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371: Lucas Dickey: How Deepcast is Revolutionizing Podcast Discovery

June 6, 2025·1 hr 19 min·5 clips

Harry starts by saying he almost went to law school and that he is drawn to complex subjects like Amicus, data exploitation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other areas where technology can help make sense of difficult problems. That sets up a conversation with Lucas Dickey about podcasting, discovery, and the broader challenge of surfacing things that are hard to find. Lucas traces a career path that moved through media, product thinking, and monetization. He describes building a subscription radio station to compete with Pandora, then explains how he combined the Echo Nest with Seven Digital to launch it. He also connects that experience to recommendation systems and the idea of using data to shape what people hear next. The discussion then shifts to his time at Thinknear, which was acquired by Telenav, and into ad tech. Lucas explains how geolocation and historical geolocation were used to infer intent, why early mobile advertising felt like the wild west, and how much he learned about monetization from both the buy side and the sell side. He frames advertising as a system for creating opportunities with useful information, whether psychographic, demographic, historical, or behavioral. By the end, Lucas points listeners to Deepcast.fm for discovery, Deepcast Pro for creator automation and post-production, Podsite.fm, and SoundStrategy.fm.

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A practical look at podcast discovery, data, and the business logic behind audio products.

Podcast Junkies episode 371 brings Lucas Dickey into a conversation about podcast discovery as a practical problem, one shaped by data rather than theory.

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Hear how a podcasting founder connects recommendation tech, ad tech, and creator tools into one career path.

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