I just got back from SXSW and Podcast Movement Evolutions in Austin, and pretty quickly, it hit me: everyone has their own take on where podcasting is going. But between panels, random hallway chats, and waiting in line for coffee, a few themes kept surfacing. Podcasting doesn’t really feel like this niche, performance-only channel anymore....
Podcasting has always been personal. That feeling of connection, hearing a host’s voice, spending time with ideas that matter—it’s what has attracted audiences in from the start. But as podcasting continues to grow and evolve, so have the ways people discover new shows. According to Edison Research’s Infinite Dial, 33% of weekly podcast listeners in...