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S2 Episode 8: The Future of Podcasting with Podnews Editor James Cridland
Category: Business
Duration: 00:48:03
Publish Date: 2020-06-10 11:00:00
Description:

We spoke with James Cridland, Editor of leading podcast news site Podnews.

Podcasting is on the rise, with 96,500 new podcasts in May 2020 alone. On this episode we discussed a number of topics related to podcasting, including:

  • Is Podcasting is on the increase?
  • The half-life of a podcast series
  • Is podcasting the new blogging?
  • How Podnews started
  • Producing a daily podcast and newsletter
  • The future of RSS
  • Apple's dominance in RSS standards
  • Spotify as a competitor
  • Is Google number 3 in Podcasting?
  • Is the Joe Rogan/Spotify deal the first of many?
  • Will we see the rise of "walled gardens"?
  • Apple's dominance with podcast discovery
  • IMDB as a podcast directory?
  • The importance of measurement & monetisation
  • Monetisation beyond advertising
  • The future of corporate podcasting
  • Private corporate podcasting
  • What is the future of podcasting?

Quick fire round

  •  Favourite Podcast
  •  Favourite podcast app
  •  Apple or Spotify?
  •  Favourite length of podcast
  •  The last podcast you listened to

Three things to take advantage of podcasting

  • Subscribe to Podnews.net
  • Listen to other podcasts
  • Learn how to edit audio

More information on James can be found at jamescridland.net

The podcasts and products mentioned on the podcast are listed below

Podcast Festival - podcastfestival.events

The Bugle Podcast

Freenoter Podcast

Audacity

Adobe Audition

Hindenberg Journalist Pro

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