Top 11 Podcasts Collected from Publishers!✅
+Short email, short round up, top 5 and just added
Hey Poddy People,
It’s Christmas weekend and just like that, it’s the end of the year. I want more time! Regardless, I’m pumped for 2024. There haven’t been many changes or updates on Great Pods, but that will change in the 1st quarter of ‘24.
Let’s GOOOO!
The Round-Up
Fiction Podcast Critic, Kev from Tea In The Sahara, started his own podcast around his fiction podcast reviews. Check it out.
Ashley Carmen writes that despite a downturn in the podcast industry, we may look to co-op spaces to be successful like Normal Gossip from the Defector. Read more here.
Podcast to TV: Lionsgate Audio, Charlie Webster, and 50 Cent’s Surviving El Chapo podcast is being developed by BET TV into an unscripted show. Read more here.
Podcast Critic, Vulture’s Nick Quah had questions about the podcasting space, and one of them, my immediate reaction, made me cackle.
An independent podcaster: “The ongoing collapse of ad sales has demonstrated what a bad idea it was for so many podcasts to adopt web media’s reliance on digital ad sales. Scale it back and sell subscriptions, and you might be surprised how possible it is for a small team to make a living podcasting! Also podcast ads are terrible and no one likes them.”
It was mainly the last two lines on how this podcaster is very adamant about podcast ads and subscriptions that I was laughing at. There’s no right answer here. It can be subscriptions or ads. Or it can be both. The audience will tell you where it’ll go.
Anyway, a fun read of answers. Read more here.
Viral sensation, The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff hasn’t posted since November 20th with Jessica Alba. Did it fizzle? I don’t see the live LA show posted either.
Speaking of virality, Who shat on the floor at my wedding? surged again over a similar post that made it viral over the summer with its resurgence. The podcast announced a second season at some point.
I lied in the sub-header. I thought it was going to be a short email, but after I finished, it became a normal-length newsletter. My bad.
Meme of the week:
Publications Master List 2023
I’ve combed through 14 publications and created a master list of the top 11 podcasts that were most in common. Sources include Vogue, PodcastReview.org, Uproxx, The Guardian, CBC, and more.
If Books Could Kill - Michael Hobbes, Peter Shamshiri
The Coldest Case in Laramie - Serial Productions, The New York Times
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar - Pineapple Street Studios, Audacy
Search Engine - PJ Vogt, Audacy
The Retrievals - Serial Productions, The New York Times
Great Pods’ Top 24 of 2023
On to my pick this week…
Podcast: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
Genre: Literature, Business
Publisher: iHeartPodcast Network, Kaleidoscope
About: What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer of giants: DaVinci, Franklin, Doudna, Jobs...and now Musk, former enfante terrible, rocket launcher, electric car innovator, and Twitter—er, X—disruptor, to put it gently. In this four part series, author Evan Ratliff (Mastermind, Longform Podcast) sits down with Isaacson to draw out the behind-the-scenes stories of this epic biography, and what the writer has learned as an outsider inside Silicon Valley.
This is probably the best retelling of Musk by a world-class biographer. Host, Evan is in his purest of forms interviewing Walter Isaacson and moving the story along. I was listening to Search Engine last night, and in the episode of OpenAI, there’s a section of the episode that features Elon from 2015. He wasn’t a great interviewer at that. time as well. Is he a genius? Or is he crazy?
Well, Isaacson doesn’t tell you what to think. He just tells you what happened as he shadowed. It’s even-handed and worth the listen.
Stephen O. • Podcast Delivery
“...It actually delivers a sobering account...incredibly intimate view into one man’s life, but not without stating a few rules of the road first, the biggest of which being that Musk couldn’t control the outcome or contents of his biography...”
Also listen to Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket on his upbringing and life.
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Just Added This Week…
The Mortified Podcast - Mortified Media, Radiotopia
Courtroom Drama - Crime+Investigation
Trashy Divorces - Hemlock Creatives
The View: Behind the Table - ABC News
Uncovering Roots - Uncovering Roots
The Smartest Man in the World - Greg Proops
Empire of Tea - BBC
Top of the Pods this past week on greatpods.co (December 11th-December 17th):
5. Intrigue: Million Dollar Baby - BBC *New to charts
4. Archetypes - Archewell Audio, Spotify
3. Amy and T.J. Podcast - iHeartPodcast Network
2. Who Killed JFK? - iHeartPodcast Network
1. Who shat on the floor at my wedding? *Back on the charts with new virality
Listening with you,
Captain Ron
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