Podcasting Is The New Kind Of Influence
Acast, the podcast hosting company, released Podcast Pulse 2025 with some remarkable findings.
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Influencers For The Business
Everyone knows there's a market for influencers in the B2C market, but there's a growing trend of B2B influencing going on now — especially on LinkedIn
Are Websites Still Relevant?
With artificial intelligence and social media are websites still relevant?
Cross-Medium Branding
In today's marketplace just having one avenue of outreach isn't enough you need to be where the people you're trying to get in front of are hanging out.
Your Personal Brand Is More Important Than Ever
With the job market in a strange state, it's important to have a personal brand.
Podcasting Is Where Most People Get Their News.
More than 40% of people surveyed say they get their news from podcasts.
AI And The Future Of Publishing
Should publishers block AI bots from stealing content and traffic? Is there an upside?
The Podcasting Industrial Complex Is Maturing
Podcasting is no longer a scrappy little industry of hobbyists, it's gone mainstream and is evolving.
The RSL Collective Aims To Make AI Scraping Pay
Getting artificial intelligence companies to pay for access to content seems reasonable. The RSL Collective hopes to pave the way.
September Premium Subscriber Drive
I'm not a huge fan of asking for support but...
Should AI Have Legal Rights?
Some say yes. Others, not surprisingly, say Hell NO! As for me, I'm not sure. On one hand it could be a dangerous slope, but on the other hand...
Google At WordCamp US Says They Are In Favor Of The Open Web
Google's Danny Sullivan was at WordCamp US in Portland, Oregon this past week and said Google needs the open web. Of course it does. So it can feed its Artificial Intelligence System. Let's not forget that.
Podcasting
YouTube Is Important To The Podcast Industry, But Isn't Everything
YouTube is a great place to watch podcasts that are put out as podcasts in audio only on the feeds. But YouTube isn't podcasting and not all podcasts need to be video.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT 5 Was Panned. But I Thought It Was Pretty Good.
Widely panned as a flop. ChatGPT 5 is the victim of being over hyped. And some people not realizing that ChatGPT shouldn't be your BFF.
Google Is Lying To Us!
In a recent retort to critics, Google has gotten defensive about its AI Search.
Advertising
The Thing About Sydney Sweeney & American Eagle
The thing about the Sydney Sweeney Jeans advert did exactly what American Eagle wanted. A response.
Artificial Intelligence
With AI Overviews, Write Good Content
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. Getting found and cited in the AI overviews has become a goal for most companies. How do you do this? Write good quality content.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Artificial Intelligence Will Now Call Businesses For People
For someone like me, who hates calling businesses on the phone this is great. But there are nuances that will probably get missed at the start.
Content Marketing
Pay-Per-Crawl Through Cloudflare Is Intriguing
Having artificial intelligence crawlers pay a toll to read and digest your content online is an intriguing proposal and Cloudflare is doing it.
Artificial Intelligence
How To Influence The AI Generative Engines
Famed SEO Lily Ray has documented the most gullible Artificial Intelligence models. It's worthy of an award, if you ask me.
Newsletter
Newsletters... The Democratization Of Media? Or Just The New Hotness.
It seems as though many professional journalists are leaving legacy media, by choice or otherwise, and turning to doing news their own way via the newsletter.
Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Here To Stay... How Do We Use It For Our Benefit?
AI isn't going anywhere. If anything it's getting more and more prevalent in our daily lives.
YouTube
YouTube Doesn't Dominate Podcasting!
In fact no single app or platform dominates in North America or for that matter across the globe.
Fediverse/Open Web
The Decentralized Web Is Growing And Evolving
Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, etc. The decentralized web is growing and there are now services that mirror big tech and gives people options for connecting.