The podcast boom is over

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Post by PixelPanda » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 10:10 AM UTC

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Post by narrator » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:35 AM UTC

The thing about podcasting is, unlike video, it is extremely cheap to host and distribute podcasts. The technology is old and well understood and can run from a basic website. The syndication format is RSS. Spotify and everyone else has trouble adding value to that. Also, podcasting is mostly about the guests and they can bounce around to different shows that are in the networks and outside them.

Re: The podcast boom is over

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Post by nicetryguy » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:42 AM UTC

Everything i don't know about the podcast industry is the truth?

I know Spotify has been hemorrhaging cash and paying Joe Artist like absolute crap for more than a decade. Not sure what TC is trying to tell me?

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Post by behnamoh » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC

The title sounds like a typical podcast line.

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Post by kgwxd » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:45 AM UTC

nicetryguy wrote: post #3

Everything i don't know about the podcast industry is the truth? I know Spotify has been hemorrhaging cash and paying Joe Artist like absolute crap for more than a decade. Not sure what TC is trying to tell me?

All Joe Artist except that one Joe they're constantly shoving in my face even though I've never once listened to anything that would remotely suggest I'd want to.

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Post by jzl » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:46 AM UTC

This article doesn't nearly live up to the ambitious headline. It didn't really have much to say. If anything, it doesn't even touch on the real problem facing most podcasts: the severe decline in podcast advertising revenue. Which doesn't have anything to do with Spotify.

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Post by sp332 » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:47 AM UTC

Well now that Spotify has paused buying their competitors and making podcasts exclusive, maybe the rest of us will get better podcasts to listen to again.

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Post by JacobThreeThree » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:48 AM UTC

Any so-called "hits-based" industry, like entertainment, is at the make or break mercy of consumer whims. Technology is not going to change that anytime soon.

TechCrunch doesn't mention the interest rate hikes, but I'd say that's the primary underlying reason for the layoffs.

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Post by nightowl_games » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 4:56 AM UTC

narrator wrote: post #2

The thing about podcasting is, unlike video, it is extremely cheap to host and distribute podcasts. The technology is old and well understood and can run from a basic website. The syndication format is RSS. Spotify and everyone else has trouble adding value to that. Also, podcasting is mostly about the guests and they can bounce around to different shows that are in the networks and outside them.

Spotify is not attempting to add value. Spotify is attempting to extract value.

And they are having trouble extracting value.

Spotify's podcast experience is far far worse than Pocket Casts, an app I've had on android for years and years.

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Post by n9 » Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 5:07 AM UTC

i don't think that I'm alone is wishing very much that there was a setting to make spotify into a streaming music app. I hate having podcasts and now books shoved into my POV when I want to listen to music. It sucks.