# Tony Doe: Into the Podverse Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/tony-doe-into-the-podverse Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/tony-doe-into-the-podverse.md Podcast: [The Sound Off Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125) Published: 2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://art19.com/shows/sound-off-podcast-series/episodes/ac4be3f7-22df-4f34-bf71-590a36d4736a Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/p.podderapp.com/8355482824/op3.dev/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/ac4be3f7-22df-4f34-bf71-590a36d4736a.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/episodes/tony-doe-into-the-podverse Duration seconds: 2383 ## Resource Let's go to Lagos! Tony Doe is one of the most thoughtful voices in Nigeria, and he's here to provide some excellent insights into the past, present and future of podcasting. As a former Nigerian radio broadcaster turned podcaster, Tony reflects on the lost intimacy of radio as studios chase visual appeal and social media reactions, and explains why he rejects the idea that video is the “next phase” of podcasting. He warns creators about building shows inside walled gardens like Spotify and YouTube, sharing personal and second-hand stories of lost control and opaque platform decisions. We speak quite a bit about one of Tony's most important personal projects, the  Nigerian Podcast Index . Built by Tony and other Nigerian industry veterans, it's an independent public directory designed to document, preserve, and make discoverable every independent podcast created in Nigeria or by Nigerians. It's an incredible tool created to fill a critical gap in data, discovery, and monetization for African podcasters while navigating language barriers, infrastructure limits, and payment restrictions. He also introduces his own shows: His long-running Arsenal fan podcast, Up Gunners! , as well as Into the Podverse , a show about the innovation, challenges, and opportunities shaping African and global podcasting, which Sound Off fans might particularly enjoy and should definitely check out. If it piques your interest, make sure you also subscribe to the newsletter on Substack. Please sign up for the SOUNDING OFF Newsletter.  All the things that went unsaid on the show. Also we added the Sound Off Podcast to the The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) A free and open-source podcast  prefix analytics service  committed t… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/episodes/tony-doe-into-the-podverse/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-off-podcast-1108125/tony-doe-into-the-podverse.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.