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Speaker 1: This is pod Crashing one on one episode number four
Speaker 1: eighty five. We're endlessly reminded of the one million new
Speaker 1: podcasts that reach streaming every single week. Wow. One million
Speaker 1: new ones? Huh wow? How true is that? More importantly,
Speaker 1: how many of those million new podcasts a week are
Speaker 1: actually maintained and updated with fresh material? Podcast index hits
Speaker 1: two different birds with the same stone. Of the four
Speaker 1: million podcasts available for listeners around the world, get this,
Speaker 1: only four hundred thousand are physically active. Yeah, only four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. A great question for podcast index would be
Speaker 1: who's tracking the RSS feeds across every podcast platform. The
Speaker 1: first bird is going to be the four million podcasts. Bird.
Speaker 1: Number two is the four hundred thousand whom listeners are
Speaker 1: truly taking in. Basically meaning you aren't competing against four
Speaker 1: million other people. It's only four hundred thousand. That's the
Speaker 1: authentic number of episodes released just in the past thirty
Speaker 1: to ninety days. Why are some podcasts remaining inactive? Well,
Speaker 1: the excitement is gone. Most were projects or experienced connected
Speaker 1: to trade schools. Well, we know how that works. The
Speaker 1: enormous amount of work has turned a lot of good
Speaker 1: people off, and that big COVID spike effect is nearly gone. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, podcasts exploded onto
Speaker 1: the world because creativity was something that people had enough
Speaker 1: time to do. And today they're not really connected to
Speaker 1: the idea of sharing their podcasts. Hey, coming up next,
Speaker 1: let's really break this down. Four million podcasts versus only
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand that are active. I'm still having a
Speaker 1: hard time digesting this. Hey, welcome back to podcrashing one
Speaker 1: on one. What does it actually mean that instead of
Speaker 1: four million podcasts being available for listeners only, really four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand are active. Pod fade is very real pod fade.
Speaker 1: There's proof that four million people have exited, which is
Speaker 1: much different than who's still alive. The average podcast host
Speaker 1: isn't pulling off my expectations as a podcaster. I mean,
Speaker 1: the radio man in me since twenty twelve has programmed
Speaker 1: five new ten to twenty minute episodes per day, five
Speaker 1: days a week. That's me Monday through Friday. The more
Speaker 1: normal podcast performance checks in maybe once a week or
Speaker 1: even once a month. They have very very tiny audiences,
Speaker 1: which means they're download numbers eh slim to nothing. Those
Speaker 1: who update regularly actually fit into a smaller gray area.
Speaker 1: They're seen as being more serious than most when it
Speaker 1: comes to podcasting. Podcast Index pays very close attention to
Speaker 1: what's moving, what's growing, and what's influencing. It's well documented
Speaker 1: that podcasts aren't expected to run forever, which might be
Speaker 1: the reason why so many podcasters create unlimited series. I mean,
Speaker 1: burnout is very real. People's real jobs have shifted and
Speaker 1: a healthy podcaster my God, they're being hit from every side,
Speaker 1: especially if they're not making money. It's like, uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah, maybe this weekend. And wow, those unpaid hours,
Speaker 1: even if you are getting the downloads, they're not matching
Speaker 1: the hours that you're poorking in there. The competition isn't
Speaker 1: the high thing that we should be really looking at
Speaker 1: because it's only four hundred thousand other people doing it.
Speaker 1: Don't say that podcasting is near its death. The hell,
Speaker 1: we're just getting started. I'm Errol and that's podcrashing one
Speaker 1: on one