podcasts

also referred to as: podcast

10 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2022 by Austin Rief · across every show →

Everything said about podcasts, oldest first

Dec 15, 2022 neutral
Insight
Rief: Converting newsletter readers to podcasts is much harder than podcast cross-promotion
“It's hard because it's hard to convert people from newsletter to podcasts versus to your point, it's very easy to move people around from podcast to podcast.”
Austin Rief Dec 15, 2022 ▶ 7:16 Why Every Creator Should Have a Newsletter with Austin Rief
Jun 22, 2023 positive
Insight
Kenny: Directing e-commerce buyers back to podcasts creates growth flywheel
“All my fulfillment emails, all the followup emails, all the loyalty emails within my funnel pointed people back to the podcast. So it became this really nice cycle of organic content, Create a journal from it, market the journal with paid ads, push people back…”
Case Kenny Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 4:54 I met this guy who is the million dollar content flywheel king
Sep 7, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Girdley: Podcast consumption aperture is shrinking for 60-75 minute shows
“The aperture of consumption for potential podcasts is like, is shrinking. Like not only is People consuming less of them, but like the demand for people wanting. 60 and 75 minutes stuff. I think, you know, it's limited in terms of the options there for somebod…”
Michael Girdley Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 23:52 How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Insight
Jay Clouse: Breakout YouTube videos revive back catalogs unlike audio podcasts
“You have one video do really well. If the back catalog is good, it just gives the back catalog new life when one video does well. And that does not happen in audio.”
Jay Clouse Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 24:16 How Jay Clouse Built a $500,000 ARR Community (in Less than 2 Years)
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Insight
Clouse: Audio podcasts natively lack discovery and require external funnels
“There's no discoverability and like the re really the best way to grow audio listeners is either to have a massive top of funnel elsewhere already, or to get on other podcasts or do cross promotions. Like you really only convert existing audio listeners to aud…”
Jay Clouse Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 21:50 How Jay Clouse Built a $500,000 ARR Community (in Less than 2 Years)
Jan 5, 2024 negative
Insight
Torenberg: Podcasting Networks Face Major Risk Without Feed Ownership
“The challenge of podcasts when you don't own the feed is that the host can just leave you.”
Erik Torenberg Jan 5, 2024 ▶ 11:30 How To Build A Million-Dollar Media Empire | Erik Torenberg
Oct 7, 2024
Insight
Chaudry: YouTube is interruption-based; podcast feeds and newsletters are permission-based
“YouTube is like an interruption-based platform. Like, I have to interrupt your experience with a compelling title and thumbnail to get you to watch. Podcast feeds are actually permission-based as well as newsletters are permission-based.”
Samir Chaudry Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 32:43 How Creators Can Thrive in the AI + AR Era (Samir from Colin and Samir)
Jan 27, 2025
Assertion Supported
Senra: Only about 330,000 podcasts published an episode in the past month
“Even now, that's what, eight years later, there's like only like 333,330 thousand podcasts that have uploaded a new episode in the last month.”
David Senra Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 36:14 David Senra on How to Become a World Class Founder
Jan 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Senra: Bill Burr recorded his early podcasts by leaving phone voicemails
“The way he recorded his podcast is you would call a phone number and you would leave a voicemail and there's a service that changed the voicemail into an MP three player. They would take that MP three and then upload it for you. So he would literally, his earl…”
David Senra Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 3:42 David Senra on How to Become a World Class Founder
Oct 20, 2025
Insight
Courtney: 1,000 podcast listeners can fill two high-ticket annual retreats
“I only have like 1000 people or 1000 to 2000 people listening to my podcast. And all my podcast is the only audience for the people coming to my other in-person events. And still I can fill, you know, one to two, 35 people events per year and add a high ticket…”
Jonathan Courtney Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 21:54 Make $1M+ in 2026 with this Trend (IRL is back)
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