Summary: <br> The Audacity to Podcast is back! And before jumping back into the content to help you grow and improve your podcast, I want to share three things I'm really excited about!<br> <br> <br> <br> 1. The Audacity to Podcast won a Podcast Award!<br> <br> <br> <br> The People's Choice Podcast Awards, started by Todd Cochrane, are the longest-running podcast awards. I was surprised back in 2012 when The Audacity to Podcast won best technology podcast and I was handed the trophy by Leo Laporte, one of my podcasting heroes. And I was surprised and honored again to win in 2023!<br> <br> <br> <br> THANK YOU!<br> <br> <br> <br> Here was my acceptance speech:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> 2. Podgagement has launched!<br> <br> <br> <br> After more than 4 years in development, I completed the revolutionary upgrade of <a href="https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/mpr" title="My Podcast Reviews – International podcast reviews automatically emailed to you" class="pretty-link-keyword" target="_blank">My Podcast Reviews</a> to Podgagement! This new service carries over all the review-tracking features of <a href="https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/mpr" title="My Podcast Reviews – International podcast reviews automatically emailed to you" class="pretty-link-keyword" target="_blank">My Podcast Reviews</a>, but adds a whole lot more to focus on helping you engage your audience and grow your podcast. Thus the new name, Podgagement. (Is it really a podcasting product if it doesn't have “pod” or “cast” somewhere in the name?)<br> <br> <br> <br> Podgagement brings new features and a whole-new feature tier with even more benefits!<br> <br> <br> <br> In short, everything from <a href="https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/mpr" title="My Podcast Reviews – International podcast reviews automatically emailed to you" class="pretty-link-keyword" target="_blank">My Podcast Reviews</a> has been migrated to the new “Astro” tier, and the brand-new “Constellation” tier offers even more features! The Constellation-exclusive features include collecting voice and written feedback from your audience; tracking your in-app podcast networking through recommendations, Podcasting 2.0 “Podroll” feature, and more; and many more upcoming features like chart-tracking, SEO tracking, AI-powered audience-engagement enhancement, monetization features, and more.<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://podgagement.com/podgagement-we-have-liftoff/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read more about the launch of Podgagement in my announcement post here.</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Or here me talk about in in my guest appearance <a href="https://weekly.podnews.net/1538779/14111143-copyright-claims-spotify-s-job-losses-pod-people-and-podgagement" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">on Podnews Weekly Review with James Cridland and Sam Sethi</a> and <a href="https://schoolofpodcasting.com/podgagement-engagment-in-your-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">on School of Podcasting with Dave Jackson</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> 3. I'm being inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame!<br> <br> <br> <br> This announcement has been burning a whole in my drafts for several weeks! I'm being inducted into <a href="https://podcasthof.com">the Podcast Hall of Fame</a> this year <a href="https://podfestexpo.com/">at the 10th anniversary Podfest Expo in Orlando</a>! I hope that you can be there to celebrate with me!<br> <br> <br> <br> A personal aside<br> <br> <br> <br> If you've followed me for a while, you know that the last few years have been very difficult for me, both personally and professionally. <br> <br> <br> <br> There have been many ups and downs. I would start to rebuild on apparent stability in life,
