Our 18/19 Winter Buyer's Guide & "Best Of" Awards

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Blister editors Jonathan Ellsworth, Luke Koppa, and Sam Shaheen talk about the making of our 18/19 Blister Winter Buyer’s Guide, the current state of Buyer's Guides in general, some of the “Best Of” award winners, and our Product of the Year.

And if you have any comments or questions about the Guide that you’d like to see us address on a future GEAR:30 episode, feel free to email us or leave a question in the comments section to this episode’s show notes on the website.

TOPICS & TIMES:

On the Print Buyer's Guide & Other News (2:12)
Our Guide and the state of Buyer's Guides in general (5:31)
Our Product of the Year (9:12)
Some of our "Best Of" Award Winners (11:56)
What we'll be discussing in Part 2 (29:06)

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:08.6	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out all the other stuff we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:19.1	We've been on a bit of a podcast hiatus since we were extremely tied up with our 1819 winter buyer's guide.
0:26.5	But our brains are now back to functioning fairly well, and we are going to be back on track with our weekly gear 30 schedule.
0:34.9	By now, we hope you've had a chance to check out the Buyers Guide. A whole lot goes
0:39.5	into putting together a book like this. So today I'm talking with Blister editors Sam Shaheen
0:44.7	and Luke Kappa about some of the specifics and we'll be circling back to some related topics
0:50.1	on some upcoming episodes. But today, Sam, Luke, and I talk a bit about the current state of buyers' guides in general,
0:58.3	and then we discuss some of our Best of Award winners, our product of the year, and more.
1:05.2	Finally, if you have any comments or questions about the guide that you'd like to see us
1:09.2	address on a future Gear 30 episode,
1:11.7	feel free to email us or to leave a question in the comments section to the episode's show
1:16.5	notes on the website. And now, let's get to my conversation with Sam and Luke.
1:23.5	Well, I'm here today with Sam Shaheen and Luke Kappa. We actually recorded this a while back when the three of us were in our new headquarters in Crested Butte at elevation. And it was really lovely. And we were, the group was together to debrief on the making of this
1:45.9	buyer's guide.
1:47.3	And it was a really nice moment in the news space.
1:50.2	And then the audio was all messed up and was completely corrupted.
1:55.0	So we didn't get to use that.
1:57.1	And we are actually full disclosure, not in the same room right now, but we are
2:02.4	re-recording this conversation about the making of the buyer's guide, and so them are
2:10.1	the brakes.
2:11.3	A couple of things I wanted to say before we get started, the print edition of the
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