The Next Step for Video Podcasts: Build Formats, Not Episodes

20 May 2026
Ask The Experts
Creator , Industry

YouTube is the default home. Netflix is buying in. Apple Podcasts and Spotify are on board. Sponsors are looking for attention. The audience has split three ways: listeners, watchers, and clip scrollers. But most video podcasts have to settle for a generic look, and advertisers for uncreative spots.

Rob Chandler argues that constraint has gone, and with it, programme formats should become the focus: distinctive visual identities, season-led looks, sets that match the show, built at podcast cadence and cost.

For producers, publishers, networks, and the brands backing them.


 
Speakers
Rob Chandler
Rob Chandler, Founder - The Dean Street Podcast Studio

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The Dean Street Podcast Studio