2022 Wrap-Up

Audience

Today on Audience, Stuart and Matt talk about 2022 and the future of podcasting. There was a lot of news in big tech last year as well as the recession playing Hokey Pokey with the general public. Stuart and Matt chat about how those things affected podcasting as an industry and what 2023 will hold for Audience and the industry in general.

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Today you’ll learn about:

• Spotify and the evolution in Big Tech
• The recession and podcasting
• Evergreen content in podcasting
• Podcasting’s advantage? Accessibility and staying power
• Marketing vs just putting out quality content
• Changes in 2023: seasons and live events
• Centralized vs decentralized podcasting, and what we learned from Spotify and Twitter
• Autonomy in podcasting
• “What if Elon Musk bought Spotify?”
• Open source, Podcasting 2.0, and RSS feeds
• Mastodon and the big Twitter exit
• Blue collar digital workers
• The upward trajectory for 2023

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