Some members of the Blubrry team provided insight into what they believe will happen in the podcasting space in 2024. Todd, Mike and MacKenzie share their own thoughts and hopes (and some unfortunate expectations as well) in today’s episode of Podcast Insider, giving listeners a thorough assessment of the current podcasting landscape.

Happy New Year, we’re happy you’re here.

• Video will continue to advance
  
• AI is going to change everything
  
• Real voices will be more important than ever
  

• Without getting too political, 2024 is a major election year in the US; I imagine we’ll see an increase in political commentary shows. Perhaps continued shows or even new shows based on ongoing relations in the Middle East and Ukraine, Congo, Sudan, etc.
  
• AI releases from numerous platforms and major increase in usage among creators
  
• Continued accessibility improvements
  
• Apple Podcasts – creator program for non subscription based shows
  

• Soundcloud will shut down (Same every year and they keep going)
  
• YouTube will fail at “podcasting,” and Google will announce something else by the end of the year.
  
• AI will become a bigger deal in podcasting this year.
  
• I think more and more podcast apps/platforms will adopt some of the Podcasting 2.0 features.
  
• Joe Rogan will renew his contract with Spotify (unfortunately)
  
• I will have as my New Year’s Resolution to be less opinionated about “podcasting’. Podcasting has always had no rules! I just have to remember, even if I don’t think someone is doing it the correct way, it’s not my place to correct them. I will offer my advice, but leave it at that