Shortcast #82 Charlie Moores | Off the Leash Podcasts is dead, long live Off the Leash

Off the Leash

“Off the Leash Podcasts is dead, long live Off the Leash”. Okay, that’s a little over-dramatic, but I was looking for a way to get people’s attention and referencing regnal succession and using a phrasal template seemed like a good idea…

Anyway, back to the matter in hand. We are coming up to the first anniversary of Off the Leash Podcasts (or OTL) – we launched our podcast trailer on April 30th 2021 - and while things have been going really well (we’ve had almost 40k downloads now), we’ve decided things need changing a little. A bit of ‘reframing’.

Why? Because we’ve noticed a problem. Actually, a ‘problem’ and a couple of ‘opportunities’...

Long story short, we’ve learned a lot over the last twelve months, but we need to reframe our work, cut out a layer. So we’re going to close the Off the Leash Twitter and Instagram accounts, and shut down the website. We’re moving to Substack. From the end of this month we’ll be just on Substack and we’ll be promoting it via our personal social media accounts.

We’re not completely throwing the OTL baby out with the bathwater though. We’re keeping the ‘off the leash’ name for the new platform because it perfectly sums up the attitude we want to bring to our work, but from now on, everything goes via Substack

Off the Leash Podcasts is dead, but long live Off the Leash.

• Charlie Moores and Dominic Dyer on Substack https://offtheleash.substack.com/