The Content Crowd

Why 85% of Podcasts Are Already Dead | Ep. 28


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Most marketers are told to pick a lane. Adam Sockel has built a career doing the opposite, and the results speak for themselves. That is the mindset Trevor Grimes unpacks with Adam Sockel, VP of Marketing at Share Your Genius, a content agency that turns a single podcast recording into a full content engine for B2B brands.

ㅤ Adam opens up about the reality of podcasting that most people get wrong. He shares that of the 4.9 million podcasts in existence, only 15% ever make it past nine episodes, meaning the bar to stand out is far lower than the noise would suggest. The opportunity is hiding in plain sight, and most brands are too intimidated to take it.

ㅤ This conversation covers the full lifecycle of content strategy. Adam breaks down why YouTube has overtaken Spotify and Apple as the number one podcast discovery platform, how AI tools can get your content 75% of the way there without replacing the human who takes it the rest of the way, and why the moment you are exhausted saying something is exactly when your audience is just starting to hear it. It is a blueprint for building a content operation that compounds over time, not just one that looks good for a quarter.

About Adam Sockel Adam Sockel is the VP of Marketing at Share Your Genius, a video-first content agency specializing in podcast production, executive thought leadership, and full-funnel content strategy for B2B brands. With a background in brand and content strategy, Adam helps companies transform their recordings into newsletters, blogs, short-form video, and pillar reports — turning a single show into an always-on content engine. He is also a decade-long podcast host, a dedicated runner, a vegetarian lasagna enthusiast, and a self-described yapper.

What We Cover

  1. The 85% Opportunity: Why the podcasting landscape is far less crowded than it feels, and how showing up consistently puts you ahead of the vast majority of competitors before you even hit publish.
  2. YouTube as the Discovery Engine: How YouTube surpassed Spotify and Apple as the number one place people find new podcasts — and why brands that ignore video are leaving their most valuable discovery channel on the table.
  3. The Content Multiplication Framework: How Share Your Genius transforms a single podcast recording into written thought leadership, short-form clips, newsletters, and pillar reports that reach every corner of your ICP.
  4. AI as a 75% Solution: The right way to use AI clipping and writing tools — not as a replacement for human judgment, but as a starting point that a skilled content person finishes.
  5. Consistency as a Habit, Not a Grind: Why posting 3–5 short-form videos per week from content you have already recorded is more sustainable than it sounds, and how to batch and schedule your way into making it stick.
  6. Content About Content is the Enemy: Adam's hill-to-die-on take on why LinkedIn meta-commentary — "this is dead," "I can tell this was written by AI" — is the most boring and counterproductive thing a creator can do.

Resources Mentioned

  1. Share Your Genius
  2. Wait For It — The Annual State of Podcasting Episode

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The Content CrowdBy Trevor Grimes