This Week's Special Guests talk about their podcasting highlights for 2022 and their predictions for 2023.Mark Asquith - Captivate/Global - 2022: News Agents Hits 10m downloads - 2023: Higher Rate CPM’sBenjamin Bellamy- Adures/Castopod- 2022: Federated Social Networks- 2023: AI for podcasting (Stability.AI)Interview: Ad Aures support for OP3 and Castopod updates on ActivityPub plus Cross-Comments. Alban Brooke - Buzzsprout- 2022: Funny Buzzsprout Video- 2023: Podcasters Go Independent, own their IP and sell Premium Content Harry Duran - Podcast Junkies- 2022: Sponsorship beyond the CPM model - 2023: Building communities around shows. Dave Jones- 2022: Live Tag- 2023: Slow Continuous GrowthInterview:  NEW PodPing 2.0 and the Live Item Tag (LIT)Chris Messina - Tech Ride Home- 2022: TwitterSpaces- 2023: AI and Decentralised PaymentsMatt Mederios - Castos- 2022: Podcasting 2.0 movement  - 2023: Direct to Listeners Dan Misener - Bumper- 2022: Seeing friends and clients again- 2023: Audience growth will prove harderJohn Spurlock - OP3- 2022: Over 100 podcast hosts making it a healthy eco-system - 2023: Podcasts will get shorterArielle Nisenblatt- 2022: Travelling the world meeting international podcasters- 2023: More travelling the world meeting international podcasters Neal Veglio- 2022: Removal of the email in RSS- 2023: Split between Big and Little Podcasts Jake Warren - Message Heard- 2022: Winning True Crime at British Podcast Awards- 2023: Podcasters will want to own more of their own IPEVENTS:Podcast Movement Evolutions in Las Vegas - 6th - 10th MarchThe Podcast Show in London -  24th-25th MaySend James & Sam a messageSupport the showConnect With Us: Email: weekly@podnews.net Fediverse: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net