Recap of the Spotify ALL EARS Podcast Summit

Spotify’s Podcast Summit opens its doors in Berlin

After its premiere in 2022, the Spotify ALL EARS Podcast Summit had its second installment this year. On April 20, big names from the podcast scene once again flocked to the German capital to network with each other, present their formats, and discuss the success of the podcast phenomenon and its future potential on a meta level.

Industry stars grace Spotify’s ALL EARS

There was a stream of famous podcasters attending this year’s Spotify ALL EARS Podcast Summit. Among the highlights was one of the most successful German-speaking podcasters, Tommi Schmitt, who co-hosts the German comedy podcast “Gemischtes Hack.” He was joined by Olli Schulz (co-host of the German satirical current affairs podcast “Fest & Flauschig”) on the summit’s main stage. Many of the formats presented revolve around what’s currently happening in the lives of the hosts, making for a diverse range of topics addressed in their podcasts – something that was obviously also reflected in the keynotes given at the summit. For example, the Kaulitz brothers explore different topics compared to Anke Engelke, who was at the summit to represent the podcast she shares with Riccardo Simonetti. The vast array of podcast topics and guests also included figures such as Düzen Tekkal, an influential political scientist, journalist, and social entrepreneur who stands up for human rights across the world.

Advertising in the spotlight

At the Spotify ALL EARS Podcast Summit 2023, advertising literally had its own stage, giving agencies, marketers, and businesses the opportunity to share their perspectives on the promising podcast market. Many of the keynotes centered around the high level of acceptance shown by podcast listeners when it comes to ads. Successful case studies were discussed at the summit in this respect, while numerous presentations explored the success of advertising in podcasts on a programmatic level and on the basis of figures. The bottom line is that podcast advertising is already proving successful, but there is still untapped potential for hosts and advertisers to leverage.

The German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) also spoke about the focal topic on the advertising stage: in their keynote, Luisa Abraham (Podcast Managing Director at Zebralution GmbH) and Dr. Lars Peters (Spotify Podcast Sales Lead for Germany and Spain and also deputy chairman of the BVDW focus group “Digital Audio”) addressed different forms of podcast advertising and the standards that have been created for them by the BVDW.

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In addition to organizing Europe’s leading digital marketing and tech event, we host our own DMEXCO podcast, where we take a deep dive into business models, interesting approaches, and marketing news together with guests from the industry. Some topics simply need to be dealt with in a detailed podcast format to do them justice. That’s what makes the medium so appealing, because podcasters can really focus their attention on a subject. The Spotify ALL EARS Podcast Summit 2023 once again showed that listeners enjoy incorporating this source of information and entertainment into their daily lives, make time for it, and are not averse to podcast ads, which ultimately fund the format.