Podcasters
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Lopez: AI audio flood will increase the value of trusted human hosts
“And ultimately, the people who are afraid that AI is going to create an influx of so many low quality and cheap alternatives to actual real voices, I think what they're not seeing is that in that environment, if that environment does happen, the value of a con…”
Codie Sanchez: More plumbers make six figures than podcasters
“In fact, there's way more people that are plumbers. Making a hundred K than podcasters.”
Senra: Podcasting is an industry full of second-rate talent
“This is a market, an industry full of second rate talent. It started out as excessively low status”
Emanuel: Podcasters will increasingly receive equity deals over standard ad sponsorships
“That will now start happening With people like you, other podcasters. That, that's just the natural evolution because of where broadcast television is and cable television is. Manufacturers are going to have to get to an audience.”
Isenberg: Podcasters spend at least 2-3 hours per episode on notes and clips
“Podcasters burn two to three hours at least per episode, episode polishing show notes and clipping TikTok teasers.”
Podcasters and independent commentators played a major role in recent elections
“News commentators, podcasters, or whatever you want to call them, played a big role in that election. And I do think that candidates that got the word out as a result of engagement in what, you know, in generations past or years past would have been overlooked…”
Parr: Podcasters are not safe from AI automation, but plumbers are
“11 Labs has, they use like a Stephen Fry voice, and they read the news. I listen to it. It's awesome. It's not safe. We're not safe. No one's safe. Maybe like a plumber. A plumber's safe.”
Puri: Service agencies should target e-commerce stores over cash-poor podcasters
“The mistake here is people try to do this for podcasters. They're like, Hey, you should be posting clips or you should do this. I'll do it for you. And then what they forget is that Most podcasters don't have any money or they don't have enough. They don't mak…”
Podcast Creator Endorsements Were the Keystone to Early Squarespace Growth
“The fact that you could do it yourself was an educational sell, so we had to find long formats. And true, this format was one of our keystones to success, but we found podcasters and that ability for someone to actually share their experience with it really he…”
Hutchins: Most creators do not treat their work like a business
“I find that most people don't treat the creator world like a business.”
Ek: Podcaster ad monetization is a huge priority for Spotify
“One of the big things right now is obviously this is a huge thing, perhaps even more so than music for us to offer monetization to a lot of these podcasters that perhaps unlike yourself can't sell ads.”
Puri: Podcasters should build a cult, not a community
“I think for a podcast, you don't really want to build a community as such. You want to build a cult. So, so basically you're like, what is it that we believe that not everybody believes, and let's put that on blast, and then a bunch of other people who believe…”
Deicke: Help Founders had more podcast slots than applying startups
“And I think at some point we had more podcasters and more slots on podcasts and actual products.”