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The question is if it is any good, and also the challenge that all media has, especially digital media, is how you get awareness, how do people learn it exists? a lot of podcasting grows from word—of—mouth but also promotion — when you go to spotify or apple podcasts, theres mentions in newspapers or online social media, so that is your challenge. one of the issues that smaller operators might face with the big guys doing a good job is getting squeezed out. is it harder to find spots where...

We are talking about, spotify paid joe rogan $100 million to make his podcast exclusive to them. wondery and amazon — amazon paid $300 million. declan you do not have to confirm but you can tell us if it is wildly wrong. caroline, people are worried that when you have influences of californian west coast companies, you have a culture of homogenisation. —— influx. netflix, disney would say they employ local people, but you do have the stories that define our culture being funded from a patc...

Like buying an app, you can hit a button, they already have your credit card details, less friction, but the downside, they will take 30% of your revenue for the first year, dropping to 15% for subscriptions in the second year. not necessarily earning so much per user but you can get more money from more users. thinking of younger listeners, hearing all these people talk about how easy it is to get into podcasting and that there is a gold rush, young listeners do have stories they want to tell, ...

Basicallyjust going through their stories and journey, that is what we do with wannabe. with content is queen, it is about community and helping your podcast enter the market successfully because it is so much harder now to make something good that will be listened to, picked up and promoted. has it got harder than when you started? you and i did a piece together on this before. you have seen changes over the last few years, what specifically has got harder? harder to get the word out. content i...

For you, and prior to general release. —— that are ad—free. caroline, wondery is a us podcast company that has attracted huge investments before the amazon purchase, what can wondery offer the uk market that we do not already have? what you mentioned, money and funding, we have had some great ideas and creators in the uk but we have not had a home—grown venture—backed podcast studio that has tens of thousands, if not more to spend on a single show. i think that is where wondery could b...

As we know it, is this the consolidation of the industry around a handful of tech companies stifling new entrants, creaming off the biggest stars? or is this a wonderful thing? quality course, maybe customers should pay, enormous budgets thrown at tv drama, are we going to get a new calibre of podcasts that will blow our ears off for a few quid each and every month? —— quality costs. i have put together a panel of friends to talk this through. declan moore is the head of international for wo...

Relationship with your audience which spikes your numbers where a high percentage of people now want to support you by subscribing? because we are doing this on zoom, i can see you all, you all started smiling when people wondered if it is any good, you must have all lisened to a lot of bad podcasts. you run content is queen, what is it? wannabe is a podcast by young women of colour who are taking their careersin their own hands, careers in theirown hands, so it is about giving them the tools th...

Like you charge a subscription, does that appeal? i cannot say it appeals to me in 2021, i think if it had been launched five years ago, people like me might have been more interested. we all have systems now, i have my own completely independent platform company, like wondery has their own app, they have big publishers like npr on—board to offer subscriptions, but we all have built an ecosystem and i personally think they have missed the window. fascinating. matt, apple is not the first compa...

They helped birth podcasting at the beginning, they started the consumer podcasting boom. spotify have done a much betterjob in the past two years of promoting podcasts, building up, numbers out today — 380 million people use spotify every month. one of the dangers is, that could be independent creators, you fall down the cracks in between that battle, and spotify and apple are speaking their devices and apps and services, some of that is built on content from bbc, the people on this programme...