Leo Laporte: Don’t Make Mistakes of Old Media

Leo Laporte, hailed as the Podcaster of the Year, gave a short keynote this morning. Some points he made:

  • We should look at using another name besides podcast to call what we do. Tying our name with a brand has been one of the stumbling blocks for podcasting.
  • We need to build a consortium that unites the podcasting community to address issues from a united front.
  • Podcast monetization is decided not by audience size, but the relationship we have with that audience. We need to work with agencies and advertisers that understand this.

Most importantly, Leo reminded us that podcasting isn’t radio, it isn’t TV. We will only succeed if we treat the monetization of podcasting differently. We should be careful not to copy the mistakes of past media.

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