11 Podcasting Business Success Stories [2023]

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• One of the biggest podcast production companies in the world, JAR Audio, was founded by Roger Nairn, Jen Moss, and Aaron Johnson.
• They eventually started the agency to replace traditional advertising with high-quality, high-performing podcasts.
• JAR Audio is a full-service branded podcast agency that assists brands in making meaningful and quantifiable connections with their audience.
• JAR's podcasts consistently achieve listen-through rates of 95–100%. Comparatively, the watch-through rate for professionally made YouTube videos is around 50%.

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In 2017, Craig Hewitt founded Castos, a popular podcasting platform.

Castos makes podcasting easy and accessible to everyone with their hosting platform and integration of the Simple Podcasting plugin

More than 10M people have downloaded the 500+ episodes of podcasts uploaded by Castos.

At present, the Seriously Simple Podcasting pluginhas been installed over 30,000 times, and the Castos hosting service has 10,000 active users

The company generates about $1.5M in ARR

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Jamila Souffrant is the founder of Journey to Launch, a podcast that offers information and tools to help people increase their savings, pay off their debt, and achieve financial independence.

• Her passion started in 2016 as a personal quest for financial independence.
• She launched Journey to Launch first as a blog in 2018, where she used to jot down her journey from being broke to achieving economic empowerment.
• The success of her blog motivated her to launch The Journey to Launch podcasts.
  
• The podcast has helped many listeners come out of debt, stop living paycheck to paycheck and build-savings.
• She received notable media attention in 2018 from outlets like Money Magazine and Insider.
• The podcast had an exceptional year with over 2 million downloads and a Forbes feature.
• Journey to Launch has 10K+ email subscribers, a monthly audience, and social research of 150K+.

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My name is Travis Chappell, and I am the founder of Guestio and the host of the Build Your Network Podcast. Guestio is a Saas marketplace that connects podcast guests to podcast hosts for better conversations. We have our software subscription that enables you to create a press kit that is publicly listed in our marketplace, send up to 50 pitches a month using audio and video, communicate with those you are pitching or those who are pitching you, and even help you charge for your time or audience. We also have an agency that does everything the software does but on a done-for-you basis.

In the agency, we typically work with 7-9 figure founders and help them get booked on top podcasts for publicity, authority, credibility, and traffic. We raised a 1.3 million dollar pre-seed round last year and just clocked in a $220k month in August of 2022.

I’m Gill (pronounced Jill) and I’m the founder of Sober Powered Media. I started my business in June 2022 after growing my podcast, Sober Powered, from no audience at all to a top 100 mental health podcast in 2 years. I started SPM to bring together some of the top mental health podcasts to help us monetize our shows with sponsorships, grow our shows, and work together as a team to share our expertise in a mastermind group.

• Paula quit her job in 2008 and went backpacking around Asia and Australia for the next two years.
• When she returned to the US in 2010 she wanted to do something independently and chose a career as a self-employed writer which brought her a six-figure income.
• She used this money to buy a three-unit house and put two of the units on rent.
• Paula saved money and kept investing in real estate for the next few years.
• Now, she lives her life, and travels the world while her real estate properties are earning money for her.

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Brandon Gaille is the creator of the BrandonGaille.com. His blog primarily covers business tips, funding options, marketing tactics, growth hacks, and more.

He is also the creator of RankIQ.com, an AI-powered SEO tool that assists bloggers in finding keywords and summarizing their articles, and The Blogging Millionaire Podcast.

Additionally, Brandon hosts The Blogging Millionaire, a podcast about blogging that has received the most downloads on Apple. Brendon is getting a combined 6 million visits/month across three of his websites.

Since the 1990s, Brandon has been blogging and working online. He has amassed enormous wealth, overcome some terrifying health issues, and is now one of the most successful bloggers on the internet.

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