Communicate: What We Learned From The Latest State of Podcast Industry Report
I unpack the recently published State of the Industry 2020 Report, the #podcast industry's movements standardisation including The Podcast Index, and some thoughts on monetisation, with Arjun RK on Communicate Middle East.
Ultimately, we don’t want to end up going down the same path as Youtube or Twitter, where there are always issues of creators stating that they’re getting shut out or the algorithm is deprioritising them, etc. We're trying to see if we can maintain that same level of decentralisation but also standardise some of the basics such as - reporting of downloads, improving the search and consumption experience, etc.
