I think it's been underreported to what extent podcasting (known as audioblogging for the first uneventful 5 years of its life) is an artifact of an advertising bubble. The nature of ads is to chase new formats, so you can tell better stories to ad buyers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html …
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If you are a podcast listener, you can easily decide whether I'm right just by reflecting on the kinds of ads you've heard, and whether that sounds like a sustainable financial basis for the medium. Feel free to post examples to the thread.
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And if you know of (or want to help me build) a pod2text service for people who don't want to listen to some beardo chewing peanuts on a live mic, hit me up.
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Just remember the famous pivot to video, where ad networks persuaded newsrooms that from now on we were going to get all of our news from short video clips, and how that went.
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