Planning for 2023 – Defining Your Brand and Content Mission

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Planning 2023

Now, this might sound a bit academic, or even cliché to some degree. But it really is important to understand why your brand exists, what purpose it aims to facilitate, and how it makes your customers’ lives better.

Once you know this, you can build your content strategy around that core goal, ensuring that everything you post has a purpose, and you’re not just randomly sharing the latest memes or quotes, in the hopes of hooking a few random customers in amongst the thrall.

That can work, in some ways, but building a deliberate, focused strategy means that your every update becomes another brick in the foundation of your brand, which then enables you to continually connect with people that are aligned with that mission. And those people are your target customers, the ones that will keep coming back, time and time again.

If you can get it right. Read More

Article originally written by Andrew Hutchinson and published on Social Media Today

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“2022 was a breakout year in podcasting. Podcasts have become mainstream with explosive growth among younger and more diverse audiences who are embracing niche genres and new ways of listening,” said Dave Hanley, Chief Revenue Officer at Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast. “In parallel, advertisers are increasingly drawn to the value of the medium as a highly effective, brand safe, and brand suitable environment to market their product or service – which we expect to grow in 2023.”

The AdvertiseCast December 2022 Podcast Advertising Rates

The following rates, which are denoted as cost per thousand or CPM, are published monthly by Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast, the industry’s premier podcast advertising marketplace that connects advertisers with podcasters. The Company releases the figures to empower the podcaster and advertiser communities to readily monitor market pricing and provide greater insight into podcasting advertising as a monetization vehicle. The data is derived from actual sales data across AdvertiseCast’s network of over 3,000 shows, including more than 225 exclusive podcasts.

The three highest CPM categories in December based on delivered advertising were:

  • Technology: $27

  • Education: $26

  • Business: $25

Historical monthly CPM rates can be found on AdvertiseCast’s website. Read More 

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