# The Italian Podcast Market - Co-founder of the Largest Italian Podcast Media Company Offers Insights into the Podcasting Industry in Italy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268/the-italian-podcast-market-co-founder-of-the-largest-italian-podcast-media-company-offers-insights-into-the-podcasting-industry-in-italy Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268/the-italian-podcast-market-co-founder-of-the-largest-italian-podcast-media-company-offers-insights-into-the-podcasting-industry-in-italy.md Podcast: [ITALIAN, FOR SURE | Conversations with Italians in Italy About Italian Culture](https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268) Published: 2026-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/118fe544-5e50-42fa-99f0-bce72a5d05c4.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/118fe544-5e50-42fa-99f0-bce72a5d05c4.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268/episodes/the-italian-podcast-market-co-founder-of-the-largest-italian-podcast-media-company-offers-insights-into-the-podcasting-industry-in-italy Duration seconds: 3005 ## Resource Get the inside scoop on the Italian podcast market, like what podcast genres are popular (or not) in Italy, how the non-verbal in Italian culture - like Italian hand gestures - affects podcast listening, and growth and monetization techniques. * Join the ITALIAN, FOR SURE Trip to Italy! https://italianforsurepodcast.beehiiv.com * Francesco Tassi, co-founder and CEO of VOIS, the Milan-based podcast creators network achieving 6M monthly listens, and host Catrin Skaperdas sit down at the VOIS studios (on March 3, 2026) to navigate the evolution of the Italian podcast industry from 2019 to today, bringing you an entertaining and educational episode about Italian media culture inclusive of: The Italian podcast market in 2019 and why VOIS only worked because of where in Italy it was launched Francesco gives a podcast 101 lesson about the two waves of podcasting (2004 and 2014) The reaction of Francesco telling his Italian friends and family that he was starting a podcast company in 2019 How the podcast market in Italy has changed from 2019 to now and how VOIS has changed from then until now Cross-promotion and monetization techniques in Italy, including dynamic ad insertion (DAI) How podcasts moving toward video has affected the Italian podcast market How other forms of media perceive podcasts (e.g. how radio stations see podcasts) How competition exists between podcasts and between podcasts and radio How the Italian podcast market differs from other markets around the world  Podcast genres that are not popular in Italy: comedy and sports Francesco describes what they call at VOIS “responsible entertainment” Average length of podcasts in Italy and when people are listening, according to the data, and what Francisco thinks about it How non-verbal in Italian culture affec… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268/episodes/the-italian-podcast-market-co-founder-of-the-largest-italian-podcast-media-company-offers-insights-into-the-podcasting-industry-in-italy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-for-sure-conversations-with-italians-in-italy-about-italian-culture-6853268/the-italian-podcast-market-co-founder-of-the-largest-italian-podcast-media-company-offers-insights-into-the-podcasting-industry-in-italy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.