Reaching for Five Billion in Podcast Advertising #619

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Todd and Rob in the afternoon.
Hey.
Afternoon
delight.
With Todd and Rob.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Here we are for the new
media show, and,
of course, every plan goes sideways as soon
as you go live. I'm I apologize for

(00:20):
those of you watching
because,
Rob and Steve are scrunched, and I'm full
screen here. So who knows what's going on?
But, gentlemen, welcome. Think it works.
Yeah. It does. I just wish I just
wish it would be the normal size, but
I I didn't have time to correct.
But, welcome to the show. And, of course,

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for those of you that don't know,
Rob, why don't you introduce our guest?
Well, let me set it up a little
bit. Okay. There's been some discussions,
in in the industry, and Steve Steve, our
our guest here, which I haven't introduced yet,
but if you're watching the video, you can
certainly see it.
Some topics, and Todd and I have been

(01:02):
talking about this topic for actually many years
actually around
how do we get podcasting off of this
$2,000,000,000
revenue
kind of level? Because
we've been kinda living at this $2,000,000,000
ad ad revenue level for, like, the three
or four, you know, three or four years
probably More. Than projecting.

(01:23):
Yeah.
And and
so, Steve and,
and a few of the folks have have
kind of come up with some ideas. So
welcome to the show. Steve Goldstein. He's the
founder and CEO of Amplify
Media and has
spent many years in the media,
space on on the radio side and has
spent over the last, you know, many years

(01:44):
now focusing on podcasting and kind of that
that that convergence. So, Steve, welcome to the
show from New York.
Very nice to very nice to be here.
First time, I think, maybe maybe. I'm not
sure. I think you're on me maybe four.
Yeah. It's been a while. I think maybe
I was on maybe I was on once
before, but a pleasure to be here nonetheless.
And,

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and I am celebrating
ten years of Amplify Media
this coming month. Wow. Wow. That's how long.
And I'm a newbie
still compared to you guys. Well, I don't
know about that. You know, it's
it it doesn't change hasn't changed that much.
Probably, hence, the reason why you guys are
talking about get to 5,000,000,000. I have a

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I have a hypothesis on how to get
to 5,000,000,000.
Yeah. Well, that's why I thought this topic
was perfect. It's I'm trying to be funny,
Rob. You you missed
it. What? I'm trying to be funny here,
but you missed it.
Well We we monetize 95% of the shows
that don't have advertising, and we put fifty
fifty ads in each of them.

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Oh, so you wanna follow the radio model.
Well, you know, no. Not necessarily because, you
know, that that that is a complete,
that would never happen.
So,
you know Right. In all reality,
it would never happen. It's all the ad
loads are already too high. We can't handle
anymore. Well, some people think they can handle
more ad load. But Yeah. Anyways, I I

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haven't read the article or whatever the the
drama is. So I'm kinda curious
what the, what the, what the plan is
to get the 5,000,000,000.
Well, sure. So so, you know, I'm teaching
at NYU. I'm teaching a course called the
business of podcasting.
And, it is not a course on how
to make a podcast.

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Like so many other courses out there, this
is on the ecosystem.
And so, of course, we end up discussing
the eco part of the system,
which is that $2,000,000,000
number.
And I had,
Pierre Bouvard in
from Westwood One.
He's the chief insights officer. But maybe more
significantly,

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he spends a ton of time in front
of buyers
and always has.
And so he understands
the whole
buying, selling ecosystem
maybe better than just about anybody I know.
And so he spoke to the class, and
we talked about the 2,000,000,000 number.
And, we started laying out with the class

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how this moves north.
And, I thought his
comments were revealing,
and yet none of them were surprising.
But there are so many different facets to
trying to move this number north. You do
need to break it down. But I think
the most fundamental thing is that the audience

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keeps growing. And so theoretically,
the revenue should keep growing.
But unless you want to add in more
mattress sellers and food vendors,
which is 50% of the business today,
you're probably not going to see the number
grow
significantly. And that is Pierre's contention as well,

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that you want to be in on the
advertising
agency buys. And these are brands
who are looking for something entirely different. They're
not really looking for the same kind of
brand lift. They're not looking to give you
a coupon code and sell the mattress today.
You know, Delta Airlines has a different mission.
They they are trying to build their brand.

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The younger
audience. Podcasting brings that.
And so they need
some things to participate.
One,
they need some kind of rating system.
And podcasting has yet to come up with
a single simple to understand
rating system. And, you know, in TV

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and radio, there's Nielsen.
And people hate it, but people use it.
And it is the standard by which most
things are purchased.
And we could spend a whole other show
talking about why that's a mess,
but
it would be a good mess for the
podcast business
to have one standard chart.

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And Pierre feels that the Edison chart is
closer because it encompasses everything.
It encompasses
any of the podcast platforms,
and it can also handle YouTube or Spotify
video or whatever. So that,
maybe that's the right way go. I'm I'm
not advocating

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specifically for Edison, but I am advocating for
unification.
If you go to PodTrak or you go
to Triton, you're getting a slice,
but you're not getting all
of the companies.
So you really don't know who's not who
what. You don't know who's leading the way.
And I think Dan Meisner is quite right
in trying to move the industry off of

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downloads.
I'm sure you guys agree with that,
and into something more consumption based.
Did I just get a number, Rob?
Well, I think it's a con controversial
topic,
only from the standpoint that, you know, this
medium really in its roots was built on
downloads.
And for us to transition to something else,

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can be
leads the industry more towards metrics that are
coming out of proprietary platforms. Well So Yes.
And that is the that is the difficult.
Well, you know everybody is keeping the stuff
in their pocket, which is a really bad
idea. You know what's funny is,
when did we do our first IAB meeting?

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Was it It was back in 2014,
probably. No. Well, there you go. Anyway,
so the
the promise
that I've been certification was is this is
gonna bring the brand advertisers to podcasting.
This is the information that they're missing. Is
it has to be you have to have
a certified number, and the brand advertisers will

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come when you're certified.
Well,
uh-huh. They didn't come.
So Oh, no. They did they did come.
They did come. Just not as much. Again,
5050%
of the podcast business today is brand advertisers.
And ten years ago, that number was zero.
Well, that's true. So so they did come.
Right. They just haven't come

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with the velocity and the dollars and the
numbers we wish to hope for. Right. Right.
Right. But again, I think if we
look at the truth you know, here's the
thing.
They can they can
they can
make up all kind hey. This is what
this network's doing, and this is the Nielsen
or this is the Edison Research rating,

(08:33):
but gotta have volume.
And
the volume is the key.
You know, you have Totally.
You know, the volume is just not there.
That's the problem. Even if it's Yeah. They
get these these buyers to buy wide instead
of narrow, which they've been

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I think they've been narrowing down.
Oh, they're narrowing down. Yeah. Right.
Well, but that so the plumbing needs to
be fixed. The plumbing will start with we'll
call them ratings if that's the right term.
Mhmm. But let's let's start there. But then
you get into other issues of, brand safety.
I mean, if you go to a Procter

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and Gamble or a big company like that,
they're not gonna buy
widespread until they know what they're buying. Wow.
And so you have companies like
Barometer,
which
Pierre contends are in the right space but
not famous at this point. In other words,
brands are not even aware that they exist.

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And until they figure out,
I'm talking about the brands here,
until they can figure out
how all of this works, they're reticent to
put their money into 300 podcast at a
time. I And so they are putting their
toes into it, but they're not jumping at
it. But behind closed doors, these same people,

(09:57):
again, not saying the same people you're talking
to, but the same people are telling me
they're not asking about brand safety. They don't
care. It's just a word they have to
use. Otherwise,
if they don't use the word and say
we're brand safe, then they're then it's a
it's a political thing. So
I'm I'm not convinced that

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it's brand safety holding
shows back. I mean, holding advertisers back. I'd
like to have an advertiser say it publicly,
a big one, that we're not advertising in
podcast because we don't feel it's safe to
run our content
in
a whole bunch of shows. I'd like to
hear them say that publicly because no one
ever has

(10:38):
to my knowledge. No brand advertisers ever said
that. So,
you know, okay. So so if we give
a brand safety,
hypothetically,
then what more they want? Because this has
always been the story that's happened so many
times. If you give us this, they give
us pixel tracking, oh, the brand advertisers will

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come. If we have attribution, they will come.
If you give us this, if you and
we give and give and give and give,
and they're not here. Well well
well, we're not giving enough
because we are not on the platform.
What do I mean by that? I mean,
when they wanna
spend money,
they have software that they go into

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that has,
TV in all of its forms. Yeah. Yeah.
That
is certainly evolving rapidly.
And they
have all the other media, but podcasting are
not on that platform
because of the measurement issue. And so, we're
not giving enough.
We are not making it easy. And as

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long as we're not making it easy, they'll
just pass over it. And the numbers are
not
so huge for podcasting
that they need to buy it. On the
other hand, if you want to reach Gen
Z, I don't know how you're gonna do
it
with legacy media, which is falling apart right
now, right in front of our ears and

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eyes. Yeah. And so
the faster we can get our act together,
the faster the money is gonna move in
this direction. We have the story.
I mean, cable TV, the median age on
cable TV is 70 cable news is 70.
Yeah. And that's being cut.

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Talk radio,
close to that. Paul Jay (zero twenty seven:forty

four) (12:25):
Maybe a little higher. Paul Jay (zero
twenty

seven:forty five) (12:29):
Sports talk radio, a little younger,
but Nielsen, when they publish the numbers,
they say that it's 58,
not the real number because sports is a
little younger and talk radio is a little
older.
But
there is nothing in the 36, 30 seven
year old neighborhood
a generation lower.

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TV is aging out.
We're talking about
legacy TV.
Yes. They do better when the shows are
repurposed onto platforms like Peacock or Paramount Plus.
That does bring the age down, but it's
still
quite hot. You know?
And and not to throw a bone in

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this, but what's interesting is is there is
a way
right now of course, maybe the right people
aren't listening. There is a way right now
to get client side tracking off of podcast
apps.
And
it's through the chapter function and being able
to fire a pixel when a episode hits
a certain part during a chapter. And, of

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course, there's only a handful of apps that
are supporting that, and you could get that
information from.
So, you know, there's always been these come
things that people have want. Well, we we
don't have what Spotify has because Spotify has
all the click through data. Well, we have
the potential to give you all the click
through data, but Apple's not gonna play. So
that's 50%.

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And then
whatever's left,
that listening audience is listening in a traditional
podcast app.
You know, then there's only a small percentage
of those that actually support it. There's ways
to fix some of this data that they
say we wanted for years, but
I I I'm sorry. I guess I get
to be a little pessimistic because

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we've everything we've done
that they say they want
has never been enough.
And
You're you're not there yet, Todd.
It's you you have to look at from
the buyer vantage point,
not not the podcast. You know? We're we're
inside the jar. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm

(14:36):
talking about. If the buyer's telling us what
they want,
every time we give them what they want,
then the dollars do not follow. This has
been a But but but but let's come
up 5,000 feet. Okay. Right now,
Wondery has pulled out of whatever service they
were on, PodTrak, Triton. I don't know which
it was,

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because they can't roll up all their numbers.
And by all their numbers, what do I
mean? I mean
TikTok impressions and Instagram impressions, YouTube impressions. This
is where the business is going.
Yeah. NBC TV, I think, is a fantastic
example. I love taking these things out of
the medium that we're in and focus on
someone else's Mhmm. Because there's always greater clarity.

(15:18):
So
legacy TV. You know? You watch channel four,
you watch channel seven. Pretty simple.
But we're not in that era anymore. No.
Now you're watching
an NBC show on the app. You're watching
it on your mobile device. You're watching it
on Peacock.
You're watching it on YouTube.
Yeah.
And

(15:39):
Seth Meyers was on a podcast,
and it was a Puck podcast.
And the interviewer said, does it bother you
that people aren't watching the whole show, Seth?
He said,
no.
It would bother me if they couldn't watch
any of the show. I will take it
on YouTube where they're watching
elements, segments of the show, or I'd be

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off the air.
And I do think that's really where we
are today.
So so NBC
has said to themselves,
sheesh, we better roll this stuff up and
come up with a way to present these
numbers.
And I think it's the same thing in
podcasting. Whether we wanna be in video podcasting
or not, separate show,

(16:24):
You need to be able to present the
bulk of the audience on all these different
platforms, roll it up, and say, hello, advertiser.
We have something really attractive for you. Right.
And we've made it easy to purchase. Well,
I think that's
probably what most people are doing. I don't
know anyone that's not rolling up all their
numbers.

(16:45):
So
if you're if you're smelling up done
done
kind of
really in a way that's consolidated that comes
from these platforms. People are doing it manually.
Yeah. They have to, sadly. Right. Because it's
it's all there no cooperation
amongst the Yeah. The industry. Well, YouTube YouTube's
not gonna give you an inch.

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Well, that's not talking Rob, you're talking about
the individual podcast companies,
and and I think that's right. I think
that everyone has their own way of doing
stuff. And some of them
are sharing,
and some of them are not sharing.
And no one wants to come out and
talk about the real numbers.
Right. That that that's something that has never

(17:28):
happened as long as I'm careful with your
passport. Yes. Yeah. That's what I keep saying.
Totally. Yeah. Totally. So so you're smart and
you're stupid depending on the week and the
day.
But ad advertisers
are not they they don't have the time
or the Oh, I agree. And as Pierre
points out, many of them don't even have
an audio department.

(17:48):
So you really do need to find a
way to serve this stuff
and make
it easier to buy or else you'll never
get to buy. You'll get the pinprick buys.
Yes. Somebody wants to be an Alex Cooper
They'll figure out a way to get into
Alex Cooper.
But you need,
I have a stat here. You need to
reach 70% of the weekly podcast audience.

(18:11):
You need to purchase
300 podcasts.
Is anybody doing that today?
I'll bet the answer is no. No.
Well, it and Steve, I wanted to kind
of that that's probably a good place to
slide in this conversation around brand safety and
suitability.
With what we've been through over the last,
I guess, about six months with the Garm

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platform kind of getting shut down,
I know that the barometer platform was built
on the Garm spec.
And so so
my question is is how has brand safety
and suitability
helped,
grow
the ad buys for
into podcasting?

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Or as my concern has been is that
brand safety and suitability oftentimes is an excuse
for brands to not buy into the industry.
Yeah. I think I think you're exactly right,
Rob.
They they they do wanna check the box.
Todd, I think you're also is that if
they get it, are they really going to
use it? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know the
answer to any of that. But I do

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know that,
you know, there's a CYA component to this.
If you're going to spend hundreds of thousands
of dollars on something Yep. And your boss
comes in and goes, okay.
You know, I just heard the f word
on this, and I heard an n word
over there. And Yeah. What the heck are
you doing? Right. You know? That's not where
you wanna be,

(19:36):
And the brand doesn't wanna be there. So
you do need
this component. But I do agree, completely agree,
that that is not the magic
Darius term bullet
for
for growth. I think it's part of the
formula. You know, I look at the total
number

(19:56):
of downloads. Let's just use that word, plays
that we measure every month, and it's north
of 300,000,000.
So that's just
us and the shows that are that we're
measuring.
So, you know, if you just do the
quick math on 300,000,000
and divide it out by thousand, divide it
by 20 or 25, and, you know, you
get the number that is potential revenue for

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one ad in every show.
And
you take all the other host
and you add up the entire volume
and and, you know, the IB was at
one time collecting those numbers.
You get all the if you get all
that total
potential
buy
and then you take 50 percent of it

(20:38):
out because 50% of podcasters don't want an
ad,
so then you're left with whatever that number
is.
You know, that's the value
of
that audience and some duplicated, but largely not,
you know, largely unduplicated
across categories.
I don't see how you get to $3,000,000,000,

(21:00):
let alone
to 5. So,
you know, I I hey. More money for
everyone's healthy. And, you know, I'm always thinking
any way we can get there is good
because putting money in content creators' pockets keeps
them renewing their hosting plan and keeps them
motivated. And I mean, they can make a
car payment if they're lucky or a house
payment or, you know, whatever it may be

(21:21):
that is
their goal. I, you know, I'm all for
putting money in podcasters' pockets.
But,
and I shouldn't be cynical because I sound
like an old curmudgeon, but damn. I've done
we've done everything they've asked over the years
and still
want more.
You know? And and and I'm gonna argue

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the other side. Okay. I don't think I
don't think we've done a fraction of what
they've asked because they haven't asked. Well, that's
true too. Mostly. Yeah. Mostly. Yeah.
They've ignored the category. That's true. But the
beauty of the moment that we are in
is that podcasting has reached a mass audience.
That's so incredible and exciting,

(22:04):
but they don't know this.
They really don't know this. I mean, they
anecdotally
probably do, but in terms of spending the
dollars, no one has said, okay, why are
we buying this TV stuff anymore?
It's aging out. I mean, don't walk in
here with another CSI show. Get me something

(22:24):
that's gonna deliver
a 35 year old. Get me into a
Gen z podcast.
Get me into 200
Gen z podcast
because I need to launch a product.
All of those sorts of things
have not been done. I think part Not
even close. I think part of the problem
in is is another thing too.

(22:45):
When you have a buyer let's go into
Mediacom.
You go to Mediacom and you see the
people that are controlling the RFPs for whatever
bucket of
and they're 23
to 27, 20 eight years old.
They they have their clients. They're they're rinse
washing, repeating the RFPs, and they're flighting

(23:08):
ad deals and all that.
And then when you go this has been
our experience. You go in with a hundred
shows
and the manager says,
oh, I know that one. But who the
hell is the rest of these? And takes
a red marker and draws a red marker
through 99 of the other shows
and Yep. They're out.

(23:28):
And you're like So what does that tell
you? What does that tell you? Why are
they doing that? Because
it's not a name they know.
It's not
a Rogan.
It's not a Shapiro.
It's not a Tucker. It's not it is
it is not a name.
Who's Todd?
This geek guy.

(23:48):
Okay.
That
x, you know, they write an x through
that.
So
and yet, I've had a sponsor for nineteen
plus years that continues to renew every month
because we continue to to to make
make our numbers. So,
they know something. They end other people don't.

(24:10):
And don't get me wrong. There's a whole
formula to that. And there's well, and there
are a lot of niches
Yeah. Where advertisers are all in on podcasting
because it's
ridiculously efficient.
And they only need for a podcast to
cover the category
or maybe even fewer.
But that that is a really narrow player.
What we're what we're talking about is something

(24:31):
essentially ticking different. We're talking about brands
that are used to spending a lot of
money.
And they want to flood a category.
And this one is too hard to buy
at the moment.
And it'll get better
because the incentive is there, but it is
But But it it it it has to
get better or else you could be at

(24:52):
2,000,000,000 next year. But even Ford, when Ford
was actively advertising
in the this would have been probably in
the heyday of Twitter,
where Ford was doing active buys and they
were wining and dining podcasters like me and
taking us around the country and driving Ford
vehicles and get a little advertising out of
the deal.

(25:13):
The amount of money that they were
advertising was no more better than what I
was getting from any other ad deal. So
they, you know and again, they were being
super, super targeted.
If we can get beyond and, you know,
again,
if someone can figure out a way
to to have the whole all ships rise,
hey. I'll I'll jump on that.

(25:35):
But,
you know, the question is A unified chart
a unified chart with real ratings
and consumption
would go a long way
to getting
podcasting
onto the dashboards
of these advertising. David Collum (zero 20 seven:forty

four) (25:52):
So so what is a consumption number?
Is that just a fancy way of saying
that this is this has so many plays
or downloads? Are we just changing the definition
again? Or what's con what is consumption? It's
always impressions. Right?
And impressions. Is is it? Is it impressions?
Yes. Well, that's what it is on the
TV. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The radio

(26:14):
side. It's certainly impressions.
And that's what they're used to, so let's
give them that. Yeah. We've changed the word
twice already, so I guess we can change
it one more time.
Yeah. It's not just content impressions. It's it's
specific ad placement.
Did my ad play at two minutes and
thirty seconds?

(26:34):
Yeah. That's right. That's where you That's right.
Todd, that's where your idea came in around
the chapters. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
Up being able to have those ad placements
happen during during a chapter marker. Yeah.
And it's, you know, and and it's
there's a there's some technical hurdles to jump
for privacy and all that other stuff. But
Yeah. It is a

(26:56):
it's well proven. I proved it myself. Yeah.
I proved that it works.
And I can see who listened to the
beginning of the GoDaddy ad, who listened to
the middle, and who got to the end,
and what that number was across the ad.
I could say, okay.
X tens of thousands started
and x tens of thousands ended
or
skipped because I can see if they skipped

(27:16):
too because they didn't hit the middle marker
and they didn't hit the end. So,
you know, we've got it. It's just a
matter of, you know, is there is there
is there willingness of people
like the people in the traditional
old school apps, I guess we're gonna call
those,
is the overcast and those folks willing to

(27:37):
put that feature in there. I doubt it.
Yeah. But, you know, sorry.
Domain to knock it overcast. But what is
that? 1.2%?
Three and a half, four. Yeah. Okay. But
they're the highest of independent podcast staff. So,
you know Well, great. Then then it should
be on the list. I mean, I'm not
I'm not Oh, yeah. Yeah.

(27:57):
Impugning their business. I'm talking about seeing that
the business has shifted. But he's got, you
know, the whole
inventory of shows. So it's and not every
show is gonna do a chapter file. But,
again, I think
I think it's hard. I think it really,
really is. You got Spotify that's locked up
their segment. They're not gonna give no data
out besides what they do.

(28:18):
Apple's worried about privacy. They give the numbers
they're gonna do. They're not gonna expand.
You know, where are we gonna get this
data?
I've got data.
You know, we allow our customers to share
that data if they want.
But,
again, sometimes people your customers are Well, I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell you why. It's very
obvious to me. And it's a it's it

(28:40):
it boils down to, you know, you you
listen to some of the stuff that Rob
talks about sometimes over at Lipson about averages.
And there's some shows that are very small
and some shows that are very large,
but the very small shows
drag down the average. I will say
that the
average is increasing because there's fewer shows now

(29:01):
active, two two hundred and forty thousand every
ten days.
So the listeners are all still here. That's
the amazing thing. So the listeners haven't went
still growing. And it's still growing. And they're
and those listeners are going deeper into the
into the pile now. They're not just looking
at the top 50 shows in a category.
They're going deeper.
So we're seeing show growth,

(29:23):
but, again,
you know, they're not true that the big
shows are getting bigger. Oh, absolutely.
So so the
the listener traffic and viewer traffic is gravitating
increasingly towards the bigger shows.
And that's what's shifting the whole market, right,

(29:43):
to to a smaller number of shows that
are getting all the attention and all the
ads and why we're starting to see,
you know,
too many ads
showing up and, and starting to show up
in the survey data that the audiences are
saying, we're kind of,
you know, feeling too many ads in the
content now. Oh, but and here here's the

(30:04):
problem with that concentration
beyond the obvious.
Yeah.
It's
they they are then competing to beyond those
shows. We're talking about PMs, and
we're talking about
this is great for Alex Cooper. David Collum

(zero twenty seven:forty seven) (30:19):
Great for him. Paul

Jay (zero twenty seven:forty eight) (30:21):
But that's rarefied
there.
So
now
take that to the next level.
It's up to the business to say, you
know, you don't need to be on Alex
Cooper
to reach women 18 to 24.
Here are 10 more podcasts
that are going to get the job done

(30:41):
for you. And you're gonna look like a
hero because you're gonna be bringing it in
at a much more efficient level. It it
always blew me away. I'd I'd go to
the media buyers and I'd say, listen. I
said, you're spending
here's the five shows you're buying
this quarter for this product,
and you're only getting five ad spots or

(31:01):
10 ad spots a week. That's all you're
getting. They're doing one, two episodes. You're getting
10 spots.
But if I added these other 30
over here
or 40 or 50 and for just a
little bit more money,
I can increase your ad spot count by
an enormous number. Frequency.

(31:22):
And What about frequency? And Right. The smaller
shows perform in a much higher level than
the bigger shows do.
And
your your cost for acquisition cost, because we're
talking to a Doctor, is gonna go way
down and you you're gonna look good. But,
oh, no. We can't go.
Got got my got my five. We can't
get approval for the other ones. It was

(31:43):
easier, believe it or not. It was easier
to sell direct when you could talk to
the company.
To them, that conversation was simple. When you
talk to a media buyer in that way,
it's too much work.
I have to write I now I gotta
write 50 RFPs.
So I used to tell them, hey. Just
one promo code.
You write one RFP. I take care of

(32:04):
everything else. I'll send you the reporting every
week.
And we can't use
separate promo codes. We have to have separate
promo codes in Doctor for each show. And
I'm like, why? Long as you make your
CPA.
You know? Keep sending me checks. The Doctor
agencies
the Doctor agencies are a separate monster. Yeah.
And podcasting has over performed Yeah. Beautifully

(32:26):
for that sector. I mean, we know so
many advertisers Yeah. That are so happy with
podcasting.
But that's not the pile of money that
we're not the pile of money. You're you're
looking for the Ford, the CBS, the Geico's,
the yeah. It's the big brands. The big
ones. The big brands. But what but what
you said is also,
Todd, is that they don't wanna do all

(32:47):
the work. Right. It is hard work. Oh,
it is. And the the audio buyer
is, you know, the low man on the
totem pole.
So, they need help.
It's our job. It's our job
to help them. That's how you get money
from agencies
is you make your case and you make

(33:07):
it easier to buy. I'll give you an
example.
Network radio, which has been around forever.
I mean, it's certainly not a growth business
any more than any other part of radio's
growth business today.
But network radio was a solution for a
lot of advertisers
who didn't wanna go
buy advertising in the top 80 or 100

(33:27):
markets.
Oh, god. I'd have to go into each
market. I'd have to find the three radio
stations and each of those markets, and I
don't have enough time.
So network radio would swoop in and go,
look, we don't have everything you want here.
But
we have networks of women 25 to 54.
We have sports listeners. Whatever it is, we

(33:49):
can do the bulk. We can deliver the
bulk audience to
you. And
because you're not buying each of these things
separately,
it's way cheaper.
So for a lot of advertisers,
they go, yeah.
Yeah. I like the spray. Let's do the
spray. Let's get it out there. Mhmm. Let's
get the name of this company out there

(34:09):
for the next two months.
Boy, they sure aren't doing they they used
to do that in podcasting in the very
early days, but they haven't since 02/2008,
'2 thousand '9.
They used to buy five, six, seven, eight
hundred shows at a time. I know because
I was running those campaigns and no more
hair because of it.
You know? But it's yeah. Here's your check.
Rock and roll. Let's just look for performance.

(34:31):
Do this.
You know? And there was very few shows
that were off the table and if, you
know, if it if it even made a
half semblance of sense.
But, you know, we never ever got a
brand advertiser. I I remember, you know, going
to Detroit and going to the agency, and
I remember, you know, going in there, and
I'm like, here's
a let you know, it was like there

(34:51):
was like one our tech network at the
time was doing, like, 11,000,000, which that's not
a lot of numbers, but back then it
was. And I'd go to say, hey. Here's
34 shows. 11,000,000
downloads a month, press for selling downloads.
Well, I only want one or two.
And Early days. Early days. Yeah. So Now

(35:12):
Yeah. Let's go. You have
a third of Americans listening to podcast on
a weekly basis. Yeah. These guys,
we need to help them
divert funds. That's the whole story. And if
the IAB can't do it Yep. Somebody else
needs to step in and do it. Because
the IAB promised it didn't happen.

(35:33):
Well and I can't speak to that other
than
there's money out there in them hills.
Right. And someone needs to go find it.
And yes,
the SXMs and the Wonderees can do a
part of it, but they can't do what
we're talking about here. And that's bringing in
all of these other shows
and making this easy and efficient.

(35:55):
But the timing is now, I'm repeating myself
a little bit, but I think it's worth
it
because legacy media is more effed up than
it's ever been. That's a fact. And it's
going down,
and the dollars are there,
and podcasting has the greatest
story
in all of advertising.
And I am not exaggerating. I think Yeah.

(36:17):
I agree with you, Steve, that if the
if there ever was an opportunity,
for podcasting
to to kind of capture those budgets more,
I I would think now is the time.
And then,
you know, the question gets back to is,
why what's holding it back? Just like what
you're trying to answer here and and what

(36:37):
what needs to happen because those buyers will
eventually realize that
podcasting is the new mainstream media that they've
they've built their their whole business around.
And that they're gonna wanna get into this
medium. And if they hold back,
their companies are gonna face probably a revenue
decline if they don't.
And And they're not doing the job for

(36:58):
their client. Right. Exactly. You know? But but
if you're not in that buying medium mix
system, other than that, you know, I mean,
I I can't tell you that I fully
appreciate all of that other than
I understand just enough of it. That if
you're not in the modeling and you're not
in the medium mix systems that these agency

(37:18):
use,
then you're done on the buy. You know,
the paper like, the thing I'm concerned about
is
we and we've done this to ourselves, the
podcasting space. They're you know, you you talk
to the all the majors, one to read,
you know, all the ones that are doing
the majority of the buys. They won't they
won't even look at a show that has
less than 10,000 listeners per episode. They won't.

(37:40):
It's even higher than that now. I believe
it's probably up closer to 20. So if
if if they're looking so if they're looking
for just 20,000
and above and ignoring
ignoring hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of probably
a billion
probably a billion impressions a month. They probably
just left on the table. I bet you

(38:01):
there's a billion impressions a month left on
the table.
Maybe There's also a billion dollars. And So
so that's called programmatic.
Well, in And so the smaller podcasters
are not gonna get the customer service that
the big ones are gonna get. We know
that. Yeah. So let's make the programmatic engines
that much greater. It's already happened in streaming

(38:21):
audio. That worked. We're That That business lives
in it. I've got a large number of
shows on programmatic right now that are smaller
shows.
And As you should. Yeah. And I mean,
it scales really easily. Yeah. It well, it's
real easy. Click a switch and you're on.
Don't do anything else. Continue doing your content.

(38:41):
And the more that happens
and the more GRPs
they're able to buy that way, I'm talking
about the agencies Yeah. The more comfort they
will have
and the more money they will divert into
the sector. Yeah.
You know? That would make Rocky happy. You
know, we've integrated with SoundStack, so they do
all of our programmatic delivery. I I don't
even have to you know, they send me

(39:03):
a report every month. Says this is how
we did. I'm like, great.
There you go. We send the podcasters here
great. Send their send us send them their
check. I you know? But, again,
Ford's not gonna do programmatic.
Will they? Probably not.
And
so if we want to get to let's

(39:24):
just okay. If we wanna get to 5,000,000,000,
we we have to
basically, what you're gonna have to do is
you're gonna have to get
every show,
every show that wants advertising that has an
audience of a thousand more listeners.
And
and again, I don't think you can get

(39:45):
there then
without that without the ad frequency being out
of control. But
I you know, again, we've been trying for
years to make that happen. Of course, you
have a super niche show. They you know,
you're a you're a neurologist,
and you're reaching a thousand neurologist surgeons. Yeah.
You you you're bank. You're you're good. You
know? You you basically you're You don't need

(40:06):
any of this. Right. No. I I I
I,
there was a guy, I've mentioned him before,
does an HVAC
podcast.
He used to I met him at podcast
moment years ago.
And, and and his business was HVAC,
his love was podcast.
Figured out how to marry those two things.
Yeah. And he's doing hundreds of thousands of

(40:27):
dollars a year Yep. Talking to
the guys who buy
carrier units and train units. Right. And those
things are hundreds of thousands of dollars, those
units.
And so what does trainer carrier want?
They want a couple of those guys. Right.
That's what they want. Yeah. That's true. Need
10,000 listeners. Nope. They need

(40:48):
they need
500 guys who are buying these things. But
that that adds to the ecosystem.
You know, there is
a quarter of a million dollars you add
to the you need add to the annual
total of people making money.
So well, okay. Half million, whatever he's making.
Again, that

(41:08):
that works, but
there's not a lot of those niche shows
out there.
Well, I do I do I do think
there are a lot of niche shows. They
don't necessarily know how to sell. Yeah. That's
that's true too. That's a whole separate I
mean,
there's some there's an opportunity for somebody Yeah.
Where somebody is. Mhmm. But but we need

(41:30):
to focus on the big dollar So shifting
them over. So his first. His hypothesis
is that if we have an Edison
that gets insights
okay. So we're we're not gonna fill out
diaries, by the way. So if we get
an Edison if
we have an Edison that has Something wrong
with that. Has It doesn't work very well.

(41:51):
That's Well, you know, I used done one
before. I used to get my $3 and
write I used to write in podcast names.
Yeah. Just just as a little aside, if
I might, I was chairman of what was
the Arbitron Advisory Council,
now owned by Nielsen,
but,
twice.
And,
that we were in the diary business, and
then we finally got into electronic measurement.

(42:14):
And,
that was supposed to open up a lot
of things, but it also scared the crap
out of broadcasters.
No. No. No. We can't have people find
out exactly what was happening.
Oh, interesting.
Have five minutes equal 15.
Yeah. That's the way it's been forever. And
now it's three minutes equal 15. Yeah. Right.
Not a year. Yeah.

(42:35):
But
we have
we have the data.
I mean,
we we we can tell you how many
people listen to this particular podcast and how
much of it they consume and whether your
ads were heard. That's pretty fantastic.
Yep. Yeah.
And and I
Steve, go ahead, Rob. You you also mentioned

(42:55):
about the whole brand lift,
topic as well as an important component of
this. Are you thinking that this is applied
to every podcast they buy, or are you
thinking more broadly?
So
Pierre is the one who brought up the
Brand Lift. I am not as,
as far in the camp on Brand Lift.

(43:15):
Sure. There are some advertisers
who wanna know, you know, did their podcast,
investment work.
I'm not sure everything's measurable on the brand
level. Let's go back to Delta Airlines.
How do they know?
And they do have mechanisms and they do
have ways
to do this. But I don't think we're

(43:36):
talking about that same kind of brand lift
that you know, Signal Hill does a lot
of and other companies. So just a different
sort of metric, I think, we're talking about.
Mhmm.
Yeah. I you know, I
if if there was
an entity,
whoever,
that said,
here's the top

(43:57):
25,000
shows,
you know, and let's say that gets us
to they that's it gets us to 3,000,000,000.
If they all would get monetized,
again, I still think there is difficulty
because of the paperwork and all the stuff
that goes into it in
executing
on that large

(44:18):
of a buy,
because there's not
a lot of trust.
I I just
and I and it's probably well spoken because,
you know, I've, you know, I've caught people
pumping the numbers all the time too.
So,
yeah, it's it's it's interesting. I I don't

(44:39):
know. I again, and I understand why
people want all their numbers because some properties
have great success on YouTube. And for those
that don't, well, they don't.
But
That's right. Thing in every use case will
do for me. But YouTube is going to
monetize that against that anyway.

(44:59):
So the only piece that you're gonna get
out of the YouTube piece is a host
endorsed that you have to disclose and, you
know, you gotta make sure you don't piss
off YouTube.
So
but still, it's valuable.
It should be valuable.
Well, and Spotify is approaching this differently, and
they are seeking top tier podcasts right now
and coming in with a compensation model. Will

(45:21):
that change going forward? I'm gonna guess yes.
But today,
since it just started
and and and and look, what we're talking
about here is the land of the giants.
Okay? Right.
Spotify wants to be YouTube. YouTube wants to
be Netflix. I mean, they all Yeah. They
all have
a mission. But the primary mission is to

(45:42):
keep ears and eyeballs on a platform.
Yeah. And and that is what they are
for. Exactly what they wanna do. They don't
want you leaving. Podcasters.
That's right. Yep. And we, podcasters,
brought in ears and eyeballs,
sometimes both,
And and we we deserve to be compensated
for that. Oh, I agree.

(46:02):
So we're on their platform, and we play
by their rules. And guess what?
They don't care.
Well, so let's let's transition a little bit
and talk a little about the the programmatic
and host reads and kinda how we see
that that playing out as we see
a lot of these big platforms like Spotify

(46:23):
and YouTube kinda shift the industry towards direct
upload publishing.
I'm not talking about the RSS audio submissions.
I'm
really talking about as we think about video
and how that translates into the podcast industry
side.
What's that going to do to kind of
the the ecosystem here where monetization

(46:44):
is split
between these big platforms
and the podcast hosts?
And then also, you know, what advertising lives
with the podcast host or the content creator
versus what's gonna live in the consumption platforms.
And I think this is a this is
a very complicated discussion around where the the
paths are going forward.
Steve, do do you have a thought on

(47:05):
this? Well, I I had a I had
a large client who was early into video.
And when I say early into video, I'm
talking about
six six, seven years ago. Okay?
Did not want to give up control over
the ads that were in the show.
But
YouTube said, sorry, we're controlling the ads in

(47:26):
the show if you want to be on
the platform.
And this client said, well, but there's certain
kinds of ads I really don't want
Mhmm. In my content.
Okay?
YouTube says we can handle that. We can
we can code and prevent
any kind of clients that you don't want
on
on.

(47:47):
Mhmm.
But let's focus on what we're gonna do
for you. We're gonna send you a check
every single month.
And when they showed what the number was,
all of a sudden, that's why it was
a lot more interested.
Yeah. As they should have been. Right. Because
for very little extra work,

(48:07):
a couple of lights and a couple of
mics await. We already had the mics, so
we're just adding the lights and a and
a simple camera.
You're gonna write me a check every month?
Fantastic.
Now that's not the case for everybody,
but there are many cases like that today.

(48:29):
Yeah. So how are we gonna build the
the the infrastructure
in this to help,
kind of make it easier for content creators.
Because I'm increasingly feeling that that we're creating
a
content creator ecosystem that's
kind of unsustainable,
for most creators.
So
it just,

(48:50):
it really is pushing more and more creators
to have to have teams
to be able to participate in these
type of environments.
Mhmm. Because no one person can do everything
anymore because of the complexity of these bigger
platforms.
And so you add in this layer of
monetization that's gonna be tiered and across
multiple different platforms. How do you manage all

(49:12):
that as a as an independent producer? And
I think that's the real
challenge that we're seeing in the industry right
now is that independent producers are not entering
this medium into podcasting
because their priorities are around monetization first.
And to get to monetization
is such a complex process right now.

(49:34):
You know, so the space and the industry
is really playing towards the advantage of big
creators.
And that that's why we're we're seeing the
big creators
that have teams and are able to build
successful shows. And are we becoming
just like
a legacy media was where it was very
exclusive club of content creators? Are we heading

(49:55):
back towards that again? It already is, Rob.
I know. But but are we rapidly
making this medium unattractive
to new content creators?
I personally think the new content creators have
been fed a line from whoever they've talked
to. They have unreleased
realistic expectations. They gotta put in the work.

(50:16):
Even on YouTube, you gotta put in the
work.
You know, you gotta have good content. You
gotta do all the right things.
And For free. You know, I I think
probably having a YouTube channel is harder than
having a podcast. But again,
an audio podcast. Let me just define that.
So I don't know. You know? I if

(50:37):
there if there's an expectation you're gonna get
paid right away, I think you're gonna be
disappointed on either side.
YouTube, TikTok, wherever. Live right into that. Yeah.
I mean, look. As you said you said
earlier,
there are, what, 240,000
active podcasts
ten days out? Yeah. Mhmm.
You know, there's a reason for that. I
mean, go go and look at

(50:57):
the the chart. You've got the charts Yeah.
With Todd. I mean, every one of the
platforms has the charts. Yeah.
Everybody experimented.
Everybody realized quickly that there weren't going to
be stars
or
that doing the fifth episode or the tenth
episode was way harder than the first episode.
So a lot of them bailed out. Okay.

(51:17):
That's true. That's true of content in general.
That is true on YouTube in general. Yeah.
But, you know,
we we are in the third phase of
podcasting.
The first phase was to me on d
zero,
which was pretty darn simple. You had the
baked in ad. Right. Yeah. And the and
the second phase
was when companies started coming in and was

(51:37):
the throw spaghetti against the wall era where
they were all trying stuff. And, you know,
so you ended up with dopey deals and
overpaying for stuff and, you know, royalty never
producing their podcast and all sorts of chaos.
That was that was that era of of
throwing stuff against the wall. We are clearly

(51:58):
in the what's a podcast era
and it is not settled and it's not
going to be settled anytime soon. But
when you see announcements like today's announcement
of, you know, how many billion views there
were on YouTube That's a number. Of podcasts,
that's a number. That is a number, and
that tells you what's going on. And then

(52:19):
when I think about it through the lens
of my Gen Z students,
I'm
quite
quite clear.
And you guys are welcome to come in
anytime.
You will hear from them, and they will
tell you with clarity.
We expect content to be on YouTube.
That is the content machine.

(52:40):
And whether we watch it or we listen
to it, that's our decision, and we'll continue
to make that decision. And some stuff we
don't think should be a video podcast,
but we'd also like to make that decision
for
most of the shows whether we're gonna listen
to it or watch it.
That is where we are,
and that is chaos

(53:00):
for a lot of producers, but it's also
opportunity.
And it isn't gonna be resolved in the
next twenty minutes,
but it is where we are at this
moment.
And I'll just
circle back to the money
and say, but the money is here. If
we can go get organized

(53:21):
and figure out how not to keep all
of our really good data in everybody's individual
pockets,
that will be a good thing for the
industry. I mean, I went to that podcast,
at, in a business forum in Brooklyn last
week.
And Dan Meisner was right. Yeah. On Airfest.
And Dan Meisner was running a session,

(53:43):
talking about aggregating all of the metrics.
And,
and a lot of the companies in there
were not eager to share metrics. Of course.
Why not?
Why not
grow up? Protect in their sandbox.
Yeah. That's always been the case in this
space is that
it's like trying to corral stray cats.

(54:05):
Everybody's off doing their own thing. Here's a
funny thing too. As a hosting provider, I
don't care
if they share their stats,
but I understand why some of them don't
want to.
Sure. I understand too. Yeah. So if you
look at television ratings, there are some shows
that suck. Yeah. Well, what happens to those
shows? They go away. They perish. But, you

(54:26):
know That's okay. But, also, at the same
point, some shows don't suck. They're just small.
You know? So Some shows do not get
discovered. They live in the lower left quadrant
Yeah.
Of, well, the lower left quadrant is low
quality, low awareness.
But they The lower right quadrant is
high quality content, low awareness. Yeah. That's a

(54:47):
real problem. There's a lot of great shows
that do not get low audience. Right. And,
you know, I mean, in, you know, the
call I get nine out of 10 times
when I'm talking and it's, you know, we've
talked about it here on the show a
hundred times, you know, how do I grow
my audience?
And you ask that content creator you or
that podcast, you say, you know, what's the
goal of your show? And they can answer
that. So there's already a fundamentally

(55:10):
an issue,
or they have to make it up on
the call.
Used to be used to go look at
their website. I don't even go look at
their website now. I just start with that
conversation. So,
you know, because if you don't have
a good plan for your show and who
you're trying to reach and, you know, everything
that goes along with it, how do you
know how to make good content for that
particular audience? Now if you just wanna do

(55:30):
a fun show with your buddy and drinking
beer,
that's cool too. You know, do what you
wanna do. There's plenty of successful
shows out there that are just, you know,
having fun and drinking beer.
Yeah. Let them do that. Yeah. Good content
is hard. Yeah. Good content. It has always
been hard. This is not a podcast
conversation at this moment. Yeah. It's a content

(55:51):
conversation. It's always been difficult. Yep.
But what is happening today, I think, at
a greater level than ever before
is mediocre content is getting crushed.
Oh, I would say sure.
Continue. That will continue. And as we move
into this era of AI where machines can
create
content,
you just can see more mediocre stuff. Although

(56:13):
some stuff we've been looking at,
and we'll see how it pawns out.
I think audiences
I'm I'm currently, personally, I'm running away from
that type of content. Soon as I hear
that voice, it's on 50 other YouTube channels
or on I even hear one in a
podcast I sample. I'm immediately back out of

(56:35):
that content
because I'm trying to seek people that are
real,
you know, and
someone that's genuine.
The
I think people will seek this content out.
So, you know, it'll take some time.
It'll take some time, but I think there's
gonna be a divide at some point of
we're gonna put all the AI generated here

(56:57):
and here's your legitimate,
real,
true voice
content. Maybe I'm wrong. But
Well, I think eventually I can build that.
The customers well, but I think the customers
the listeners will figure that out. Yeah. I
mean, when I was at CES a couple
of weeks ago, one of the terms I
came away with was AI slop.

(57:18):
Yeah. And that is not a term I'm
making up. That is a term that I
heard several times.
And I love the term because it really
sums the whole thing up. And audiences
are smart enough, shrewd enough, pickle enough. They
have multiple choices.
They can tell when something
feels fake.
And that doesn't mean that there isn't opportunity

(57:39):
to do AI baked content. There is. I
think so too. But
I think by and large podcasters are pretty
darn safe if they're creating valuable,
fun, interesting content. The machines don't know how
to laugh yet. Maybe they will,
but right now they don't. And so, you
know, I I think that that is,
the safety zone for podcasters.

(58:01):
All the safety zone for podcasters. Although, we
could get to a point
Yeah. At,
you know, what's what's up, Lavin Labs is
doing.
And there could come a time,
and it's not that far away
that if a model is trained well enough
with a voice and they are able to
get the inflection stuff under control and understand

(58:22):
the mannerisms.
Moods and emotions.
If they get that done in the next
couple of years, then
I could just we're already seeing a 3,000,
AI generated podcasts are already being tracked.
So, you know, what happens when that number
goes to 25,000?
You think you're listening to Rob? That number

(58:44):
so low.
Yeah. You it
when when do you hear Rob in five
different shows, five different days, and me in
10 shows on, you know, there could be
this and then then it's all hell's gonna
break loose because
you're gonna have to do video maybe to
prove that you're the person until they get
the sinking down and then maybe that's not

(59:05):
even the case.
So That's what they keep saying is that
the only proof of life is,
doing
live live video. Well, live video with a
clock There you go. With a with a
clock being showed up saying it's 04:01 right
now, but even that can be faked. You
know? So
who knows where this is headed. Gentlemen, I
am being kicked out of the conference room.

(59:26):
Okay. Alright. So so I have gotta go,
but I must say I've enjoyed the conversation.
I know we've solved a ton of problems.
Oh, yeah. Well haven't.
There was a bunch more to talk about.
If there's a solution, I'm all in.
Because I'm all in putting money in podcasters'
pockets. I'm all in.
But Oh. And and I don't wanna be
told again that's not enough.

(59:49):
It's gonna be more. Yeah. Not enough.
Alright, Steve. Thanks thanks for being on.
Pleasure. Yep. Thank you so much for joining
us, Steve. It was great. Well, now you're
full size here.
Yes. That's true.
Alright.
Well,
you know, this is
a it's a very challenging

(01:00:10):
topic and discussion.
You know, and there's no easy path forward
here.
I don't think. No.
So it's it's layered with so many different
layers that,
it's gonna take time to work this out.
And
we've been heading down this path for, like,

(01:00:31):
a good five years now, and we still
haven't worked it out. Yeah. Well,
Rob, it's been going on since 02/2009.
But it's really been at peak
of mind over the last probably about four
or five years. Well, you know, here's the
thing. We we
the brand advertisers, everything that we've done
Right. Everything that we've done has not been

(01:00:54):
enough for the brand advertisers. And and, yeah,
they come in with more money, but they
came in with more money for
20
2% of the shows.
And Yeah. None of that trickled down. And
it's it's been that way.
And here's the plain fact. You know? I

(01:01:15):
I I think there's no chance in hell
they make $5,000,000,000.
I I think I think that that's just
a a pipe dream.
If if if we made it to $5,000,000,000,
every podcaster that's actively producing a podcast right
now will be able to retire.
Well, Todd,
it it begs another question is that a
lot of these ad buying,

(01:01:37):
agencies and brands
have been spending a lot of money on
advertising, right, on radio and on television.
If if we continue down this path and
radio and television
kind of
completely lose their audience or the vast majority
of their audience, then all these agencies and
brands have
all these

(01:01:57):
extra
budget
Maybe. That they're not gonna allocate to anybody.
Well
And
maybe that's the path that things are gonna
proceed down. Well, if it
I can wish in one hand and doo
doo in the other,
I just don't think that's gonna happen fast
enough because radio, to be honest with you,
has always been local anyway.

(01:02:19):
Mostly local. And the only time there was
national advertising was on syndicated, like,
Hannity and whoever else is on talk radio
these days. I don't even know.
So
I don't I don't know. It's it's the
same thing. It's the same story for the
last, for me at least,

(01:02:39):
fifteen years.
Yeah. Todd, I do,
wonder because really the only parties that have
the the the complete solution to this is
the big platforms.
Oh, yeah. So
We we we we didn't talk about this
aspect, but I believe that there's a lot
of
data,

(01:03:00):
data envy that's going on in the space.
Oh, of course. In the advertising space because
of what they see on YouTube. Of course.
Because guess what? YouTube knows that they know
Everything. They know yeah. They know and guess
what else they know? And they share everything
too. They know everything about every listener on
the platform.
They know what kind of toilet paper they
use. They know,

(01:03:21):
you know, what kind of deodorant they use.
They know what they use for laundry soap.
They know all of that information.
Yeah. And I think that the industry needs
to realize that that that
we will never
I don't think there's I mean, this is
an exhaustive list that that I was coming
into this episode with today,
but half of them feel like things that

(01:03:43):
that
we just can't accomplish. Right. It just it
just it's beyond the capability of the
of the podcasting market to do exactly what
pod what YouTube is doing today. Here It's
not possible. Here's what I'm
here's the vibe I'm getting.

(01:04:04):
They're very scared.
Who's they?
Advertisers,
podcast hosting
podcast hosting companies,
advertisers
Oh, yeah. The whole Advertisers.
The whole
ecosystem.
Well,
they're worried about the exact same thing that
I just said is that,

(01:04:25):
if radio and television fall off a cliff,
then where are they going?
They're gonna go to TikTok. Trust podcasting,
where else are they gonna go? They're gonna
go to TikTok or they're gonna go they're
gonna advertise on YouTube or wherever.
Well, yeah. That's kind of my bigger point.
Yeah.
The the whole market is shifting towards these

(01:04:46):
big proprietary platforms. Because they're big.
They're they're They're big.
They have user data. Yeah. And what these
buyers want? Yeah. And that's why they that's
why Google is in this in the middle
of an antitrust thing right now because they
have too much information.
Yep.
So I'm guessing is it a disadvantage here?
Oh. There's no question. Rob, we've been in

(01:05:07):
a disadvantage
from
from act oh, seventh. Told us that we
did. February.
We've been in a disadvantage from the beginning.
But, you know, I I think though
that there is
opportunity
that's not necessarily advertising related.

(01:05:29):
I think that,
Yeah.
Yeah. No. I There your time.
And and I don't know if you listened.
You probably should start listening. I know you
don't listen. You need to listen to the
podcasting two point o show. Mhmm. And there's
some you know, they had some good points
in there.
Here's the thing. We're never,

(01:05:50):
never
and I say that with capital n e
v e r. We are never gonna compete
with YouTube. Never.
That's fine. We're never gonna compete.
Well, some are gonna try. Right? I think
that these
Spotify is one that's going
to replicate as best they can, YouTube. Okay.
We're never gonna compete with YouTube or Spotify.

(01:06:12):
Let's put both of them in this in
the same bucket. I mean, I think that
iHeart's gonna wanna compete in this area. I
think that, SiriusXM is gonna wanna compete in
this area. A chance.
I I don't think they I think they
don't stand a chance.
Well, I think to some degree, most of
them are already doing it.
Oh, yeah. They're on YouTube. To some degree,

(01:06:32):
but just not to the level
of the YouTube envy that exists. Oh, there's
a huge huge amount of YouTube envy.
Right. I mean, I see it every day
with the work that I'm doing with trying
to do video too. And it's
it's
remarkable and podcasting just can't compete with it.
Why and the thing is so if we

(01:06:53):
can't compete with it,
I'm gonna quit worrying about it.
And I'm just gonna continue to focus
on what we can do
for those that wanna create audio
to make it the best experience possible.
Well, and we have
to realize that that
the people that really are gonna benefit from

(01:07:14):
a shift like this is gonna be the
top tier show? Absolutely.
For sure. The top They already have. The
top thousand shows. They already have.
That show that that boat sailed, Rob, ten
years ago.
Right. Because Yeah. Or more than no. That's
that boat sailed fifteen years ago even in
the podcasting space minus YouTube.
Because guess what? The advertisers

(01:07:36):
didn't give two licks
about smaller shows. It's again, here's the list.
Here's a list of 50 shows.
You you do all this work and you
go and and you and you got you
got a quarter of a million deal on
the line.
And then they they go in and they
looked at our that RFP over and they
go,
we'll take three of those 50.

(01:07:58):
And your quarter million deal goes down
to 25,000
and you're like, I don't it's not even
worth doing it.
It's not even worth doing the deal then
because it's more work than it's worth.
So
Yeah. Todd, it's almost like,
I was trying
to pull it out of both of you
earlier in the show about this this tension

(01:08:19):
that I'm feeling
around host reads and programmatic.
Yeah. And where the the programmatic is starting
to take the role of what would be
considered to be kind of like,
national buys on radio For sure.
Across all of the distribution and automated buy.
And then the the baked in

(01:08:41):
is like the
well, no. I guess the baked in would
be the national buys. The programmatic would be
more more equivalent to the I'm hearing national
buys on on programmatic. I'm hearing local buys.
I'm hearing a mix of everything. Right. Yeah.
So And and get and guess what? They're
not paying $20 for that.

(01:09:02):
Yeah. And that's kind of the the also
the undertow of getting all this data too.
I think it it may unlock budgets to
a certain degree, but in some ways these
are these are unlocking
blocks
to buys at the same time. Yeah. Because
the deeper the metrics go,
the the more reasons that a brand has

(01:09:23):
for not buying.
Well, what we're what we're seeing is that
I don't even think they're worried that much.
They have a bucket of money they have
to spend every quarter.
And and they just they put it on
program
a portion of unprogrammatic
and just runs because the buckets gotta get
sold. And it's,

(01:09:43):
you know Easy too. Yeah. It's easy. Like,
actually, once you set it up, the computer
does it. You don't even have to do
nothing. Yes. You set up your parameters and
it there's no real
yeah. There's probably some management of it. You
know, you're looking at it and but again
Yeah.
I'm gonna be doing an interview with Rocky

(01:10:03):
soon for my other show that we're doing
for special edition. We're gonna talk a lot
about a lot about this specific topic about
programmatic.
But, you know, why why do why would
a
why would
a advertising see, I've had a lot of
people tell me, oh, we'll work with small
shows. Yeah. A few.

(01:10:26):
A few small shows you'll work with. A
few.
Yeah. You know? But the majority of small
shows are and, again, I don't think here's
another thing too.
Do they really have a problem? Because
even if they had all the inventory in
the world,
would be willing to take it all.

(01:10:47):
50% of podcasters don't don't care about it
or they have a different you know, that's
another thing people don't look at. They have
different
different goals.
You know, some people as a financial advisor,
they wanna get
clients.
You you know, it's like, if if they
can create create a podcast and do a
little bit of advertising and it costs less

(01:11:08):
than,
a thousand dollars for the phone to ring,
they've made money. So
Yeah. You know, there's different models that people
are looking at. Plus, people are doing value
for value.
And, again,
there's only a few shows that do really,
really well with that.
And, again, I I think that
I hate to say it, but

(01:11:31):
gotta do the work.
And and, Todd, what's your gut,
around this whole concept? What's the future of
the whole concept of advertising like we've been
doing for the last
forty years. Is it
starting to shift more towards direct relationships?
I don't think consumers are very, I think

(01:11:52):
consumers are very smart
with their money.
You know, if you're getting ready to go
out and do a major purchase
Mhmm. You know, you're you're talking to friends,
people that own that product.
You're
you're doing your research online,
you know, especially when it comes to vehicles.

(01:12:13):
People are not even going into showrooms anymore.
They're buying their cars online, which to me
is a completely foreign process. So I think
when it comes to because I'm I'm in
the I I I'm in the hunt. I
wanna go I wanna go I wanna go
wrestle a deal. I wanna feel like I
got that extra thousand dollars out of that
salesman. Right? So it's it is I think
consumers are

(01:12:34):
are have lots of options now to look
stuff up. When we when, you know, when
it and it used to be you there
was not a lot of Internet activity before
the web.
How did you find out about a product?
Whether it was in the store, on the
shelf, or you saw it on TV.
Yeah. So so now,
you know, what what was a purchase I

(01:12:55):
made recently? I I I wanted a certain
shirt. I saw a certain shirt while I
was on Facebook.
And here's the funny part.
I I did a screenshot because I didn't
want to direct click, and I went to
my computer and I googled
the name of that shirt,
and guess what I did? I found it
online cheaper than it was being sold for

(01:13:15):
on Facebook. I thought,
uh-huh. People are so used to just clicking
and buying something now. They're not even shopping
the price. I shop the price and save,
like, $12.
So,
you know, it was, like, $29 or something.
It wasn't like it was but still I
save $12.
Yeah. I've heard, people in the industry talk

(01:13:36):
more about how shorts are increasingly being used
as a as a pitch platform for products.
Yeah. I haven't seen any of those.
Well, I think it's pretty big. I mean,
I see it on Instagram and on Oh,
I love it. TikTok occasionally. Yeah. I see
on TikTok.
Yeah. Yeah. We're we're a person who will
create a short, but that short is really,

(01:13:58):
offering the features and the benefits of a
particular branded product of some sort. Someone seems
to think I need a diesel heater.
Right. That's what I've been seeing on TikTok.
Maybe you do, Todd. You know? No. But
you just don't know it yet. Yeah. That's
true. I mean, you've talked into it. Right?
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
So I just wonder if the advertising models

(01:14:21):
are going to shift. So let let's say
this plays out the way I increasingly think
it might, which is that the industry can't
can't really
adapt to what these buyers want, and these
buyers budgets decline and they wind up buying
less. Right? Yeah.
The companies
decrease the amount of advertising that they're doing,

(01:14:41):
and maybe they shift that budget over to
other online marketing activities like working with influencers
to do short
short promo videos to,
you know, do sales. I mean, like affiliate
sales is another example of this. Right? Mhmm.
There's other ways of promoting products
than just running a thirty second or sixty
second, you know, pre produced

(01:15:03):
ad in a in a piece of content.
I'm not sure that
I just wonder if that model is kind
of fading
into oblivion,
over the next, you know, maybe the next
ten years or whatever, where it's going to
become kind of like old fashioned
to do that kind of advertising.
I don't know.
I mean, it just feels like that the

(01:15:23):
trends are not,
you know, and
we're the new media. Right? Podcasting is the
the new media. And if podcasting is not
able to conform
to how things used to be done with
television and radio
because all the buyers are used to buying
like that, then what's gonna happen?
They're gonna have to either change or

(01:15:47):
or the content creators are going to have
to be less reliant on it. Right.
So I'm just posing the question. I'm not
trying to say that there's doom and gloom
time for
advertising, but I just wonder if the trends
are starting to push us in a different
direction.
And it's hard to know how this is
gonna play out, especially when you add AI

(01:16:08):
onto the mix here. How's AI gonna change
all this too? Oh, yeah. How are you
gonna do brand? Course, you can have a
perfectly brand safe, show with an AI.
So, you know, the person's creating the robot.
Here's the funny thing.
So
once the YouTubes and Spotify's of world learn
how to program a bot
to produce news and sports and shows. They're

(01:16:30):
just gonna roll it out their own, and
they're gonna collect the advertising and
tell everyone else, go pack sand.
Yeah. Todd, did you, see that YouTube rolled
out a whole bunch of new AI features?
And
they've been talking about adding the ability
to generate,
AI videos inside of YouTube. Well, I'm sure

(01:16:52):
they're going to. And guess what they're gonna
do? They're gonna collect the advertising
off that revenue and won't have to pay
anyone
anything.
Well, no. No. I'm not talking about it's
gonna generate its own content, but they're giving
the tools to their their
their creators, the channel owner. So why how
how would you how would you even know
that that it wasn't YouTube doing this? I'm

(01:17:13):
playing devil's advocate. If I was YouTube, if
I was in a YouTube marketing, I'd be
like, hey. Let's use these AI tools. We
can put We don't have to pay anybody.
We can put five hundreds, 500 channels up,
and we can, you know, come up with
a whole line of content.
And guess what? Cut them loose. And then
guess what we do? We advertise.
We we step on the sales.

(01:17:33):
And guess what?
We're gonna make more money as Google because
Yeah. I think in the long run, that
could be what what happens here. But but
I do think that YouTube is gonna wanna
play off of the credibility,
and trust that's associated with human creators
until they don't have to. They have trust
with human creators?

(01:17:54):
No. No. I'm talking about the the consumption
side.
If if they can if YouTube can give
tools to human creators that will allow them
to create
content
that maybe is a little bit more authentic,
then that's probably plays into YouTube's advantage in
the short run. But in the long run,

(01:18:14):
as these AIs get better and they can
replicate
me, like, I can I could potentially
write a script
and upload it to YouTube and it it
knows me? It's
it's indexed to all my videos
and it would accurately
portray me in a in a video and
all I have to give it is a
script. I want to see that Rob. Today.

(01:18:36):
I want to see that I wanna see
that, Rob, and see if it if it
doesn't look like a
Well, I mean, I think it does.
It it probably would today,
but, you know, five years from now, three
years from now. Yeah. Yeah.
Is it gonna be different than that too?
And I think, you know, and then then
you throw in the ability to have

(01:18:58):
dynamic ads, dynamic visual ads.
I was talking I've talked to and worked
a little bit with a company that is
actually able to put a script
into your your server that will run
video ads in the background. So like if
you look at my,
my background here, like that box right there

(01:19:18):
Yeah. That's on my bookshelf. Yeah.
That that box could be replaced by a
digital video or
display ad. I can do that right here
right now if I wanted to. Same thing.
Right. Yeah. Right. So and then that would
be trafficked in the content as it's being
played. Mhmm.
So there may be other types of models

(01:19:40):
that are gonna come into play here as
we see technology get better.
Well
Yeah. To this extent,
I don't know where this where it's all
headed. I can only do what I can
do at this point to at least kinda
speculate.
You know, and I what do I have
to do? I have to serve my customers
the best I can. That's

(01:20:02):
you know, we had a
a meet Yeah. Basically doing office hours every
week at 04:30. It's open to anybody that
wants to show up. And,
the topic last week was our AI tool.
And, you know, got customers, a long time
customers with us and, like,
yeah. I saw that there. I didn't even
click on the button. Didn't realize it was
an AI tool and took them in and,

(01:20:22):
you know, just walk around two or three
things and
and explain the benefit. And sometimes it's just,
you know, you just gotta
you gotta get that one on one and,
you know, and people are busy.
Content podcasters are busy. They have lives. They
work.
You know? They're
you know? And they do their show because

(01:20:45):
what do they wanna do? They they wanna
have a fun show to do. They're not
worried about the
again, they're not worried about money. They're not
worried about reaching whose audience. They're having fun.
They're doing the show for them.
So I, you know, I think there's there's,
there's lots of room for other people do

(01:21:07):
whatever they want.
Doing it for the love of the of
of the effort and the passion of it.
But I don't think that the brands are
ever gonna come in and tell Todd and
Rob, hey. We want you guys to,
advertise Ford. I don't think it's gonna happen.
Why would they?

(01:21:29):
I I Yeah.
What would they get out of it. Right?
Well,
I drive a Ford already, so do I
need to advertise Ford?
I'm pissed that they're quitting building a model,
so I would be more bitching about it,
you know, because they're they're gonna quit making
the Edge, and that's the vehicle I like

(01:21:49):
from Ford. So, you know, when I get
ready to trade my vehicle whenever that may
be, I'll probably run this one to the
becomes a coast to Canarly.
Coast down one hill and Canarly get up
the next. We'll have to see what what
what else is out there.
But
where I live now, I'm definitely not buying
electric vehicle. My god.
Yeah. I'm

(01:22:10):
I'm kind of scared to say what kind
of electric vehicle I have. Oh, don't be
scared. We know you have a Tesla. You've
talked about it many times. I have. Yeah.
It is definitely a weird time for that
Tesla brand. Yeah. You know, the conservatives are
buying the ones the liberals are not, so
don't worry.
Well, it's the swastika is being being painted
on Teslas. This is what,

(01:22:32):
what's going on. Well, that's what you got
your in car camera for. Right? Don't you
guys have a fancy camera that records everything?
It's called century mode. Yes. Yes.
Yeah. So I have century mode on my
vehicle too. It's in a garage.
Yeah. Well, mine's in the garage too. Yeah.
With with a with a with a sign
on the door that,

(01:22:52):
you enter, you risk,
pew pew, you know? So Right. Bang. Bang.
Pow pow. Right?
Yeah.
So, so anyway,
this whole conversation with Steve is, is, is
a good one to have, but I also
wonder, you know, if it's really gonna

(01:23:13):
happen
even close to what they would like it
to happen. I'm not exactly sure how how
we're actually even gonna get Everyone's controlling their
sandbox.
Right. And they have revenue on the line.
They have employees to feed. They are not
going to
anything disrupts
and cause revenue to go in reverse on

(01:23:34):
the on the small chance
on the small chance
that doing this gets the big media buyers
say, oh, we gotta buy podcasting now. It
does Or
or doing any of it that causes
costs to increase.
Right. That's the other end of the spectrum
on this too. And and what's what's the
competitive impact that Right. Comes from doing doing

(01:23:57):
some of these things. Yeah.
Yeah. That's it's such a tough thing.
Yeah. I Just
you know, that's why I'm so glad not
to be in the advertising business right now.
I have to worry about one thing.
You know? I'd like to have an idea.
I mean,

(01:24:17):
then I have it figured out and then
I have an understanding of where where it's
going and how it's moving. I mean,
I have a good Right. Everything
is beautiful. That's what they
say. Until it's not.
Well, until they lay people off. I thought
there were some layoffs today. Someone got some
somebody laid somebody off. I thought I saw

(01:24:39):
that in pod news.
I'm sure that's true. Yeah. So someone oh,
it wasn't pod news. It was Podcast News
Daily.
Let's see here. Who got who got whacked?
New round of staff cuss at WNYC,
parent New York Public Radio, seven percent of
its work,
force was laid off.

(01:25:02):
Wow.
21 positions. So it wasn't a large number,
but still 21 people affected.
So,
yeah, I think that's gonna probably continue
to some degree.
And I did wanna talk about another topic
too, and I posted something.
I think it was on LinkedIn about this
topic too,

(01:25:23):
around,
you know, this concept of audio first content
versus video first
content. And,
you know,
it is hard to,
to produce
each one of those
to be in the other
format,
and still
keep keep the viewer,

(01:25:45):
and watching
experience,
the same.
So
and so what I'm saying is is that
most content creators
go into creating content either as audio first
creators
and then they add video maybe. Yeah. Or
they go into it as a video first
creator and then maybe they add audio. Yeah.
Right?
So

(01:26:06):
can you do we ever see a time
when somebody goes into this with an audio
and video
equal approach? Well, I And I guess what's
the path for that? I think I've been
doing that here for years.
Yeah. Well, I mean, this show's an example
of of a show that we've done in
a converged

(01:26:27):
stretch. You know, and sometimes we goof up
and show something and don't explain it. So
we're not immune to
leaving the listener behind.
Right.
You know, and I've I caught myself the
other night on Keaton Central saying something, and
I was I was basically talking about this.
It was weird.

(01:26:48):
And it just it let me see if
I can find it here. It was protoclon.
And,
yeah. And it was this robot that looked
eerily like remember that exhibit they had where
they use, real human cadavers and
all that was left was the muscle structure.
It kinda looked like that, but a robot.
And I said, Jesus. Put some pants on.

(01:27:10):
You know? It it was Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It looks so
weird.
I mean, so foreign. It it could it
could have landed
from outer space and no one and I'm
like,
let's humanize this thing a little bit because
it was just creepy.
And I'm thinking if I
Yeah. And actually, you
reminded me of the robots that were portrayed

(01:27:32):
in that,
I think the HBO series,
I I think,
Westworld?
Yeah. Yeah.
Were they Those It was like a white
white skeleton robot. Yeah. Those weren't creepy. Those
were, you know, those were pretty interesting, you
know, that show. This what I saw online
let me see if I can find it

(01:27:52):
here. So but I was just like, who
is their marketing person
that Yeah. I was it's almost like they
needed to layer on some sort of a
skin on this. Yeah. So so let me
let me show let me show you this
thing. Five, six.
Okay. So here's what it looks This is
a direct here's what it looks like, Rob.
Yeah. I know. Yeah. So I you know,

(01:28:12):
and and so I'm you know, what I'm
doing during my show is I'm like, oh
my god. This thing is and I'm, you
know, I'm trying to look tell her about
how weird it is, and then I'm remembering,
oh, yeah. The the listening audience can't see
this thing. See it. I said, it's in
the show notes. It'll be first thing, and
then when you gotta go look at this
thing, and
then I'm jokingly put some pants on, you

(01:28:34):
know, because, you know, look at this thing.
You know, is that is that something you
want to come take your do your dishes
in your house, Rob?
I I I don't think so. Right? It
needs some,
some some skin or something. It needs a
Bermuda short and,
you know, a t shirt, you know, at
least.
You know? And and don't make the head
look like it's something out of a UFO

(01:28:55):
film. You know? Yeah. It just
I just like
engine it's geeks that are making these things.
So Oh, this would be real cool. You
know? And It works. Yeah. It works. But,
you know,
I see that thing coming up the that
thing's coming up the stairs at night. It's
gonna get the 12 gauge shotgun blast. You

(01:29:15):
know?
There goes that $25,000.
Or 2,500,000.0
or whatever it is. Yeah. Right. Right.
I don't know. So what you know, we
had a few comments today in YouTube. Your
audience even
your audience can e
your audience even so can roll up the
numbers
and can influence

(01:29:36):
their wish to listen. Yep.
That was from BD Bubble earlier.
Mhmm. So
and I don't know. I'm I guess today,
I'm just
in the I don't know mode.
I think
But I can tell you, I subscribed to
the chat GPT pro version.

(01:29:58):
Oh, you did? For one month as a
test.
So have you seen a big difference?
Well, they've rolled out o one for
people to use now
in the $20 plan. You get 10 uses
of it a month, and I understand why
it's only 10 uses. I've
I played around with it for a couple
hours yesterday

(01:30:19):
Mhmm. In the reasoning model for the pro
version, o one pro.
And
I did a head head to head head
to head comparison,
About well, it's it's a lot better.
A lot better. But you have to know
how to use this thing, and you're you're

(01:30:40):
gonna use your 10 uses up just learning
how to use it.
Yeah. So how would you say it's it
it's better? Alright. So as an example, what
I did was,
I was having to help me write a
script.
And I said I want I'm this is
who's
basically, I wrote what
we wanted to build the script for,

(01:31:01):
and I said, is this all you need?
And it came back and asked me 20
questions.
It asked me, who's gonna be in it?
What setting?
What camera angle. It just went through and
asked me a whole bunch of questions.
And I thought, oh, this is weird. I
just need a script. And then
we and, again, I probably worked on this

(01:31:22):
prompt and the answering its questions for twenty,
twenty five minutes.
But when I hit the final solution,
it kicked me out
a script that I still had to edit.
I probably spent
twenty five, maybe another thirty minutes on editing
it. But I have a script that if

(01:31:44):
I would had to have done
on my own
from scratch,
I I would expect it would have taken
me eight hours to write that script.
Five to eight minutes
of content.
And
what I'm worried now is it just gonna

(01:32:05):
make us too stupid or we're gonna end
up not have any creative thoughts left.
But I definitely got super creative in
so then I started understanding
how this thing worked.
And then I did some other stuff, and
I said, oh, yeah. This is where the
true value is. But, again, it's a language
model.
When I've seen it,

(01:32:25):
yet I've used the the GROC three Yeah.
Also, and I've used the chat GPT four.
And I've seen it increasingly,
push towards
before it gives you an answer, it will
actually
generate
a a prompt for you
to actually use. Or to improve.

(01:32:45):
Yeah. Or to improve or add elements to
it and then cut and paste that out,
put it into a new query, and then
fill in
the the prompt blanks. If I was a
copywriter, I would be very worried about my
career.
So, anyway, we're we're out of time, and
I have a hard I got a I
got a hard call coming in
Okay. In a few minutes. But,

(01:33:07):
what do you guys think?
We're gonna have Adobe on next week.
Mhmm. And, I'll be in a different location
no longer here in the PlayShow Studios. I'll
be back in The Philippines. PlayShow Studios. Yeah.
Yeah.
And, on, OBS, we'll be, doing the show
on OBS.
So So would you be back for

(01:33:30):
a conference or are you gonna stay until
the I am not I'm sending other team
members to Podcast Movement. To Chicago. To Chicago.
Yeah. I'm not going to Chicago. So
but I will be back in time for
London, though.
Oh, London. Right? Yeah. That's in, April. Right?
That's in May. Yep. In May. Second second
or third week of May, something like that.

(01:33:51):
Okay. Anyway, todd@blueberry.comatgeeknews
on x@geeknewsatgeeknews.chat
on
Mastodon.
Okay. Yeah. Rob?
I'm on x,
at Rob Greenlee, like I've been on since
02/2007
and also on on YouTube at,

(01:34:14):
Rob Greenlee and,
also on on Rumble as well. So I'm
over there to some degree trying to see
what's going on with that platform as well.
I know we're we're streaming live to that
platform, I I believe now. Yep. We are.
It's awesome. And of course
Go ahead.
Oh, and then Facebook,

(01:34:36):
LinkedIn,
all of the
all of the big social platforms,
you can easily find me over there. And
then
robgreenley.com.
It's always a good place. So we are
Todd and Rob. We are the host of
the New Media Show.
We've been podcasting for over twenty years, and
we try to cover all the latest stuff
going on in podcasting.

(01:34:56):
And,
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(01:35:16):
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