@evoterra Zuck is like a crack cocaine seller. He gives enough value to begin with which hooks you in and then you feel you can’t leave.

@james and I return on 2nd January with our look back to 2025 both the highlights and the lowlights. We also review our 2025 predictions. How did we do?

And finally our predictions show for 2026 is out on 9th January. Lots of left field predictions in […]

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2/3 - Buzzsprout 's Jordan Blair highlights that we'll see an "absolute brick wall of AI fatigue".

• Roman Wasenmüller from Spotify focuses on what he calls the authenticity and loyalty that has shaped podcasting.

• Shea Simpson from Amazon says that video will continue to evolve.

• Ellie […]

@phillycodehound @james we have something special planned for all of the PWR supporters early next year.

@phillycodehound @james thank you and most appreciated

Is history repeating itself? In the past people owned their own blog and published an RSS feed for others to consume in readers. However people got frustrated that no one was reading their posts or leaving comments.

So along came Facebook. People could […]

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So in 2026, we should try and raise the awareness (again) of the importance of RSS.

RSS = POPE - Publish Once Play Everywhere. (Audio, Video or Live). You OWN your RSS feed and it is HOW you distribute your content everywhere.

Making people more aware of the underly tech aka RSS also makes […]

@merryoscar @james @dave @adam @russell @mijustin

Here is what we see in our Creators Dashboard in the Alt Enclosure.

4/4 - Dates for your diary.

We will be posting our friends and supporters podcast
- 12th December 2025 hashtag#friends

James and I will do our review of 2024 and highlights and lowlights
- 18th Dec 2025 hashtag#highlights

We will do our 2026 predictions show
- 9th Jan 2026 hashtag#predictions […]

3/4 - PWR

5. Audio is still the #1 way to consume podcasts, despite the chatter about video.

6. How loyal is your podcast audience? The ideal is for repeat listeners, not just tire-kickers. Dan Misener from Bumper has learned that every podcast has an average lifetime value score and it can be […]

2/3 - PWR

3. RSS.com has launched free podcast hosting. Made for local & niche podcasters, the free plan offers unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, and analytics. Paid users get access to transcripts, programmatic ads, and YouTube posting.

4 […]

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4. The biggest data point we show you is the ‘Total Time Listened’ across all apps that played it. hashtag#time

5. You can see how many times the app was played. hashtag#plays

6. You can see how many apps played the episode. hashtag#apps

Later this week we will drill down further and […]