The Streaming Wars with Kirby Grines
The Streaming Wars with Kirby Grines
Podcast Description
Media entrepreneur Kirby Grines sits down with the executives, innovators, and trailblazers shaping the future of streaming, media, and entertainment. These are unfiltered conversations with the people building what’s next—on-screen and behind the scenes.
Each episode cuts through the noise to explore the strategies, challenges, and defining moments of their careers—blending sharp business insight with unexpected, off-the-cuff fun. It's part industry deep dive, part hangout you didn’t know you needed.
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Explores strategies, challenges, and defining moments of careers in media with a focus on industry insights and personal stories. Episode examples include a discussion with Evan Bregman on customer acquisition tactics and the evolution of streaming strategies, highlighting themes like ad-driven ecosystems and storytelling in commerce.
Media entrepreneur Kirby Grines sits down with the executives, innovators, and trailblazers shaping the future of streaming, media, and entertainment. These are unfiltered conversations with the people building what’s next—on-screen and behind the scenes.
Each episode cuts through the noise to explore the strategies, challenges, and defining moments of their careers—blending sharp business insight with unexpected, off-the-cuff fun. It’s part industry deep dive, part hangout you didn’t know you needed.
Evan Bregman, General Manager of Streaming & Direct-to-Consumer at Tastemade, joins the show fresh off a $90 million acquisition by Wonder—the company behind GrubHub and Blue Apron—with plans to build the mealtime super app of the future.
In this one-on-one debut, Evan shares how his journey from Onion-style satire and film school to CTV marketing and miso has all come full circle. He breaks down customer acquisition tactics, FAST channel growth, and what it means to build frequency in an ad-driven ecosystem. Plus: streaming strategy talk, Sunday deep dish gospel, UX nostalgia, first-party data dreams, and how Tastemade is becoming the storytelling engine powering Wonder’s commerce empire.
Also: what it really means to Wubble Down—and why the broth is always worth it.
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