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It’s no secret I talk a lot about automation — perhaps to your detriment! I fear I make it seem like automation is a requirement to save yourself time in your podcast. Or perhaps that automation is de-facto a complicated process for connecting multiple apps. But neither of those things are true. While listening to……

My latest piece for The Podcast Host is up; I look at Sounds Profitable’s The Creators survey and what it means for the future of podcasting:

Published in late June, The Creators is a research study from Sounds Profitable, in partnership with Edison Research, that sampled data from 617 U.S.-based weekly podcaster listeners who currently produce, or have ever produced, a podcast. They are all age 18 or older and are a subset from Edison Podcast Metrics, which gathers data from 8,000 podcast consumers per year…In other words, it’s the first credible study that gives us a good look at who podcast creators are and how they work.

Read the whole thing here

Now that we’ve been visited by the 3 ghosts, it’s time to have our, “Ebenezer Scrooge is a changed man,” moment. You didn’t think I’d end 24 days of podcast articles on doom and gloom, did you? There’s a lot to be Optimistic About We got a lot of great advice this December — not……