Who hosts Trends Podcast?

Trends Podcast is hosted by Trends.vc, Dru Riley. They have published 27 episodes. The show covers business, with a news focus.

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Recent episodes include "The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game", "Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped", and "The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games". The latest went out on 2 Oct 2026 and ran about 3 minutes. Reading two or three of these before pitching is the fastest way to see what the show actually books.

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Trends Podcast publishes weekly, a median of 7 days between episodes. Episodes average about 11 minutes. The back catalogue stands at 27 episodes. A show on this cadence plans ahead, so pitch earlier rather than closer to the date you want.

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Trends Podcast

Hosted by Trends.vc, Dru Riley · business · EN · 27 episodes

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What is Trends Podcast?

Trends Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Trends.vc, Dru Riley, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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Episode #27
The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game
Oct 2, 20263 min
A game where pigs ride a conveyor belt made its 20-person Istanbul studio worth more than $1 billion. How Pixel Flow went from a paper-and-pen test to more than a million dollars a day, and why Scopely bought in. Featuring: Kübra Gündoğan, Emre Çelik, Loom Games, Pixel Flow, Scopely Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Pigs on a conveyor belt and a $1B deal (00:27) Loom Games and its founders (00:40) Tested on paper first (00:56) How Pixel Flow makes money (01:06) Going all in (01:26) A million dollars a day (01:56) Copies and a new beginning Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Episode #26
Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped
Oct 1, 20264 min
A Roblox game about stealing eggs from pets hit six billion visits in nine weeks, three days before Roblox let players type a game into its phone app. Why the startups that sold that prompt box first now sell playable ads to online shops instead. Featuring: Roblox, Steal An Egg, Astrocade, AppLovin, Adam Foroughi, Playables AI, Rosebud Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) A kid types a game into Roblox Build (00:39) Who can make and play Build games (00:52) Steal An Egg and Roblox's discovery system (01:51) Crab Game and the browser link (02:38) Shops that want an ad people can play (03:10) Playable ads and who builds them (03:37) The opportunity: playable ads for shops Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Episode #25
The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games
Sep 29, 20265 min
A Squid Game knockoff typed into a prompt box hit 3.5 million plays in four weeks on Astrocade, an app that pays makers $100 when it picks their game and then pays on plays. What that feed pays, what it said about a $10 million creator fund and what can take the money away. Featuring: Astrocade, Roblox, Rec Room, Sequoia, David Cahn, Lovable, Bolt, Unity Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Crab Game and its seven trials (00:47) The $100 rule and the feed (01:23) From paying for engines to getting paid (02:05) Crab Game against the payout bar (02:34) Copies, Squid Game and changing pay (03:16) Rec Room and why feeds pay makers (04:09) Where to start Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Episode #24
I Investigated the AI Astrology Business
Sep 22, 20265 min
Faladdin sells a million coffee-cup readings a day out of Istanbul at about 90% margin. The buyer rates the reading on how they felt when it ended, so a model that never met them can do the job. The business that survives the regulators is the one that says on the page what the reading is. Featuring: Faladdin, AstroSage, Nebula, Astrotalk, Co-Star, FTC Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Sertaç Taşdelen learns to read coffee cups from his mother (01:44) A million readings a day, ahead of Tinder in Turkey (02:09) AstroSage rates its AI above its 700,000 human astrologers (02:40) Turkish police, a 1925 statute and the seized accounts (03:17) The FTC freezes Nebula over a $45 renewal (03:38) Why the category grades itself on stars (04:14) What the version that survives says on the page Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week.
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Episode #23
He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.
Sep 14, 20267 min
One engineer sold the loading line developers stare at inside Claude Code and served 100 million ads on a surface he does not own. Six networks copied him in a month, two are already dead, and the wait they sell is shrinking. Featuring: Andrew McCalip, Kickbacks, Anthropic, Claude Code, Codebacks, Idlen, Idle Dev, AdGuard, Gravity, Perplexity, Time, Ally Bank, Ramp, Linear, Varda Space Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) A founding engineer calls the Claude Code spinner the most watched line on Earth (00:35) Kickbacks sells the wait: $2 per thousand, half to the developer (02:14) Six copycat networks in a month, and two already shut down (02:35) AdGuard reads the code and prices a developer's data at $75 a year (03:29) Anthropic's Super Bowl ad said no ads in Claude, and its answer so far is a setting (04:11) The wait itself is shrinking as Claude Code moves to the cloud (05:47) Sell the line you own, without a network Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Recent episodes

The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game

Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped

The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games

I Investigated the AI Astrology Business

He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.

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James Clear

Jane Portman

Rob Walling

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Recent episodes

The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game

Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped

The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games

I Investigated the AI Astrology Business

He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.

Guest Appearances

James Clear

Jane Portman

Rob Walling

AdGuard

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