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<v Speaker 1>It's a great place to escape to Arrow dot net

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy your exploration. Yeah, what's going on? It's Arrow, host

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<v Speaker 1>of the weekly podcast Podcrashing and Podcrashing one on one.

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<v Speaker 1>These episodes connect listeners to podcasts specialists around the world.

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<v Speaker 1>My goal has always been to inform our community with

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<v Speaker 1>subjects that deal with everything and beyond. The purpose of

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<v Speaker 1>Podcrashing one on one is to help you build your

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<v Speaker 1>own platform, promote it, and maybe even earn some money.

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<v Speaker 1>This is pod Crashing one on one episode number four

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<v Speaker 1>eighty five. We're endlessly reminded of the one million new

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<v Speaker 1>podcasts that reach streaming every single week. Wow. One million

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<v Speaker 1>new ones? Huh wow? How true is that? More importantly,

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<v Speaker 1>how many of those million new podcasts a week are

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<v Speaker 1>actually maintained and updated with fresh material? Podcast index hits

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<v Speaker 1>two different birds with the same stone. Of the four

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<v Speaker 1>million podcasts available for listeners around the world, get this,

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<v Speaker 1>only four hundred thousand are physically active. Yeah, only four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand. A great question for podcast index would be

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<v Speaker 1>who's tracking the RSS feeds across every podcast platform. The

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<v Speaker 1>first bird is going to be the four million podcasts. Bird.

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<v Speaker 1>Number two is the four hundred thousand whom listeners are

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<v Speaker 1>truly taking in. Basically meaning you aren't competing against four

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<v Speaker 1>million other people. It's only four hundred thousand. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>authentic number of episodes released just in the past thirty

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<v Speaker 1>to ninety days. Why are some podcasts remaining inactive? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the excitement is gone. Most were projects or experienced connected

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<v Speaker 1>to trade schools. Well, we know how that works. The

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<v Speaker 1>enormous amount of work has turned a lot of good

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<v Speaker 1>people off, and that big COVID spike effect is nearly gone. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, podcasts exploded onto

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<v Speaker 1>the world because creativity was something that people had enough

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<v Speaker 1>time to do. And today they're not really connected to

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<v Speaker 1>the idea of sharing their podcasts. Hey, coming up next,

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<v Speaker 1>let's really break this down. Four million podcasts versus only

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<v Speaker 1>four hundred thousand that are active. I'm still having a

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<v Speaker 1>hard time digesting this. Hey, welcome back to podcrashing one

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<v Speaker 1>on one. What does it actually mean that instead of

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<v Speaker 1>four million podcasts being available for listeners only, really four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand are active. Pod fade is very real pod fade.

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<v Speaker 1>There's proof that four million people have exited, which is

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<v Speaker 1>much different than who's still alive. The average podcast host

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<v Speaker 1>isn't pulling off my expectations as a podcaster. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>the radio man in me since twenty twelve has programmed

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<v Speaker 1>five new ten to twenty minute episodes per day, five

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<v Speaker 1>days a week. That's me Monday through Friday. The more

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<v Speaker 1>normal podcast performance checks in maybe once a week or

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<v Speaker 1>even once a month. They have very very tiny audiences,

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<v Speaker 1>which means they're download numbers eh slim to nothing. Those

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<v Speaker 1>who update regularly actually fit into a smaller gray area.

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<v Speaker 1>They're seen as being more serious than most when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to podcasting. Podcast Index pays very close attention to

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<v Speaker 1>what's moving, what's growing, and what's influencing. It's well documented

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<v Speaker 1>that podcasts aren't expected to run forever, which might be

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<v Speaker 1>the reason why so many podcasters create unlimited series. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>burnout is very real. People's real jobs have shifted and

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<v Speaker 1>a healthy podcaster my God, they're being hit from every side,

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<v Speaker 1>especially if they're not making money. It's like, uh, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, yeah, maybe this weekend. And wow, those unpaid hours,

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<v Speaker 1>even if you are getting the downloads, they're not matching

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<v Speaker 1>the hours that you're poorking in there. The competition isn't

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<v Speaker 1>the high thing that we should be really looking at

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<v Speaker 1>because it's only four hundred thousand other people doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't say that podcasting is near its death. The hell,

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<v Speaker 1>we're just getting started. I'm Errol and that's podcrashing one

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<v Speaker 1>on one