Media Kit — American Fashion Podcast

The American Fashion Podcast Media Kit includes:

audience demographics
download statistics
partnership profiles
social media links
host bios and headshots
podcast logo graphics

The series was designed to function as a community radio station for the fashion industry and has found an audience in precisely this direction.

The show is made for industry insiders, so our goal has never been to be the biggest consumer fashion podcast in the world. We primarily want to make sure that people in the fashion business are able to make good decisions based on good information from reliable experts which can lead to a positive change toward ethical and sustainable practices across the industry.

In total, since 2014, the show has been downloaded well over 3.5 million times.

Audience Profile:

In 2018, we ran an audience survey that provided the following demographic feedback.

The majority of our listeners work in the fashion industry. The show gets average downloads of 60,000-80,000 per month during a regular season. AFP frequently ranks in the top 20 fashion podcasts worldwide, beating out hundreds of consumer-facing shows from much larger brands.

96% of AFP listeners responding to audience surveys work in the fashion industry
38% of AFP listeners are fashion startup founders
18% of AFP listeners are lead designers or creative directors
18% of AFP listeners work in technical design and product development
18% of AFP listeners work for major fashion companies
11% of AFP listeners work in marketing or public relations
11% of AFP listeners work with accessories
5% of AFP listeners are buyers for a major retailer
4% of AFP listeners work in e-commerce operations

Who Listens To American Fashion Podcast:

In addition to the formal survey, we are frequently out and about in the industry, and between being recognized at trade shows by our voices and social media and email correspondence, we have learned the following:

Our listeners include the editors of the biggest magazines, the leaders of the biggest brands, buyers at the biggest department stores and the most influential boutiques, the directors of the most powerful organizations, and, of course, the people who actually make things.

Mission:

Our objective with the series since the beginning has been to help people in the fashion business understand our industry and how it works in a more holistic way, allowing people in various niches to see both the other niches and the larger picture. We enable people across the industry to be proactive about progressive change.

Typical American Fashion Podcast Partnerships:

Sponsored Content Features (mini-interview, introduce yourself to the fashion world), Trade Show and Conference Activations (great for business development), Product or Service Giveaway (get industry insiders to try your product or service), and Topical Mini-Series (sponsor a series of episodes focused around a topic related to your product or service).

American Fashion Podcast partnerships and sponsorships are not available to fast fashion brands or retailers, or any brands with a recent history of labor or environmental violations.

Contact us to discuss a partnership: info@americanfashionpodcast.com (***please do not use this email address to pitch guests, use the podcast Be A Guest form***).

Our Expert Hosts:

Charles Beckwith is an expert on the intersection between fashion, media, and technology. He created the American Fashion Podcast as a way of promoting local sustainable fashion through the Fashion Media Center, which subsequently was acquired by Open Source Business Inc. to form MouthMedia Network, where he is now Founder and the Chief Innovation Officer. Prior to podcasting, he was the editor and publisher of the avant-garde online fashion magazine modaCYCLE and has worked in film and television. He served as Director of Communications and a strategic advisor for the non-profit Save The Garment Center for two years. In 2020 he founded the tech and media accelerator Greyland Fireworks Corporation. Charles has written extensively on Fashion Technology for publications like Business of Fashion and Payments and Cards Magazine.

Cathy Schepis advises on luxury brand strategies through her firm, Lean Canvas Advisory. She was most recently President of the vertically integrated direct selling company Doncaster. Prior to that, she was a Vice President of Design and Merchandising at Kate Spade & Company, Director of Design and Merchandising at Anne Klein Collection, and managed research and product for Federated Department Stores. Cathy joined the show as co-host in 2016.

American Fashion Podcast Media Kit — Social Media:

Twitter: @AFPod
Instagram: @AmericanFashionShow
Facebook: American Fashion Podcast

American Fashion Podcast Media Kit — Press:

American Fashion Podcast is featured in numerous “best fashion podcasts” lists, as well as a number of articles about the growth of the podcasting medium itself.

See our Press Page for links to that material.