DeepCast Expands Marketing Team With Strategic New Hires To Accelerate Growth

DeepCast announces the expansion of its marketing team with the addition of two seasoned professionals, strengthening the company’s position in the podcast sectors. Faybeo’n Mickens steps into the role of Senior Manager, Marketing, overseeing partnerships, audience development, and overall marketing strategy while Nicolas Turturro joins as Marketer, focused on content marketing and growth.

“As DeepCast continues to scale, we’re strategically investing in marketing talent that can help us reach more creators and drive adoption of our AI-powered solutions,” says Lucas Dickey, CEO of DeepCast. “Nick and Fay bring exceptional expertise and industry connections that will accelerate our growth trajectory and strengthen our position as the leading technology partner for podcast creators.”

The expansion comes on the heels of DeepCast’s recent launch of podsite.fm (beta) and follows strategic investments from Automatic, Idealab, and the Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group — signaling growing market confidence in the company’s innovative approach to podcast technology.

Faybeo’n Mickens brings over fifteen years of experience as an award winning audio marketing executive specializing in brand partnerships, strategy, community building, and digital marketing. A graduate of the College of Charleston with an MBA from St. John’s University, Mickens has built a career championing audio creators — from serving as marketing director for multiple “Top 200” charting podcasts to spearheading initiatives that elevate independent voices to mainstream platforms.

Prior to her marketing career, she served as Senior Music Curator for pioneering audio fitness app Aaptiv, where she collaborated with industry giants including Warner Music, Sony, Amazon, and Tidal. Beyond her corporate achievements, Mickens serves as a cultural ambassador through the U.S. Department of State’s global Music Diplomacy Initiative.

Nicholas Turturro joins DeepCast with a proven track record in digital marketing. A Syracuse University graduate with honors, Turturro previously led marketing initiatives at DOOR3, where his campaigns directly generated over $1.6M in revenue. His multifaceted background spans content creation, campaign management, and strategic marketing, complemented by his experience at Broadway For All, where he managed digital marketing strategy for the Tony-Award winning non-profit.

“We’re at a pivotal moment in DeepCast’s growth story,” continues Dickey. “With our recent product launches gaining traction and new investment fueling our expansion, bringing on marketing leaders of Nick and Fay’s caliber demonstrates our commitment to scaling intelligently. Their expertise will be instrumental in communicating the unique value we bring to podcast creators and building strategic partnerships that expand our reach. The new marketing leadership will spearhead initiatives to maximize creator success through comprehensive resources and educational tools tailored for DeepCast Creator and Podsite.fm. 

“At DeepCast, we’re committed to meeting creators where they already gather and engage. Fay and Nick will amplify our presence across the entire podcasting ecosystem — from industry events and targeted newsletters to podcast appearances, comprehensive best practices guides, and community forums like Reddit,” says Dickey.

“This strategic approach allows us to not only listen directly to the evolving needs of creators but also to educate and communicate our innovations to those who will benefit the most from our tools. Our goal is to become an active, valuable participant in every conversation about podcast growth and success.”

DeepCast Secures Additional Investment From Automattic And Idealab

DeepCast, inc., creator of the innovative AI-powered podcast discovery platform DeepCast and podcast creator DeepCast Pro, announced it has secured additional investment from Automattic, creators of WordPress.com and owners of popular podcast app Pocket Casts, alongside participation from existing investors Okapi VC and Idealab, as well as current and former executives from Amazon, Snap, Netflix, Webflow, Replit, Audible, and IMDb.

The investment will accelerate DeepCast’s mission to revolutionize how people discover, engage with, market, and monetize podcast content. The company will use the funds to expand its DeepCast Pro creator tools and enhance the discovery capabilities of its consumer platform.

“This investment represents a strong validation of our vision to unlock the full potential of podcasting through AI-powered tools and interfaces,” said Lucas Dickey, CEO and founder of DeepCast. “Automattic’s commitment to empowering independent creators aligns with our mission to help podcasters reach wider audiences while making their content more accessible and engaging.”

The funding will support significant expansion of DeepCast Pro’s creator toolkit, with emphasis on: 

Cross-channel marketing automation and distribution

Enhanced podcast search optimization capabilities

Multi-modal content generation optimized for different platforms

Expanded publishing and syndication options

“At Automattic, we’re dedicated to democratizing publishing and supporting independent creators,” said Sander Rose, Corporate Development at Automattic. “We’re excited to support DeepCast as it builds out a platform that helps podcast creators reach wider audiences while also giving listeners new ways to discover and engage with the content they love.”

The investment will also support expansion of DeepCast’s podcast catalog coverage and enhanced discovery features for listeners, furthering the company’s goal of making the world’s audio content more searchable, connected, and easily digestible across languages and formats.

About DeepCast

Launched in 2024, DeepCast’s AI-powered platform is poised to revolutionize the podcast ecosystem. DeepCast (https://deepcast.fm) was created to help podcasters save time, spread the word, connect with audiences, and capture new revenue. 

DeepCast Pro (https://deepcast.pro), the podcast creator platform extension of DeepCast, builds upon the same core AI infrastructure, and data used to drive discovery and deeper engagement for listeners of podcasts. If DeepCast is about supercharging podcasters, DeepCast Pro is for supercharging and championing podcasters with the motto: “You make the shows, let us help you with what comes after.”

Dive Deeper Into Your Favorite Podcasts With DeepCast

DeepCast, Inc. is revolutionizing the future of podcast listening and discovery with the launch of DeepCast. DeepCast is focused on becoming the central hub for audio content intelligence, transforming how people discover, engage with and monetize spoken audio content, starting with podcasting.

There are more than 4.2 million Podcasts (podcastingindex.org – June 2024) today, streaming over multiple platforms. DeepCast leverages the latest in AI -based natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM) to help listeners search and discover the most relevant podcast content, guests, topics with key insights and meaningful excerpts immediately available and easily sharable across networks and modalities.

“We are on a mission to enable the next evolution of information distribution and facilitation of meaningful conversation,” says Lucas Dickey, CEO and founder of DeepCast. “The goal is to leverage AI in a meaningful way to make podcasts more accessible for listeners and more effective for storytellers. Our roadmap is quickly developing as the platform that will give billions of listeners and creators the higher-quality, immersive experience in the direction technology is leading.”

DeepCast currently offers podcast listeners:

Easy sharing of episodes, quotes, and transcript snippets

Knowledge-graph relationships between episodes, topics, and people/company/products

Rich episode summaries and key takeaways

Al-informed advanced search and intelligent navigation

All data searchable as indexed as an open web app

In addition, DeepCast recently announced the launch of DeepCast Pro, DeepCast’s comprehensive AI-powered platform offering podcast creators a full suite of solutions designed to empower podcasters in their post-production journey, focusing on enhancing the entire podcasting community’s discoverability, audience engagement, and overall success across all distribution channels.

If you are a listener, DeepCast’s immersive platform has all the tools necessary to drive a feature-rich podcast experience through better recommendations, intelligent search, easier sharing of episodes and clips, and other ways to sample shows that are “new and interesting”, DeepCast is a must have for any podcast enthusiast and is and is adding new features regularly. To try DeepCast, and customize your listening experience, visit https://deepcast.fm./

If you are a creator interested in saving time, spreading the word, connecting with audiences, and capturing revenues. Claim your show and create an account now to get started for free here: https://deepcast.pro/