A new podcast sponsorship fund will deliver one-time payments between $250 and $5,000 to up to 100 creators. According to Aria Bracci of Hot Pod, the new Podca$h program was launched by two companies, the audio platform Racket and financial software Stir. Applications will be open to US-podcasters until March 4.
“In podcasting, the rich tend to get richer,” said Racket founder and CEO Austin Petersmith. “We wanted to limit this campaign to people who have yet to make significant revenue for their podcasts. We also didn’t want to exclude those who have been at this for a while and are making, say, a few hundred dollars a month.”
Podca$h is a sponsorship program, “not a scholarship,” Bracci notes. (Funded creators will be asked to include an ad read for the companies on their eventual shows.) A panel of judges determining the recipients includes Jason Calacanis (This Week in Startups) and PM’s President, our own Dan Franks. Best of luck, friends.
Is this level of podcast listener enthusiasm sustainable? “The data indicates a hard yes,” explains Caila Litman in Sounds Profitable. The veteran producer and strategist sifted through twenty-five industry podcast studies from 2021, coming away with answers for marketers, companies, and future-focused creators.
“I know that one or two strong data points have the power to quickly convey even the most complex stories,” Litman writes. For example, feedback from 2,000 monthly listeners. She breaks down Acast’s 67-page US Podcast Listening Landscape Study into five bullet points (including why the numbers matter).
“Record-high listener enthusiasm” may be here to stay: “The future of audience engagement in audio will be about appealing to an emerging generation of power listeners — who are more diverse but just as aspirational as the OG audience.” Side note: This is the most entertaining data article you’ll read all week.
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