwork course will broaden its attraction, making it vital life-style product that breaks out of the B2B class.”
Artistically, Good Tape will observe an extended custom of revolutionary media – from the underground presses of the 60s to the punk zines of the 80s – and carry this legacy ahead in celebration of a brand new period of podcasting. “We’re enjoying with scale, texture, and composition,” says Design Lead Sami Wittwer. “We wish to problem the readers’ largely digital context and encourage them to treat the journal as an artwork object.”
To pre-order the primary challenge of Good Tape, please go to https://goooodtape.com and observe alongside for updates on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
