Shaping Your Story in the Age of Converging Aural Media

Podcasting has changed the way we consume information. But there’s a phenomenon-in-the-making worth tuning into for its capacity to shape the way business and personal narratives will be told. Whether you are a content creator, a business owner, or a marketing executive trying to make sense of the latest multi-media explosion, the convergence of radio, …

Podcasting’s Meteoric Rise: 2020 Statistics

We start the year with phenomenal podcast growth – more than 700,000 active podcast shows and more than 29 million episodes, according to research gathered by Music Oomph from sources such as Nielsen and Edison. But that’s only part of the story. Only 15 years ago, “podcast” was added as a word to the dictionary; …

Hooked on Podcasts? It Might be PSI.

The term Parasocial Interaction, or PSI, refers to the psychological relationship experienced by an audience through a mediated encounter with a performer. PSI was first introduced by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl in 1956 to explain the illusory psychological experience through which viewers believe they are engaged in a reciprocal relationship with talk show host, …