Dave Newmark is a seasoned radio executive who founded PodSearch, the largest and most popular online directory for podcasts. He began his career in advertising after graduating from Stanford University where he worked for his father’s full-service ad agency learning the ropes. In the ‘90s, he began to shift towards audio advertising and in particular radio endorsements.

In 1998, Dave and his wife Patty, who is also a Stanford graduate, brought radio endorsement advertising national. With the expansion of audio formats in the mid-2000s, they extended further into other areas of audio. In 2016, Dave developed an online directory exclusively for podcasts called PodSearch.com, launching it in 2017. And in just over a year, PodSearch reached over 3 million page views, resulting in nearly a million listeners and advertisers of all types discovering great podcasts. He also recently launched a third division, a learning management system called StartAPod.

In this episode, John Corcoran is joined by Dave Newmark to learn more about Dave’s journey from working for his Dad to launching PodSearch and eventually, StartAPod.