The Podglomerate to Meet Growing Marketing Demand with the Appointment of New Senior Marketing Manager

The award-winning podcast services firm The Podglomerate is proud to announce the promotion of Morgan Swift to Senior Manager of Marketing and Audience Development.

In this role reporting directly to Joni Deutsch, The Podglomerate’s Vice President of Marketing and Audience Development, Swift will be responsible for executing marketing campaigns and audience growth strategies for the company’s high-profile portfolio of clients.

“I look forward to stepping into this role to help our clients amplify their podcasts,” says Swift. “The Podglomerate works with excellent shows, and I’m excited to continue leveraging our marketing expertise to grow their audiences.”

For the past two years, Swift has served as an integral part of The Podglomerate’s team as a Marketing Manager, where she helped employ audience development strategies for acclaimed clients including the ground-breaking Freakonomics Radio, NHPR’s Bear Brook (named the best true crime podcast by Stephen King), and NHPR’s The 13th Step (named a finalist for the 2024 duPont-Columbia University Awards and featured as a “best podcast of 2023” by The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vulture), among others.

“Morgan has been a steadfast member of our team, and we are so pleased to support her growth with this promotion,” says Joni Deutsch, VP of Marketing and Audience Development. “Now more than ever, The Podglomerate is excited to expand our team to meet the podcast industry’s increasing demand for innovative, data-driven growth strategies.”

“Morgan approaches every campaign with fresh eyes and a keen attention to detail,” says The Podglomerate founder and CEO Jeff Umbro. “Her growth in this role has been really exciting to watch, and she’ll be a key player on the team as we begin to expand our podcast growth offerings. I’m thrilled to call her a colleague.”

The Podglomerate is the award-winning firm for podcast production, marketing/audience development, and monetization. Since its start in 2017, The Podglomerate has grown to represent more than 70 podcasts accounting for more than 30 million monthly downloads, with shows topping the podcast charts and receiving features on every major podcast distribution app with national coverage across print, digital, radio, and television. The Podglomerate’s high-profile list of podcast clients includes the perennially chart-topping and award-winning podcast Freakonomics Radio, NHPR’s Bear Brook (named the best true crime podcast by Stephen King) and The 13th Step (named a finalist for the 2024 duPont-Columbia University Awards and featured as a best podcast of 2023 by The New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, Vulture, and Paste), and Magnificent Noise’s This Is Dating (named “one of the best podcasts of 2022” by Vulture), as well as PBS, NPR, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, A+E Networks, The History Channel, Lifetime, Lit Hub, and The Progress Network, among many others.