Podcast Success Quotes

My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.

One of the reasons why 'Here's The Thing', Alec Baldwin's series of podcasts with 'artists, policymakers and performers', is so good is because he's a big name, so the guests have to deliver.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself.

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.

Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.