May 30, 2026

Is Video a Fad?

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Today Dave is join by guest co-host Marc Ronick from iRonick Media, and the founder of the Empowered Podcasting Conference. They talk about a post from Hall of Fame Podcaster and Head of Community at Captivate Elise Escobar stating that the gold rush to video may be a passing fad.

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00:00 - Introduction

00:51 - Introducing Mark Ronick

01:42 - Sponsor: PodcastBranding.co

03:01 - Sponsor: Based on a True Story Podcast

05:11 - Is Video a Fad? (Elsie's Article)

26:00 - Video won't die, but the hype is from platforms

28:56 - Do your audience want video?

30:06 - Mark's video growth and FlightCast

34:14 - Background music and sound effects

34:52 - AI in podcasting and Amazon Alexa's new feature

35:51 - The first AI-generated podcast

37:09 - Amazon Alexa's AI podcast feature

40:56 - Dave's bike ride lesson for podcasters

43:55 - Backing music opinions

45:43 - Overusing sound effects

47:51 - Stop measuring downloads

49:19 - Music over the entire podcast

50:27 - Awesome supporters and sponsors

51:15 - Empowered Podcasting Conference

52:27 - Join the School of Podcasting

52:34 - Podcasting in Six Weeks

52:57 - Podcast hot seat

53:15 - Try Podpage

53:35 - Home Gadget Geeks

54:09 - Featured Supporter Ed Sullivan of Sonic Cupcake

55:12 - One Time Donation?

55:28 - Subscription fees and money tips

55:39 - Podcasting Morning Show

55:55 - Monarch Money

56:13 - Acorns Banking (Save Money)

57:06 - AMP alliance for podcast measurement

01:00:23 - Big money and the indie divide

01:04:28 - Standardization and RSS vs. HLS

01:06:18 - Advertising driving the standards

01:07:57 - Independent podcaster standardization needed

01:09:26 - FlightCast analytics and HLS

01:10:54 - Secret meetings and the future of RSS

01:12:40 - Patreon, Supercast, and Substack

01:17:01 - Splitting audience with multiple hosts

01:18:30 - Patreon kicking people off

01:19:17 - Supercast vs. Patreon pricing

01:20:16 - Patreon video shorts feature

01:20:56 - Super chat and Janae

01:21:46 - Fountain and Bitcoin podcasting

01:23:32 - Stephanie Graham on Substack issues

01:24:31 - Lucy Werner's Substack mistake

01:25:21 - Podcast trivia for conference tickets

01:26:51 - Rich Graham wins a ticket

01:28:00 - Second trivia question: companies not in AMP

01:28:56 - Rich gives his ticket to Dan

01:29:54 - Todd wins with Spreaker answer

01:30:54 - Mark's Ironic Media and closing