This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023.

1. Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global
   - 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads
   - 2023: Higher Rate CPM’s
   
   
2. Benjamin Bellamy- Adures/Castopod
   - 2022: Federated Social Networks
   - 2023: AI for podcasting (Stability.AI)
   Interview: Ad Aures support for OP3 and Castopod updates on ActivityPub plus Cross-Comments.
    
3. Alban Brooke - Buzzsprout
   - 2022: Funny Buzzsprout Video
   - 2023: Podcasters Go Independent, own their IP and sell Premium Content
   
   
4. Harry Duran - Podcast Junkies
   - 2022: Sponsorship beyond the CPM model
   - 2023: Building communities around shows. 
   
   
5. Dave Jones
   - 2022: Live Tag
   - 2023: Slow Continuous Growth
   Interview:  NEW PodPing 2.0 and the Live Item Tag (LIT)
   
   
6. Chris Messina - Tech Ride Home
   - 2022: TwitterSpaces
   - 2023: AI and Decentralised Payments
   
   
7. Matt Mederios - Castos
   - 2022: Podcasting 2.0 movement 
   - 2023: Direct to Listeners
   
   
8. Dan Misener - Bumper
   - 2022: Seeing friends and clients again
   - 2023: Audience growth will prove harder
   
   
9. John Spurlock - OP3
   - 2022: Over 100 podcast hosts making it a healthy eco-system 
   - 2023: Podcasts will get shorter
   
   
10. Arielle Nisenblatt
    - 2022: Travelling the world meeting international podcasters
    - 2023: More travelling the world meeting international podcasters
    
    
11. Neal Veglio
    - 2022: Removal of the email in RSS
    - 2023: Split between Big and Little Podcasts
     
12. Jake Warren - Message Heard
    - 2022: Winning True Crime at British Podcast Awards
    - 2023: Podcasters will want to own more of their own IP

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