Podcasting is getting huge
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Podcasting is getting huge
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#2I remember podcasts being pretty big sometime around 2008 - a lot of podcasts have stopped publishing since then.
Is it ahead of where it was then?
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#3I remember podcasts being pretty big sometime around 2008 - a lot of podcasts have stopped publishing since then. Is it ahead of where it was then?
I was aware of podcasts when they launched around 2004 (and worked on some related sites) but a lot of the early hype about podcasts as a business didn’t pan out. I suspect it may be misleading to look to the past this point—the upsurge of professional content, advertising, etc. may mean it really is different this time.
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#4The problem with podcasting for me is I have no easy way to consume them that isn't already part of my entertainment workflow.
Literally, if it isn't something I can subscribe to in Youtube, or add it to my queue in Netflix, eventually it just gets lost and falls out of my entertainment workflow.
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#5The problem with podcasting for me is I have no easy way to consume them that isn't already part of my entertainment workflow. Literally, if it isn't something I can subscribe to in Youtube, or add it to my queue in Netflix, eventually it just gets lost and falls out of my entertainment workflow.
Sharing is also problematic, so recommendating a particular show or segment is high friction.
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#6I remember podcasts being pretty big sometime around 2008 - a lot of podcasts have stopped publishing since then. Is it ahead of where it was then?
The Serial podcast is huge, and in journalism, one of the few bright spots of success in indepth reporting...I would say that that alone has accounted for the majority of upswing in number of media reports proclaiming the new popularity of podcasts. So, despite the stats of increased downloads/awareness cited...which may not be impressive at all if we compare them against the overall uptick in phone adoption and mobile digital consumption since 2008...there's no guarantee that podcasting as an industry has real footing...particularly in what exists for creators to create and then get paid. At least, there's nothing on the scope of what Twitch and YouTube have done for gaming screen casters, AFAIK
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#7I understand that a huge percentage of podcast listeners are based in the US but the number of hours I've spent listening to completely irrelevant adverts is insane.
Surely someone can make a service that takes a podcast feed and packages it with different adverts for different markets and then creates new feeds.
I'd make it but the scaling sales end is not something I know how to do.
I suppose it depends how Apple interprets the feed as I assume Apple devices are the most used for podcast consumption.
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#8Sorry for the shameless plug:
A friend and I have launched a podcast publishing platform, batteries included, called Podigee (https://www.podigee.com).
The backend runs on Rails + PostgreSQL, the frontend is a mix of Rails and AngularJS. Also, we run dedicated download / stream servers with some nice Lua scripts for caching the files and reducing overall costs for AWS S3 traffic.
The nicest feature is that once you upload an audio file, we will apply some good audio algorithms to it, encode it to different audio formats, and expose it automatically in your RSS feed.
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#9I understand that a huge percentage of podcast listeners are based in the US but the number of hours I've spent listening to completely irrelevant adverts is insane. Surely someone can make a service that takes a podcast feed and packages it with different adverts for different markets and then creates new feeds. I'd make it but the scaling sales end is not something I know how to do. I suppose it depends how Apple i…
I like the idea.
I find the advertising inside podcasts also particularly annoying. You can't ignore them by looking away like you would on a screen.
Maybe we need an adblock for podcasts (even if it will be difficult to automize -> some manual stripping of the parts where they are promoting stuff)
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#10I remember podcasts being pretty big sometime around 2008 - a lot of podcasts have stopped publishing since then. Is it ahead of where it was then?
Yeah. Incredibly, this article doesn't mention the YouTubers that are driving massive numbers to podcasts.