85 Videos, 104 Subscribers: A Year of Podcasting, YouTube & AI

AI Visibility Podcast | Jason AI Wade | BackTier Media

Eighty-five videos. 104 subscribers. A year of podcasting, YouTube, artificial intelligence, interviews, experiments, and learning in public.

What worked? What failed? And what happens when AI makes producing content easier than ever, but getting people to watch remains just as difficult?

In this episode, Jason AI Wade, founder of BackTier and host of the AI Visibility Podcast, reflects on a year of creating independent media, interviewing industry experts, exploring artificial intelligence, and building a platform around AI discovery, digital authority, entrepreneurship, and emerging technology.

From conversations with SEO experts Andrew Shotland, Mike Blumenthal, and Jeff Deutsch to experiments involving the Lisa Latte Effect, AI flattery, machine identity, and autonomous agents, the podcast has evolved well beyond traditional SEO.

Jason also discusses Lake Wales Startup Night, local entrepreneurship, government, community development, and the unexpected connections between small-town Florida and the global AI economy.

Some videos attracted hundreds of views. Others received almost none. The experience exposed a fundamental difference between content production and audience development.

The biggest lesson: AI can dramatically increase what you produce. It cannot guarantee that what you produce is worth someone's attention.

• One year of podcasting: 85 YouTube videos and 104 subscribers.

• Why publishing more content doesn't necessarily build an audience.

• Using AI for research, scripting, production, and distribution.

• Interviews with experts in SEO, AI search, entrepreneurship, and technology.

• The Lisa Latte Effect, AI sycophancy, and the dangers of borrowed intelligence.

• AI visibility experiments, including a failed blind test.

• Building Lake Wales Startup Night and connecting local entrepreneurs.

• Moving beyond SEO and GEO toward agentic AI strategy.

• Lessons learned and plans for the next year of BackTier Media.

Jason T. Wade (Jason AI Wade) is a Florida-based entrepreneur, author, AI strategist, and founder of BackTier, with more than 20 years of experience in ecommerce, search, digital marketing, marketplaces, and business development.

His entrepreneurial background includes building Modena to $2 million in revenue with a 10-person team and Doorbell Ninja to $700,000 in annual recurring revenue.

Since founding BackTier in 2022, Wade has focused on how artificial intelligence discovers, classifies, cites, and recommends businesses, people, and organizations. His work spans AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), entity architecture, structured data, digital authority, and agentic AI strategy.

He is the author of AI Visibility and Content and AI Visibility (2025) and host and producer of the AI Visibility Podcast, featuring interviews, original research, industry analysis, and experiments examining how AI is changing business, technology, and society.

Through BackTier, NinjaAI.com, and BackTier Media, he develops AI visibility strategies, explores emerging AI systems, and supports entrepreneurship in Central Florida, including organizing Lake Wales Startup Night.

BackTier: https://backtier.com
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Jason Wade: https://jasonwade.com
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