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Breaking Through: Supply Chain Podcasts Cut Through the Noise in a Crowded Field

Back in the day, business news and ideas often flowed from office watercooler conversations. Then company figureheads started popping up on cable TV news programs, lecturing on stock market drops, trade increases, industry gains, and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain shortfalls. Now, podcasts are all the rage, and it can be difficult to stand out in a crowded field. There’s a lot of noise in supply chain podcasts, in particular. How do you break through to share your supply chain insights with potentially millions of listeners?  

Supply Chain Podcasts: Meeting Industry Leaders Where They Are

It’s said that public radio host Christopher Lydon used an audio RSS feed developed by software engineer Dave Winer to provide audio content of interviews on his blog in 2003. A year later, iPodder was created to enable users to download audio content to their iPods, and the word podcast was born.  

This year, the number of podcast listeners is forecast to reach a whopping 254.3 million. Podcasts have become the place for industry leaders to find an eager audience. 

Breaking Through: 3 Ways Supply Chain Podcasts Cut Through the Noise

Today, there are thousands of podcasts that are touted as supply chain-focused. In fact, it’s difficult to nail down just how many supply chain podcasts there are in 2024, although FeedSpot in July listed what it said were the 30 best from a list of 493. 

The top-ranked podcasts, including Supply Chain Now aren’t smoke-and-mirrors entertainment. They address serious topics, and the terms used to describe the leading supply chain podcasts include “informative and educational content,” “thought leadership,” “best practices,” and “leading-edge technologies.” 

Direct Engagement with Target Audiences

There’s obviously an audience eager for focused supply chain content. But while supply chain podcasts provide an avenue for direct engagement with target audiences, that content must say something worth listening to in order to stand out from the 500 other podcasts. Supply chain leaders’ time is valuable. Don’t waste their time with a song and dance.

Supply Chain Now presents valuable information on important industry-related topics such as artificial intelligence and freight tech. 

Thought Leadership and Expert Insights

Effective podcasts provide a platform for supply chain experts to share their valuable insights. True thought leaders easily establish credibility and become voices of influence. They don’t need bells and whistles, just data and depth of knowledge.

Recent guests on Supply Chain Now podcasts hold titles such as senior vice president of supply chain, chief procurement officer, vice president of product management, and head of planning and fulfillment.

Storytelling and Personal Connection

Building personal connections with the audience through engaging narratives is important to differentiate podcasts. Those stories should still be relatable to the audience and related to the supply chain. 

The hosts of Supply Chain Now podcasts are happy to share their industry stories. It’s an industry they love, and they love talking about it. Our expert hosts include Scott W. Luton, Supply Chain Now’s founder and CEO and a top industry influencer; Tandreia Bellamy, the retired vice president of industrial engineering for UPS Supply Chain Solutions; and Jake Barr, CEO of BlueWorld Supply Chain Consulting. 

Supply Chain Now: A Direct Line to Industry Leaders

Forty-five percent of Supply Chain Now’s audience consists of industry leaders – decision-makers, chief operating officers, vice presidents and presidents, directors, and managers.

RateLinx ranks Supply Chain Now as one of the top supply chain podcasts, saying the show “covers everything and anything having to do with advancements in the supply chain. This includes technologies, best practices, perspectives, and even recent case studies. It’s a supply chain podcast meant to help professionals improve their approach to logistics management. Because of the end-to-end coverage of supply chain, it is a broadly applicable show, no matter your role in the industry.” 

RateLinx gets it. Supply Chain Now indeed is designed to help professionals improve their approach to logistics management. It’s serious business, and we take the business seriously.

Supply Chain Now Cuts Through the Podcast Noise

Supply Chain Now has multiple podcasts devoted to the supply chain. Others are:

  • Logistics With Purpose is dedicated to creating a positive impact and addresses such important issues as disaster relief, fighting hunger, and sustainability efforts.
  • Digital Transformers, hosted by Kevin L. Jackson, is recognized as one of the world’s top thought leaders in digitalization. 

Check out these and other podcasts. Listen now.

 

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