What 5,000 Podcast Listeners Just Told Us About Indie Show Growth

Podcast: Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators · The Podmaster (Neal Veglio)

Opublikowano: 2026-07-07

New research from Signal Hill Insights, presented by Tom Webster at Sounds Profitable, surveyed over 5,000 podcast listeners — and the findings are uncomfortable for most indie podcasters to hear. Probably the most uncomfortable for me to hear, considering they contradict everything I've ever told people around podcast growth. But, as with all things, this research is not gospel. It's, as usual, a soupçon of insight into a complex and wide challenge. It challenges what our audio is, what our newsletter does and why our video clips should be. So listen as I break down the Podcast Atlas findings and what the...