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Jon and Justin are back from Portland and the XOXO festival.In the last few weeks we've had a chance to interact with many of our customers in-person: Nate Smoyer – "I’ve been using the podcast as a prospecting tool. Signed one dreams client two weeks ago. Interviewed with one yesterday. Got invited to lead a panel and live podcast for an industry event." Kyle Marshall – Kyle's creating multiple shows for MediaLab in Calgary. Matt Cassinelli and Alex Cox have a new podcast called Supercomputer. Jaime Macías has a great show called Open Tabs. How big is the podcast market? How many podcasts are there? Over 550,000 shows on iTunes and over 18.5 million episodes. 64% of the US population is familiar with the term “podcasting” – up from 60% in 2017 (Infinite Dial 18) 44% (124 million) of the US population has listened to a podcast – up from 40% in 2017 (Infinite Dial 18) 26% (73 million) listen to podcasts at least every month – up from 24% in 2017 (Infinite Dial 18) 17% (48 million) listen to podcasts weekly – up from 15% in 2017 We recorded this episode live Watch on Twitch Watch on YouTube Watch on Periscope What do you think? Leave a comment on Breaker, the podcast app for Android and iPhone. Leave a comment on CastBox, the podcast app for Android and iPhone. Leave a comment on Tung.fm Otherwise, get us on Twitter: @transistorfm or email us: mail@transistor.fm Create your own podcast at transistor.fm Show notes: Thanks to Kevin Markham for being our first Patreon supporter! Also thanks to Adam Duvander and Dan Weaver. Back from XOXO 2018 Justin's bootstrapping articles Twitter poll: What are most podcasts doing wrong? Seth Godin's podcast Akimbo "Branded podcasts are ads people actually want to listen to" - Fast Company Please review us in iTunes – it helps other folks find the show! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★