Hello, everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show about

Paris. It's a podcast episode that comes out pretty much every week on Mondays. And this is going to be a

rundown of 2022 from the Earful Tower's perspective. This episode, I think, will be more targeted

towards fans of the show, people who want behind

the scenes access and insight into what worked.

But if you're brand new, I think maybe there's something for you too because it'll point

out the most popular things of the year and that could be maybe where you go next.

So the idea in this episode is sort of the best of 2022, a couple

countdowns and my sort of explanations of why I think things worked better than others.

In any case, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. Last time for

2022,

here's some music from PressMax to get us going. So first a bit of a round up.

This podcast, it's more than a podcast now, isn't it?

This channel, this Paris channel grew in 2022 in, I believe, in every single metric except for one.

And I'll talk about that one in a second, but sort of a recap.

The biggest thing for this year was doing that countdown season, which took up sort of the

first half of the year where my wife and I went to every

hour on dismount, all 20 Aaron Dismont of the city, and we sort of reviewed them after staying in a

hotel, eating in a restaurant, finding cafes, finding things to do. And like I said, that was one

every week, so it took up an awful lot of time. It took up an awful lot of money as well because we went really all in. But it seems to have been a good business

decision because it really filled the site and the podcast with what I consider to be really

sort of informative content. And what we also do is, we made videos

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