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Half the country is listening to podcasts

every single month. 156 million Americans voted, but 158 million Americans listened to a podcast last

month. Isn't there competition? Isn't there a lot of podcasts? How do I break through?

We're going to uncover why video podcasting is actually the biggest opportunity right now.

There's over one billion monthly active viewers of podcast content on YouTube alone.

It's not too late.

The door is actually wide open for you this year.

Sean, you've done over 500 podcast episodes yourself.

And the first reason we have to start a video podcast is the audience is massive and the demand is only growing.

Yeah, you know, 100%.

And I want to address the elephant in the room.

I'm sure, you know, listeners are like, isn't there competition? Isn't there a lot of podcasts? How do I break through? And as we go throughout the episode, you know, I think we're going to handle those objections. But what we really want to look at is the actual math. And number one, the audience is massive and demand is only growing. So there's an estimated 584 million podcast consumers globally. That was in

2025. And the data that was pulled for that, I think, is leaning on the audio side. So so many

people, of course, still consume podcasts on audio via Apple, Spotify, and other places. But separately,

YouTube has over one billion monthly

viewers of podcast content. And so the audience is massive, no matter how you count it, of people

that want these longer form conversations, that want interviews, that want solo episodes,

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