Keynote address 7 – Don Katz CEO Audible Inc
The main message to the Portable Media Expo from Don Datz, was that for podcasting to take off, it needs to be easy, really easy. Here are the key points:
1) Don’t underestimate how easy podcasting needs to become. It has to be easy to fit into the non-early adopters’ lifestyle – people are intolerant of technological complexity. Future optimisation will come forward and make it simpler – the experience and content needs to become more important than the technology.
2) Make your costs as variable as you can make them – podcasting could be very expensive non-profit making effort. Plenty of big media have made mistakes sinking a lot of money into technology where there is not enough uptake.
3) Move your efforts by some degree into the direction of a sustainable business model. It will change and emerge and evolve, but have some kind of model to start with.
4) There will be new environments and markets for content – there has to be an economy that matches the creativity that will emerge.
5) Be tenacious, tough and protect your ego – take pleasure in doing what you do and saying what you’re going to say. Just stick to it and believe in yourself.
6) Make great audio! The barriers to creating audio and being in this game are lower than they have ever been.
Podcasting will soar because of the quality of the creativity – and the content which is available.
Matt
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