That’s right!

As of April of last year DiscoverPods has a new management and new ownership. Mainly I’ve come on board as the majority stakeholder in this here venture.

You may have noticed some changes while we are still working through the transition. Let me explain what’s going on and why Kevin and I are so pleased you’re with us on this journey.

First, a bit of background. I started working as a freelance writer here at DiscoverPods way back in December of 2019 when I wrote my first post for the site from a local pub in my wife’s hometown on a particularly sunny day in England.

England with sun. I know, it’s confusing, but it was something of an omen. A sign if you will, that this was a project I’d become deeply involved with.

What the New Ownership Has Been Up To

Fast forward through the pandemic and having a couple of babies at home, Kevin and I decided to move forward with this site as a joint venture. So, here’s what we’ve been up to.

  • Updating the site’s back end. We were lagging a bit with Google’s new transition. We are, after all, cool tech nerds, and that part needed a face lift.
  • Updating the editorial direction of the site. This is after all a site designed to find the best podcasts available. Something of a needle in a haystack.
  • Ensuring that our advertising reflects the site’s direction. We have partnered with some of the best podcast service providers in the space to make sure that when you go to make your podcast this year (and you should), that you have the right tools at your disposal.

Where We’re Headed

Looking forward to 2023 we will be finishing up the podcast awards for 2022 and getting back to a standard editorial schedule now that Google is done beating us up.

Lastly, sincerely, thank you for hanging in there with us while we tidied up a bit and we want you, the reader, to be an integral part of the site moving forward.

Is there a podcast that you’re obsessed with that we haven’t covered? Let us know by suggesting it for a podcast spotlight.

DiscoverPod's new ownership is committed to being a voice for all communities in the podcast space.
eMarketer. (February 28, 2022). Number of monthly podcast listeners on Spotify and Apple Podcasts in the United States in 2022 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 28, 2023

As the industry matures and more people are adopting podcasts, we’re excited with where the industry could be heading. We intend to be a voice in that discussion moving forward with our editorial direction.

We want you to be a part of that voice as well. As we move forward with the new ownership structure, your voice is as vital as ours. We may listen to more podcasts than the average bloke, but that doesn’t mean that we hear everything. If we’re missing voices or communities that are underrepresented, we want to know about it.

We love indie podcasts as much (if not more lest I betray my punk rock youth) as slickly produced corporate based or NPR style podcasts.

We’re excited for what this burgeoning 2023 will bring and we appreciate your being along for the ride. If you haven’t been here in a while, check out some of the latest posts we’ve been working on.

While not completely indicative of the editorial direction, we continue to put out content our visitors are actively looking for. If you have a question or concern, a suggestion or would like to contribute, you can reach out to me directly.

I’m excited to hear from our readership, and here’s to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2023.

Sincerely,
James
james@discoverpods.com

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