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Podcasting Platform Riverside Expands Into Publishing and Distribution

Published on July 1, 2026

Riverside is extending its platform beyond recording and editing into publishing and distribution for the first time, rolling out newsletters, social media scheduling and a rebuilt studio as part of what the company calls the biggest wave of feature releases in its history. The company is marking the shift with a rebrand, changing its domain from riverside.fm to riverside.com.

The rollout, spread over three weeks, also includes a rebuilt AI editor, in-person multicamera recording through Riverside’s Mac app, and AI-generated motion graphics that can be adjusted with a text prompt. An integration allowing an AI assistant to work inside Riverside is coming soon via a waitlist.

“It’s the biggest leap we’ve made since we started, and it begins with the biggest wave of releases in our history,” said Nadav Keyson, Riverside’s co-founder and CEO, in the company’s blog post.

The newsletter feature lets users convert an existing recording into newsletter content or write one from scratch, then publish it to a subscriber page without leaving Riverside. Keyson told TechCrunch that Riverside is not trying to compete head-on with dedicated newsletter platforms, but is instead giving its existing base of podcast and video creators a way to turn spoken content they have already produced into newsletter copy. The social scheduling tool lets users plan and post to multiple channels directly from the platform.

On X, Keyson framed the release differently, positioning Riverside as an “AI Producer” built to counter generic AI-generated video. “AI Videos are ALL slop. AI should be making you a content machine,” he wrote, describing Riverside’s AI as functioning like “your AI Head of Production, editor, content writer, and much more.”

AI Videos are ALL slop.

AI should be making you a content machine.

Introducing Riverside 2.0, the first AI Producer that creates authentic content while you sleep: pic.twitter.com/qnBHEorlAS
— Nadav Keyson (@NadavKeyson) June 30, 2026

In a follow-up post, he said Riverside now orchestrates a team of AI agents that prepare a rough cut, create social clips, draft a newsletter, and schedule posts once a recording ends, arguing that creators and teams currently spend only 20% of their time creating and the rest on editing and distribution.

A Crowded Push Into Publishing

Riverside’s move into newsletters and cross-platform distribution follows a string of similar moves elsewhere in the industry, according to TechCrunch. Substack launched its own built-in recording studio in March, beehiiv expanded into podcasting in April, and Mastodon added newsletter publishing for posts in June.

Riverside is also updating its recording tools to support multicamera setups and remote guests, alongside an AI video enhancement feature trained specifically on conversational podcast footage. The company is positioning the rebrand as a reflection of that broader scope.

Riverside started as a fix for degraded remote recordings, but the riverside.fm name, in Keyson’s words, “made sense when recording was the whole story, and it hasn’t been for a long time.”