Thanks for the comment, Mike! There is certainly a glut of podcast content out there — and not a lot of truly great content — so that isn’t helping. I do think there is room for spoken word audio to grow — we listen to over 4 hours of audio per day, and I think speech could increase its share of that. Totally understand your decision to retire the podcasting track, but maybe it just isn’t a good fit with your constituents. Podcast Movement was thriving this year, and PodCon likely will be, as well. I think we are just at a tipping, or possibly sticking point. More money in the space will bring better content, but we need better content to get more money ;)

Thanks for reading, Michael A. Stelzner!