Podcasts are radio. Clubhouse is radio. We keep reinventing radio and packaging it as something else and then we're surprised when it works. Of *course* it works! Radio dominated media for decades.
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Absolutely. And amazingly they are just re-proving the thesis that content and programming are what matters. In the same way that Quora became Yahoo Answers 2.0 when it scaled, the programming is the value, not the scalability
Content certainly matters, but there are plenty of podcasts that are about absolutely nothing that are still popular. Audio is by its nature more intimate than text, and in a world where parasocial relationships are increasingly common, radio's friend simulation ability is potent
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"about nothing but still popular" -> could this be a difference in how you and I are interpreting the word "content" or do you believe that there's something else going on here?
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There's probably a difference in how we're thinking of it. What I had in mind was the People Discussing Current Events genre of podcasts, where large fan communities emerge (such as the ones on Reddit emerge) and people talk about the hosts as much as the specific episodes.
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