We are back after a nice end of year break… it felt really good to step away from the mics and enjoy everything that December brings for celebrating what we have and what we are looking forward to! 

Statistics mentioned in this show:

• There are currently around 3 to 4 million podcasts out there, according to ListenNotes.
• According to Amplifi and Podnews, 44% of the podcasts have less than 3 episodes! Only 720k podcasts have more than 10 episodes….out of those 720k podcasts, only 156k are releasing a weekly episode.
• According to ListenNotes, there were nearly 197,000 new podcasts released in 2018. The next year, that figure jumped to 316,000. The growth seemed quite significant in 2019, but 2020 brought more than 1,000,000 new podcast shows(!), a record number which more than tripled the previous year.
• 75% of all podcasters discontinue their show within 12 months of starting
• Lots of statistics can be found here: https://podcastpage.io/podcast-statistics/

If you are wondering if you should start your own podcast, here is a link to a presentation I did for alumni of the University of Tennessee: https://youtu.be/3bziM0Dnxwg

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