The story of podcasting starts with Adam Curry, Dave Winer, RSS feeds and iPods. Over the years it has come to mean so much to many who have grown their audiences, built their businesses and ultimately changed people’s lives through the power of podcasting. Has podcasting hit it’s peak? No one knows for sure but what we do know is that there is a lot of potential for growth and mainstream adoption. It might mean that we need to expand the reach of our podcasts beyond the Apple ecosystem and into the Android smart phone market.

It’s our nature to be competitive and aspire for higher rankings but there’s more to the story and I shed some light on Apple podcast rankings and how they are very different from Anchor. In this episode I cover the mysteries and mystique of podcast ranking and along the way I do a little myth busting about the importance of being at the top of the charts.

Blogging has changed so much since I first started back in 2009, and I know that a lot of you are worried about the future of blogging and at times I am too. This question came up during one of my recent Facebook Live streams about the future of blogging in the next 3 to 5 years. It’s an interesting question but, before we dive into this topic, let’s first take a look at what’s changed about blogging in the past. The evolution of blogging that we’ve experienced in the last few years is quite surprising, to say the least.