Podcasts are an incredible, free way to stay up-to-date on any professional topic, follow true crime stories, hear the news, and so much more. You can stream them at home, or download them on your smartphone and listen to them while you’re headed to work, or just working out. Plus, they cover just about every topic you can think of. The only thing not to love? There are so many to pick from.
“Podcasts tackle different topics in-depth, something you cannot get from a news story, a magazine, a TV show, or even a radio program,” explains Eric Leon, VP Sales here at Commio. “These also offer unprecedented convenience because you can listen to them whenever you want; save up episodes for when you are going on a long journey and pause the podcast halfway through to pick up again later.”
It’s only fitting that the Commio team shares our favorite digital audio programs to help you stay up-to-date and in the know on all things SaaS plus cloud communications, VoIP, SIP trunking, telecom, CPaaS, UCaaS and more.
CommioCast
Publisher: Commio
Frequency: Bi-Weekly
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Join us as we explore the features of Communications Platforms as a Service (CPaaS), discuss API-powered voice and text messaging solutions that replace outdated telecom hardware, and share insights on delivering reliable, high-quality calls and texts at scale. With decades of industry leadership and a proven passion for what’s next, the Commio team shares how our technology continues to evolve, ensuring your business has the right tools to communicate confidently into the future.
Recent Episodes
How to Comply With FCC’s New One-to-One Consent Rules
In this episode, we help business owners understand the new FCC regulations requiring one-to-one consumer consent for text messages and calls. Key decisions discussed include providing listeners with compliance resources like sample consent language and a free compliance review service. Significant risks highlighted are hefty fines for non-compliance and potential lawsuits. Upcoming deadlines emphasize the need for businesses to update their practices by mid-to-late January 2025 to meet the new consent rule. Finally, Commio’s future plans include developing new resources to aid businesses in navigating these regulations. Get our hands-on compliance resources for the FCC one to one consent rules.
What is RCS? The Future of Text Messaging is Rich Communication Services
Rich Communication Services (RCS) is one of the latest evolutions in messaging technology, promising a more interactive, feature-rich experience than traditional SMS and MMS. In the fast-paced world of cloud communications, staying at the forefront of technology can make all the difference in customer engagement and satisfaction. As messaging technology continues to develop, RCS presents an opportunity to transform how businesses interact with their customers. Here, we’ll break down what RCS is, how it compares to SMS and MMS, and how Commio plans to leverage this technology in 2025 to enhance the communication experience for businesses and their customers.
Official SaaStr Podcast
Publisher: SaaStr
Frequency: Weekly
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The Official Saastr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of Saastr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics, and strategies to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. How do you get from $0 to $100m ARR faster? What does it take to scale successfully? Many of our Commio customers are SaaS platforms, so putting SaaStr near the top of our list makes sense.
Recent Episodes
The Playbook to Blending Product-Led Growth with Sales-Led Growth: Teams, Tools, Processes with Amplitude’s VP of APJ Mark Velthuis
When done correctly, the product assists the sales and expedites deals. Sales can still score the goal, while product is a partner to the sales margin. Together, they’ll bring power to your products. PLG is a fantastic growth tool, but it’s not all or nothing. The best teams combine the power of the product and PLG with the power of sales-led growth. To pull off product-led sales, you need to get 4 things right:
- You need to have a great product.
- You need to build a free plan.
- You need to identify product signals to know how customers behave within the product.
- You need to train your sales team on how to follow up on those leads. If you can do these 4 things, your team will be stronger, better, and more efficient.
5 Things That Are Actually Working in B2B SaaS AI
Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig joined Seema Amble, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz at SaaStr Annual to share their observations on what’s currently working – and what’s not quite there yet – for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in SaaS. With Ironclad’s journey from an AI-first concept in 2014 to a Series E+ company and a16z’s extensive portfolio view, their insights offer a valuable perspective on the current state of AI in SaaS.
Telecoms Podcast
Publisher: Telecoms.com
Frequency: Monthly
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Telecoms.com is the leading online news and analysis website for the global communications industry that comprises mobile & cable network operators, satellite, colocation and cloud services players and all the companies that develop and supply them with technology, applications and professional services. With an unflinching take on all the breaking news, developments and trends affecting the market today, Telecoms.com is the daily digital destination for anyone involved in telecoms.
Recent Episodes
APIs, Vodafone/Three and GenAI
James is a telecoms software expert, so they started by analyzing the recent creation of a new venture designed to open up networks to developers. They eventually move on to examine what concessions Vodafone and Three need to make to get their mega-merger approved, before concluding with a look at generative AI from a telecoms perspective, which inevitably degenerated into dystopian catastrophising.
EXA, subsea cables and Salt Typhoon
The lads are feeling the pace after a busy few days but find the energy for the second pod of the week, this time featuring special guest Jim Fagan, CEO of EXA Infrastructure. They start by learning more about Jim’s company, during which they learn a lot about fibre, datacentres and much more. That eventually leads to a discussion about subsea cables and why people keep sabotaging them, before they conclude by reviewing the Salt Typhoon and Vodaphone/Three news.
Cloud Communications Alliance
Frequency: Weekly
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Based in Delray Beach, FL, the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA) is a peer association dedicated to the growth of industry. The group provides the forum industry leaders need to discuss key topics and advance their mutual or individual goals.
Recent Episodes
Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Sinch knows Black Friday 2025 will be very different
The telephone has come a long way since its creation 175 years ago. On its 175th anniversary, we look ahead to where #telecommunications is headed, especially with the advancement of services such as RCS (Rich Communications Services) and the invention of chatbots. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, Sinch reports that over a quarter of Americans will use RCS to complete their shopping. Julia Fraser, Executive Vice President, North America at Sinch, shares what’s ahead for the future of business communications, especially when it comes to personalization.
Beyond the Buzz: Monetizing AI and Voice/Video Collaboration for Maximum Impact
“It’s really about monetizing voice and video in a world where a lot of the conversation and a lot of the perception is that voice is kind of a legacy technology and it is a technology that is going away in some respects when the reality, if you look at some statistics and you look at how we actually communicate, is it is still absolutely critical to all of our communications,” says Jami Hill, Global Head of UCaaS for Zoom. In this podcast we get a first glance at Jamie’s upcoming presentation at the CCA Financial Summit Event: Beyond the Buzz: Monetizing AI and Voice/Video Collaboration for Maximum Impact
User Friendly
Publisher: User Friendly
Frequency: Weekly
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Want to stay plugged in to the biggest trends in technology, media, and telecom? Our TMT podcast series takes what you need to know and breaks it down into something more User Friendly. From social responsibility to the next emerging technologies, industry leaders join us to dive into the biggest topics shaping your business—and the world around you.
Recent Episodes
Scaling GenAI for Enterprise
Technology leaders are tasked with harnessing the power of AI at scale for the enterprise. But how can organizations implement Generative AI responsibly while creating business value? In this episode of User Friendly, the CIOs of Cisco and Deloitte US join us to explore promising GenAI use cases and the risk and governance controls that need to be in place to help organizations make the most of AI.
Creating a Customer-Centric Approach
It’s often said putting the customer at the heart of your business can deliver an exceptional customer experience. But actually fostering customer loyalty and satisfaction isn’t always an easy feat. Tune in to this episode of User Friendly to hear how tech, media, and telecom companies can meet evolving customer needs and develop effective customer success strategies.
Telecom Reseller Podcasts
Publisher: Telecom Reseller
Frequency: Bi-Weekly
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Join the team at Telecom Reseller as they report on the leading topics and brands in the UC field, including Twilio, Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business, Avaya, Plivo, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, Commio, Plivo, SignalWire, Vonage, and more. Whether it’s IP-PBX, Cloud PBX, SIP Trunking, or BYOD/BYOC, if it’s commercial-grade communications, these podcasts bring you the people, products, and partners who bring solutions to market: CPaaS, UC, UCaaS, Skype, Cloud, Collaboration, Mobility, Call Center, and Contact Center.
Recent Episodes
Meet AURA. She’s an employee. She’s watching: Huvr
AURA is Huvr’s groundbreaking AI brain, designed to support organizations by learning from sensor data, fostering communication, and enhancing efficiency. In this podcast, AURA’s proud father, Herman DeBoard CEO of Huvr walks us through AURA and the many ways AURA can serve organizations, be they enterprises or smaller businesses, with assets to watch. This episode outlines use cases, and channel opportunities and we discuss steps made to make people more comfortable by their new AI-powered helper, which goes beyond yet another algorithm.
Understanding the Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF)
As we learn in this podcast, the FUSF is not so cut and dry. As a specialist on this matter, Jeff outlines how companies can be looking at a less steep fee. But you will need a deep understanding of this matter, and likely, specialized help. “It’s not a tax. It’s a fee,” Jeff Lytle, of Sandy Beaches Software. “And it’s assessed on telecommunications companies.”
Analysys Mason
Publisher: Analysys Mason
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
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Analysys Mason is the world’s leading management consultancy focused on TMT, a critical enabler of economic, environmental and social transformation.
Recent Episodes
State of AI Adoption in the Telecom Market
In this episode, Analysys Mason’s Paul Jevons, Director and expert in tech-enabled transformation, and Adaora Okeleke, Principal Analyst and expert in AI and data management, discuss the current state of AI adoption in the telecoms industry. Key topics include a high-level view of operators’ adoption of AI, insights into current barriers to adoption, and the implications of adoption barriers on the technology vendor ecosystem.
Revenue Growth: Strategies of Successful Operators
Tom Rebbeck, Partner and expert in TMT consumer and business services, discusses telecoms operators’ revenue growth initiatives with Stefano Porto Bonacci and Ben Taylor, consumer services experts. They describe the three main strategies that operators worldwide have adopted to increase their revenue. Learn more in the associated article and report.
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