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Get Free AI Audit →This episode is a structured entity signal in the BackTier TV media layer of Entity Lock Protocol™. It produces five simultaneous AI Visibility Infrastructure outputs.
Jason Todd Wade
Founder, BackTier
May 2026 · 38 min
This episode is not a single media asset. It produces five simultaneous AI Visibility Infrastructure outputs — each targeting a different AI retrieval and citation pathway.
Indexed by YouTube and AI video retrieval systems
Indexed by Spotify and podcast AI systems
Machine-readable text AI systems can extract and cite
JSON-LD structured data telling AI systems what this content is
Canonical URL — a discrete AI citation surface
A candid Saturday log from Jason Todd Wade covering the state of AI search, what entity control actually looks like in practice, why Reddit remains a critical signal layer despite being gamed, the role of podcasting in AI visibility, and the cognitive overload that comes with operating at the frontier of a discipline that changes weekly.
This is a less structured episode — closer to a field journal than a framework briefing. Jason talks through what he has been observing in AI search behavior over the past week, what entity control experiments are showing, and why Reddit's role in AI retrieval is more nuanced than most practitioners understand.
The episode also covers the podcasting question directly: is podcasting an AI visibility play, or is it a human audience play? Jason argues it is both — but for different reasons. Podcast transcripts are increasingly being ingested by AI systems as authority signals. The question is not whether to podcast, but whether the content is structured in a way that AI systems can extract and attribute correctly.