September 2, 2022

We Welcome Our Newest Board Member

What We're Into 

• Register for the Multilingual Podcasters Meetup happening on September 15 at 6pm ET. Data from Edison Research’s Latino Podcast Listener Report 2022 will be broken down by a group including our CEO Juleyka Lantigua and Libsyn's Elsie Escobar. Attendees will get the opportunity to share their thoughts on the report and discuss what the data means for the industry. 
• Podcasts are coming to Twitter! Within the Twitter’s Spaces tab, users will now receive personalized suggestions for podcasts—which they can “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to tailor suggestions to their interests. Relatedly, Twitter found 45% of its U.S. users also listen to podcast monthly, revealing an exciting opportunity to grow your audience on the platform.
• A Canadian podcast newsletter launches next week. Kattie Laur’s Pod the North, coming September 6, will include commentary on the Canadian podcast ecosystem, feature indie and Indigenous podcasts, interview Canadian podcasters, and share resources for creators. Subscribe here.
• We will be at Podcast Day 24 on October 4 in New York City! Our founder, Juleyka Lantigua, will be delivering a talk on ethics in podcasting. This annual event brings together broadcasters, publishers, platforms, and technology companies in podcasting. Join us! Register for one of the three conferences happening in London, New York, and Sydney.
• Acast is hosting “Celebrating Asian Voices” on September 14, 2-3pm ET, online. The event centers a discussion among Asian creators, where they will “discuss their own individual journeys, breakdown challenges faced and celebrate success stories.” This event is the first in Acast’s new schedule of their Aclass events for underrepresented creators in podcasting. Read the announcement on Podnews.

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Overheard on Podcasting, Seriously Live 

• Podcasting provides a public venue to showcase the skills and offerings that people otherwise experience from you in more private settings. For Stevon, being a psychotherapist means a lot of his talent and skills are displayed to patients 1-on-1 behind closed doors, so podcasting, he says, "is an opportunity to provide another touchpoint for people to assess [his] skills and offerings." Clearly, Stevon has been assessed well: he has gained new clients from his podcast audience!
• Podcasting opens doors for other opportunities to continue to spread your message. Stevon is consistent about his main goal of reducing the negative impacts that imposter syndrome has on people's lives. By making that clear and succinct in the show, his podcast has attracted more speaking opportunities which allow him to expand his messages to bigger audiences—beyond his private practice and beyond the podcast. Additionally, Stevon offers, finding ways to craft your message to new audiences and new formats pushes you to "think outside the box."
• People can see you, your brand, or your industry in a new light. Stevon shared that podcasting allows people to see him, a therapist, in a "less intense" and less commitment-oriented space. Listeners do not have to offer anything about themselves to receive advice they might really need to hear, and so he gets to impact listeners by doing his job in a different way than his patients experience. Reflect: how might people understand you, your work, or your industry differently through a podcast?

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Thanks for the Love 

• Thank you to Podnews and Insider Radio for highlighting the news of our newest board member!