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With a nice blurred out photo background, beautiful illustration of a coffee cup with waveform, and clean lines, CoffeeBreak Academy inspires us to listen. This kind of design is most likely finished in something like Canva, dropped as a png into Wavve, waveform animation is then added, and they can load the finished video anywhere they want. Their YouTube has over 114,000 subs, so they are doing it right. 👏👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿
- Fewer podcasts were created in 2022 than in the two years prior. Sounds like it's time to release your greatest hits.
- New podcasts created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022. So if you are new to the game, #respect.
- A hot exclusive find by PodNews, Google Podcasts has been removed from Google Search. Is Google positioning to have YouTube make a larger play in podcasting? We shall see.
- Lest you start getting FOMO about doing a video podcast, in a recent survey, over half of podcasters planned to stick to audio only for their shows in 2023.
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