I was reading the State of Business Podcasting 2025 report last week. It analyses the Top 100 Business Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, reviewing over 70 data points per show to understand how leading business podcasts operate. It is descriptive, not prescriptive, offering trends which might help inform strategic decision making. I looked at this from… Read More Audio Advantages
The 16–18-year-olds in a fascinating Demos report published last week are about to enter the workplace. They are not the “Gen Z” that’s been written about for the last decade. They’re something else. They’re Gen Z 2.0: hyper-stimulated, algorithm-shaped, politically sceptical and raised on feeds that never stop. They’re younger than the iPhone. This matters… Read More When Gen Z 2.0 Enters Work
I was reading about a film writer and director recently. He was talking about the breakdown of his relationship with his producer. In the last two months of pre-production, he had received only five emails from her. She rarely turned up on set. She failed to secure the music rights they needed and did not… Read More Are we still making this together?
I’m delighted to start confirming speakers for the Podcast Learning Festival and this first group says a lot about what the festival stands for. We were really keen that people coming get to hear from real voices who know learning, audio, and impact. Here are four of them: 🔹 Ruth Wood – Talk That Changes… Read More Building a team
People often ask me where my ideas come from. I’ve mentioned ‘bricolage‘ before and the pushing together of different ideas to create new things and seeing what emerges. I never get asked where I keep my ideas. I write them down. Not on a laptop, not in an app, but with pen and paper. I’ve… Read More Where ideas live