Pondering The Pandemic’s Indelible Mark On Podcasting [PPS3E55D]

Podcast Pontifications

Guest host: Mark Steadman of the podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics company Podiant.

The pandemic is once again top of mind for Mark Steadman, as at the time of this recording, his home country was about to go on lockdown—for the second time. That’s given him lots of time to think about… well, time. Specifically, the way we podcasters think about and use time differently now in the pandemic than we did before.

Perhaps you were like Mark, staying well ahead so you didn’t find yourself scrambling for content each time you went to publish. But then came the pandemic, and the only thing you could think about was the pandemic, and you found your bank of episodes dwindle to nothing.

Or maybe you found yourself questioning why a guest would even bother to come on our show and talk about not-all-that-important of things, so you decide to launch a brand new show that felt more right.

Perhaps you found that the quest for cash—donations, merchandise, or advertising—felt weird. Or maybe wrong. Did you change any of those aspects?

Moving forward in time, what’s your outlook for the next 18 months or so? How will you incorporate the realities of living in and perhaps (if we’re lucky) transitioning out of the pandemic into your podcasting? Will we start to see familiar patterns emerge in a year or so?

And what will all of this we’ve been through and will soon go through mean to us and our podcasting over the next 5-10 years? Will what we think of as “podcasting” change drastically? And how much of that change can be attributed to the pandemic? Will we change how we book or work with guests remotely, or will we hunger for in-person connections, so that remote interviews are the exception rather than the rule?

And then way out in the future, like 10-20 years from now, how will the podcasts and episodes we made be a reflection on past times? Will it be a record of what we went through, or an escape from it? Will we have created a piece of pandemic-time art that carries relevance to that time period? Or will we have made something that continues to live in its own right, separate from, and barely acknowledging the pandemic?

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