"The AI slop that's going to be out there, including in the podcast space, is going to be extreme in the next five years. It's going to take the value of podcast impressions down to almost zero."
When your career prospects are contingent on whether someone wears a watch on a given day or a near-illiterate draws a line in a paper diary, that’s an unusual way to make a living.
Until Nielsen discovers that “it ain’t no fun staring straight down a forty-four” (figuratively, not literally), I expect we’ll be seeing Nielsen back at The Jug again, looking for more ways to cut costs.
My suggestion is to start by asking AI for detailed breakdowns on the person who listens to your station. Then see how it compares with the perceptions of the airstaff.
"WIP in radio and the sports media culture in the city [Philadelphia] is fantastic. I think it's very much dying in a lot of other places. It's really one of the things that makes Philadelphia so awesome to live in."