Navigating the Digital Space: Analyzing the Role of Egyptian Entrepreneurial Podcasts on Business Growth and Fostering Entrepreneurship
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Podcasting is rapidly growing in Egypt as a part of the popular culture, where listeners are attached to an audio content discussing diverse social, political, lifestyle and cultural aspects. Consequently, entrepreneurs and media companies found an opportunity for commercial interest and expansion in the podcasting, hence leveraging it to a professional level that makes it more accessible and affordable for the Egyptian audience. Podcasting, like any other medium, has been reshaped by media “platformization”, where it enabled podcasting to act as an intermediary between diverse users for instance, suppliers, professionals, producers, customers, advertisers, and entrepreneurs that will be particularly investigated in the research paper. This study examined the role of pod casts in driving business growth through the empowerment and information given in the knowledge-sharing platform of podcasting. Moreover, the paper discussed the impact of the success stories narratives and expertise shared on business innovation, through the systematic analysis of a selection of entrepreneurial podcasts. The researcher identified the themes, strategies, market insights, activities and practices and advice provided to the entrepreneurial listener. Lastly the study scrutinized the authenticity as well as the reliability of the podcasts, thus promoting a new type of trust and engagement with its listeners. The researcher utilized qualitative research to some selected Egyptian entrepreneurial podcasts that are significantly growing as an entrepreneurial expert for business innovation and growth, therefore contributing to the fathom of modern communication tactics regrading business success in a competitive Egyptian landscape.
Author: Mariam Amer
Institution: October University of Modern Sciences and Arts
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414497381
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