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Today Dave is join by guest co-host Marc Ronick from iRonick Media, and the founder of the Empowered Podcasting Conference. They talk about a post from Hall of Fame Podcaster and Head of Community at Captivate Elise Escobar stating that the gold rush to video may be a passing fad.
Elsie Escobar's Article
https://www.multimodalee.com/a-prediction-within-a-prediction-the-video-hype-the-illusion-of-scale-and-the-return-to-sustainable-podcasting/
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00:00 Introduction
00:31 Introducing Mark Ronick https://ironickmedia.com/
01:23 Sponsor: PodcastBranding.co https://www.podcastbranding.co
02:43 Sponsor: Based on a True Story Podcast https://www.basedonatrustoypodcast.com
04:54 Is Video a Fad?
26:00 Video won't die, but the hype is from platforms
29:00 Do your audience want video?
30:10 Mark's video growth and FlightCast
34:20 Background music and sound effects
35:00 AI in podcasting and Amazon Alexa's new feature
36:00 The first AI-generated podcast
37:20 Amazon Alexa's AI podcast feature
41:10 Dave's bike ride lesson for podcasters
44:10 Backing music opinions
46:00 Overusing sound effects
48:10 Stop measuring downloads
49:40 Music over the entire podcast
50:50 Awesome supporters and sponsors https://www.askthepodcastcoach.com/awesome
51:40 Empowered Podcasting Conference https://empoweredpodcasting.com/
53:20 Podcast hot seat and pod page
54:40 Wheel of names and trivia
56:00 Subscription fees and money tips
57:40 AMP alliance for podcast measurement
01:01:00 Big money and the indie divide
01:05:10 Standardization and RSS vs. HLS
01:07:00 Advertising driving the standards
01:08:40 Independent podcaster standardization needed
01:10:10 FlightCast analytics and HLS
01:11:40 Secret meetings and the future of RSS
01:13:30 Patreon, Supercast, and Substack
01:18:00 Splitting audience with multiple hosts
01:19:30 Patreon kicking people off
01:20:20 Supercast vs. Patreon pricing
01:21:20 Patreon video shorts feature
01:22:00 Super chat and Janae
01:22:50 Fountain and Bitcoin podcasting
01:24:40 Stephanie Graham on Substack issues
01:25:40 Lucy Werner's Substack mistake
01:26:30 Podcast trivia for conference tickets
01:28:00 Rich Graham wins a ticket
01:29:10 Second trivia question: companies not in AMP
01:30:10 Rich gives his ticket to Dan
01:31:10 Todd wins with Spreaker answer
01:32:10 Mark's Ironic Media and closing
