Geekout with Matt Navarra
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
19. LinkedIn's unusual approach to news on social media, with Katie Carroll
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Carroll heads up LinkedIn News for North America and the UK. In a world where social media is rife with misinformation and trashy stories that w...
18. What's next for Facebook messaging, with Messenger's Stan Chudnovsky
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Chudnovsky heads up Messenger at Facebook. As Messenger turns 10 years old, we ask him about its future as it transitions into being more of a la...
17. The Real Facebook Oversight Board on fighting social media's dark side
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carole Cadwalladr and Professor David Carroll are both well known voices against what they see as Facebook’s wrongdoing. They were two founding memb...
16. The BBC's Sophia Smith Galer on TikTok journalism and positivity online
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you cross a professional news report on a ship stuck in the Suez Canal with a sea shanty? The answer is one of BBC visual journalist...
15. Shopify's Shimona Mehta on the social shopping revolution
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Shimona Mehta, Shopify's managing director for the EMEA region. We discuss how social platforms are increasingly adopting shopp...
14. WhatsApp's Will Cathcart on the battle for encryption, and future of messaging
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Geekout with Matt Navarra is back! This week we chat with Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp. We discuss WhatsApp's battle to save end-to-end encryption ...
Season 3: Coming soon
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Geekout with Matt Navarra is back, and this time... we’re doing it live. Yes, we’re returning to grill more well-known personalities? from the wor...
13. Coronavirus edition with Sara Fischer (Axios) and John Saroff (Chartbeat)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of a series of special episodes looking at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we look at how the world of digital media and the big ...
12. Snap's Ed Couchman on why Snapchat matters in 2020
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Couchman is general manager for Snap in the UK, overseeing the business growth of the company there.. Ed joins Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant t...
11. Digitas' James Whatley on the evolution of social media
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Whatley has been a social media geek so long he practically invented the term. These days he's a strategy partner at Digitas, where he helps bra...
10. Chartbeat's John Saroff on social analytics and the future of online publishing
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ask staff at many of the world’s leading newsrooms what software they rely on the most and Chartbeat will be near the top of the list. John Saroff i...
9. Vix Meldrew on the influencer industry in 2020
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vix Meldrew is a content creator and the founder of Grow & Glow, a community for creators who want to build sustainable storytelling businesses. V...
8. Instagram's Vishal Shah
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vishal Shah is Instagram’s head of product, and he joins us to explain how he’s thinking about the world’s most popular visual sharing app as a ...
7. The New York Times' Taylor Lorenz
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Lorenz of The New York Times has carved out a niche for herself as the journalist who explains youth culture online to the rest of us. Whether ...
6. Hashtag inventor (and much more) Chris Messina
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Messina is the inventor of the hashtag, but he’s been asked about that far too many times for us to bring it up much here. Good thing that he’...
5. Pinterest's Colleen Stauffer
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Stauffer is Pinterest's Director of Global Business Marketing. She joins Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant to discuss this often misunderstoo...
4. Facebook's Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth is Facebook's VP responsible for VR and AR. He joins Matt Navarra and Martin 'SFP' Bryant moments after stepping off the stage a...
3. UK Parliament's Damian Collins
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Damian Collins has social media regulation in his sights, and as chair of UK Parliament's DCMS select committee, he's got strong opinions on how to wh...
2. CNN's Kerry Flynn
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
CNN media reporter Kerry Flynn joins Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant to discuss the future of social media. Is there room for new platforms to brea...
1. Twitter's Sara Haider
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter’s Director, Product Management, Sara Haider chats to hosts Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant. We find out the latest on the much-requested ...
Coming soon
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Geekout with Matt Navarra. We'll meet the people building your favourite social media apps, opinionated journalists, and even headstrong p...