The Podcast Accelerator: How to Grow Your Podcast · Mark Asquith

Podcast Movement 2024 Survival Guide - In & Around Podcasting

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Spotify’s arrival changed Podcast Movement from a creator meetup into something like a trade show.

1. The Podcast Accelerator: How to Grow Your Podcast episode focuses on Podcast Movement 2024 and how to survive it as a creator or industry attendee. 2. Mark is the host, MD and co-founder of Captivate.fm, and Danny Brown is the co-host who attended Podcast Movement last year and helps frame the practical advice. 3. The episode asks what Podcast Movement is for in 2024, and answers that it is still a creator event even as industry brands and keynote names have grown. 4. Mark says he first went to Podcast Movement in 2015 in Fort Worth, after missing the year-one Kickstarter by about two weeks. 5. He compares that early era with NMX in Las Vegas and New Media Europe, describing how small the podcasting event circuit felt at the time. 6. Danny says last year was his first Podcast Movement, and he describes it as a solid show with a few areas that could improve. 7. Mark argues that Podcast Movement now sits alongside two events, Podcast Movement and Podcast Movement Evolutions, with different seasonal roles for creators and industry people. 8. He names the growth of booth presence by Spotify, Amazon Music, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Discovery as evidence that podcasting has scaled up. 9. Mark says that when he and his team first exhibited, they turned up with a suitcase full of T-shirts and gave away about 400 of them. 10. He links those T-shirts to the early Podcast Websites booth and to the idea that small teams can still make an impact at a large event. 11. Mark says the event still feels like a creator-first space because the people coming to the Captivate booth are indie podcasters, business podcasters, and nonprofits. 12. He recommends going to sessions that feel more industry because seeing the larger market can help creators feel like part of something bigger. 13. Danny says the creator-led talks and breakout sessions are where much of the value sits for indie podcasters. 14. Mark singles out celebrity interview sessions as useful even for non-celebrity interview shows because they teach timing, space, and redirection. 15. He says AI topics are still prevalent, but he prefers to keep creators aware of them rather than drown in them. 16. Mark also recommends building a framework plan with must-do talks, optional sessions, and a route through the exhibit hall. 17. He says the best networking often happens when people are tired, off-schedule, or in hallway conversations rather than in formal sessions. 18. Danny agrees and says downloading the app and checking the floor plan helped him decide where to spend his time last year. 19. People who like creator networking, exhibit-hall browsing, and podcast-industry context would likely get the most from this episode. 20. People wanting a tightly edited keynote recap or a short news update will probably skip it.

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A practical guide for podcasters who want useful sessions and less noise.

This episode treats Podcast Movement 2024 as a working plan rather than a highlight reel. It walks through the schedule, speaks plainly to first time and returning attendees, and keeps coming back to one useful question: what should listeners bring home from a session?

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Plan Podcast Movement 2024 without winging your schedule.

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