Rob Greenlee

My Digital Life Show #7: The Future of Radio and Podcasting

Here is episode #7 of the “My Digital Life Show” for Tuesday, July 16th, 2013. This episode topic is about “The Future of Radio and Podcasting from 2005 to 2013 with Radio Expert/Consultant Mark Ramsey.

In this episode we cover these more specific questions:

How Podcasts and Radio Content will blend together in the Car?
Possible changes coming to broadcast radio?
Does radio needs some of the current podcasts talent to succeed now and in the future?

I interviewed Mark Ramsey back in 2005 for my ITConversations Network “WebTalk with Rob Greenlee” show. Back then, we both talked about the potential of podcasting in the face of shrinking radio audiences and how major celebrities will lead to audience growth in podcasting in the early days of podcasting. Here is a link to that full interview from 2005. I replay a key 9 minutes from that interview in the current episode here.

Fast forward 8 years, to 2013 and how have things changed and did we get it right back in 2005? What are the predictions for radio and podcasting going forward from 2013?

Links:

Full WebTalk with Rob Greenlee on ITConversations Interview from 2005

Mark Ramsey Media

Hivio

Radios Ripped from New Cars, Consumers say, “Not So Fast”

Retraction: The Exact AM/FM Dash Story by Eric Rhoads of RadioInk

Episode length: 56 min MP3 Recorded: 7-16-2013

Please feel free to give me feedback on this show to: rob at robgreenlee dotcom or twitter @robgreenlee . Leave some of your thoughts here in the comments and I will respond to them in next week episode.

My Digital Life Show #5: Part 2 Growing Globalization of Podcasts and Electric Cars

Here is episode #5 of “My Digital Life with Rob Greenlee” for Tuesday, June 18th, 2013.

This episode is part 2 of a series on the growing globalization of Podcasts and what that means for podcasting’s future.

This week, I have an extensive interview with Nicole Simon, Author, Social Media and Podcast Consultant at nicole-simon.eu from Berlin, Germany. She can also be found on Twitter here @nicolesimon .

I also present an update on my 2 year ownership experience of an 100% Electric 2011 Nissan Leaf. CNET TV Top 5 Electric Cars is also discussed in this episode — read more from CNET here .

Links:
DropCam.com
Paladin

My Digital Life Show #4: Growing Globalization of Podcasts

Here is episode #4 of the new “My Digital Life with Rob Greenlee” for Tuesday, June 11th, 2013.

This episode is focused on the growing globalization of podcasts and what that means for podcasting’s future. As you can see, I stay focused on my passion and that is the medium of “Podcasting” for another week.

Interview guest is Karin Hoegh, Podcast Consultant at Podconsult.dk from Copenhagen, Denmark.

The below ranking chart gives a glimpse into the future of podcasts and maybe all on-demand media consumption over the next 5-10 years.

Here is a Top 10 Ranked List of the Most Spoken Languages around the World:

Mandarin – 1 Billion + (Chinese)
English – 508 Million + (New Zealand, U.S., Australia, England, Zimbabwe, Caribbean, Hong Kong, South Africa, Canada and more)
Hindustani – 500 Million + (India)
Spanish – 400 Million + (Spain, Mexico, Cuba and most South and Central American countries)
Russian – 300 Million (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, US to name a few)
Arabic – 250 Million + (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt)
Bengali – 215 Million – (Bangladesh mostly, but many other countries have these speakers)
Portuguese – 200 Million – (Brazil, Macau, Angola, Venezuela, and Mozambique)
Malay-Indonesian – 175 Million – (Malaysia and Indonesia)1
French – 135 Million – (France, Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti)

Here is a download referrer ranked list by country breakout of the top countries consuming podcasts over the past few months. This data is from the largest podcast hosting provider in the world – Libsyn.

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
China
Australia
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Germany
Spain
Mexico
France
Sweden
Russian Federation
Singapore
Brazil
Saudi Arabia
Italy
Netherlands
Thailand
India

China has broken into the top 5.

The other languages represented in the above Top 20 country download referrer list, that are not included in the Top 10 Most Spoken Languages are Japanese, Korean, German, Swedish, Italian, Thai, and Dutch. The current largest languages not represented in the Top 20 country list are Malay-Indonesian and Bengali.

Links:

http://www.vloggerfair.com

http://thebuglepodcast.com

My Digital Life Show #3: Top 13 Things that “Really” Build a Podcast Audience

Here is episode #3 of the new “My Digital Life Show with Rob Greenlee” for Sunday, June 2nd 2013.

This episode is even closer to the vision that I have for this show, but have more improvements to come. You will notice that I improved the audio production and am now using my Sure SM7B microphone and Mackie 802-VLZ3 mixer. This change from episode one is dramatic.

My goal here is not do a monologue show, but to have some guests sprinkled in to add some varied opinions and to get listeners more involved in the show.

The topic this week stays focused on my passion and that is the medium of “Podcasting”.

The Topics This Week:
1) Top 13 Things that “Really” Build a Podcast Audience
2) EFF Legal Defense fundraising $50K+ to Fight a “Podcast Patent Troll”

Here are links to things mentioned in the show:

The EFF Save Podcasting effort is here, the link to submit and see submitted prior art is here

Thank you to Michael Wolf and JD Sutter for contributing with comments that you will hear in this episode. Here is a link to the article written by JD Sutter.

Here is a link to the “Speaking of That” podcast hosted by Robert Keeme of which I played a snippet. Thanks guys for the nice comments.