The breakout success of "Serial" has helped bring new listeners to podcasts. And more importantly, it also has gotten big advertisers interested in podcasting’s audience.
But this won’t necessarily transform podcasting into a true industry that can scale with its audience and growing number of shows. Instead, without more data on listenership and an ad tech infrastructure, the gap between podcasting’s haves and have-nots might widen, podcast executives say.
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