Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Max S from the Discord server asks, Is Spain the only country to have reached out about ads? I always appreciate those episodes as they help build my knowledge about a specific topic. How did that relationship come to be? Is there a country that you’re surprised to have listeners from?

Every advertiser whose ad I read has reached out in some way. However, the relationship with Spain is special. They were the very first advertiser for the show. In fact, they reached out to me very early on in the show to ask how we could work together. My relationship with Spain goes back to 2010. I had been traveling around the world for 3 years and had grown my travel blog to a pretty good size at the time. A representative from the Valencia Tourism board, shout out to Joantxo if you are listening, reached out to me and asked if I would speak at a conference they were holding on tourism and the internet. It was the first time anyone in the tourism industry, anywhere in the world, reached out to me.

Since then, I’ve returned to Spain many, many times. Despite all my contacts in the travel and tourism industry, Spain has been the only destination that has truly grasped the power of podcasting.

As far as a country I’m surprised to have listeners from, that would have to be Eritrea.