Transcript
Introduction
Matt
All right, Dom. We are back. It is 2024. It is a new year. We are going to talk about some of the stuff we got going on into the new year. But we want to reflect on 2023. This was your idea. I think it is a great reflection exercise to be doing. Many people are doing it, and it's a good chance to look back at what we did, some of the early stuff, which is so easy to forget about, some of the more recent stuff.
Macro Changes
I actually wanted to, and I sprung this upon you, start at the highest of levels, the macro level, the podcast industry level, and just talk about some of the data points going into the year, December downloads for the largest publishers in the industry, the top 20 publishers in the industry. Downloads are down 24% year-over-year.
Dom
Wow.
Matt
A lot of that is coming from Apple and the iOS 17 changes. So...