I've spent a lot of time in the depths of what's going on, so it's time to tell you what I've learnt.

In Episode #429 of 'Musings', Juan & I discuss: the evolution of podcasting across it's 20 year history, the good/bad parts of what happens on the inside, why advertising screws everything up, why you'll never be able to make ridiculous money from podcasting and a whole bunch of predictions for how the industry will change in 2024.

No boostagrams this week, very sad puppy :'(

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro
(1:02) - Topic
(3:12) - Is there a podcast industry?
(5:02) - History & growth
(11:21) - The Podcast Industrial Complex
(29:43) - You can't monetise the network
(34:38) - Spotify & cultural trends
(42:36) - Chat comment
(48:27) - Boostagram Lounge
(51:53) - PIC & Chat GPT Predictions
(59:07) - Podnews Predictions
(1:09:47) - Juan's Predictions
(1:15:58) - Summary
(1:26:49) - V4V: Send a boost


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