Healing Our Marriage

A study has shown the results of 1700 new podcasters, and 41% saw their new podcast as an opportunity for additional income, with 29% of those wanting to be their main source of income. There are people who will charge you THOUSANDS of dollars (in three easy payments) who will GUARANTEE a top spot in podcasts apps. They quote their listennotes stats (even when they know they are bogus, see video 1 and video 2) and promote affiliate products - not because they are good - but because they have the highest commission.  I'm not them. Today I reveal the truth - even if it is not what you want to hear.  So The Plan is to Start a Podcast and Get Advertisers? Less than 10% of podcasters get the number of downloads per episode after 30 days to get a host ready from a "big sponsor." source Programmatic ads have a CPM that may be  around $12 CPM (cost per thousand downloads) source The median number of podcasters is around 150 (per libsyn)and the average is around 1500. The median on Buzzsprout is 30.  The aver CPM for