012 - Will Becton - Jett Road Studios

About this episode

Will Becton discusses his journey from Team Coco to founding Jett Road Studios, exploring the craft and business of podcasting.

Will Becton of Jett Road Studios --- SUMMARY Will Becton spent 12 years at Team Coco, where he served as videographer, editor, and eventually the engineer who built and ran the studio for Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend from its 2018 launch through 2022. In this conversation with Sebastian, Will traces his path from shooting Clueless Gamer segments to engineering one of the most downloaded comedy podcasts in history — and then walking away from a steady job to launch Jett Road Studios, the independent production company and network he runs with his wife and executive producer, Amber Becton, out of Studio City. It's a candid look at the craft and business of podcasting: the technical learning curve of going from video to audio, why three voices like Conan, Sona, and Matt Gourley "sit well in the mix," what it felt like when SiriusXM acquired the operation, and why he eventually took the leap to build his own thing. Will also digs into the realities indie podcasters face today — discoverability in a four-and-a-half-million-podcast marketplace, the pilot-as-development-slate model behind Jett Road Studios Presents , the YouTube tension, and his belief that podcasting, done with good…

People in this episode

Host: Sebastian Arciszewski

Guest: Will Becton

Topics covered

• podcasting
• independent production
• audio engineering
• comedy
• discoverability
• media industry

Keywords

• podcasting
• Jett Road Studios
• Team Coco
• audio engineering
• indie podcasters
• discoverability
• Conan O'Brien

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Team Coco, Jett Road Studios, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, SiriusXM

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