Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 190, published January 8, 2018.
Happy new year, everyone! Let me begin by saying something that’s extremely typical: I spent a good deal of the holiday season either thinking about work or actually working. Which is to say, I totally vibe with what Anne Helen Petersen very succinctly coined as “millennial burnout.”
Anyway, glad to have you here. Let’s get to it.
2019 scene setting. Last year was a strange and busy one in podcast-land, between the shakeups and the bubble talk and the mergers/acquisitions and launches on launches on launches. And from the looks of it, the next year will likely prove equally peculiar. Will podcast audiences and advertising revenue continue to grow? Will non-advertising business models take firm root across the ecosystem? Will Apple still define podcasting by the end of the year? Worth considering, as well, that this community is not immune to the world outside: Will or will…
