Thank you for running this! And another thanks to Measured_Words for the wrangling.

I like the anon period, myself. As others already noted, there's a value to not knowing who created what. I find it heightens the gift-exchange feel, and contributes to the social aspect. I do agree the anon period should be kept to 1-3da - long enough to give people a fair chance to go through the works, but no longer than that (as that's liable to make people antsy and fidgety).

I like the mixed media thing. I'm fond of that sort of work in general, and it seems it really enriched things for this exchange in particular. The podfic option may needs a bit of reworking, though. I wonder if it would be possible to work a pod_together-style option, i.e., a writer and a podficcer signing up together. This might significantly up the number of podfics created for this exchange. (On the AO3 end - possibly have only one member of the team submit a signup form, with the other member confirming on PM or email?) I know that if such an option was available this year, I'd absolutely volunteer for it.