The pace of change the podcast industry is undergoing is staggering. The implications for podcasters, hosting providers, podcast listening app developers, and advertisers and agencies are enormous. And so is the growth potential. Presented as a companion to the weekly newsletter of the same name, our podcast provides you with direct access to our narrated articles, interviews with industry experts, bleeding-edge research, and can't miss industry news recaps. That Sounds Profitable, right? Assumptions and conventional wisdom will be challenged. Easy answers with no proof of efficacy will be exposed. Because the thinking that got podcast advertising close to a billion dollars annually will need to be drastically overhauled to bring in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars podcast advertising deserves.
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episode 248: Brand Podcasting Summit, Open Internet Study, Publishers Holding Strong, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting:
The Free and Open Ad-Supported Internet
Brand Podcast Summit Keeps the Focus on the Audience by Jeff Vidler
In rocky digital advertising landscape, advertisers reconsider direct mail by Kimeko McCoy
Digiday+ Research: Publishers held onto their staff and titles last year, even as traffic fell by Julia Tabisz
…as for the rest of the news: SXM Media signs $100+ million three year exclusivity deal with Smartless, Acast’s Megan Davies talks about AI’s role in podcasting, and Triton Digital’s Sharon Taylor has published predictions for podcasting’s 2024 from nine industry leaders.