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Podcasting was hard at the time of the iPod ? Seriously ? Isnt't that the other way around, it was hard until iTune made it easy to suscribe to thousands of podcast from a single, unified interface ? Vox has short memory.
I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…
To the broader point, there are a lot of instances where an engaged conversation produces fresher insights to my mind than a carefully constructed article. In the entertainment world, it's practically pioneered a new brand of confessional comedy. More to this audience's taste, hearing a founder pitch a product and answer some challenging questions on the a16z podcast is far more interesting to me than any profile I've ever read in Tech Crunch/WSJ/whatever.
I 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…
Out of curiosity, what podcasts do you listen to that have ads? I listen to a couple hours of podcasts every day for a couple years now and have never heard one (beyond the podcast itself asking for patreon support).
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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 mobi…
Serial podcast was great. Tim Feriss is good, Dan Carlin is awesome. Any other podcast you'd recommend? Excluding the self promotional internet business types.
I 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)
Get headphones with forward/back buttons on them. As soon as the ads start it's one or two quick taps on a button by my neck and I'm back to the podcast.
I 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…
Out of curiosity, what podcasts do you listen to that have ads? I listen to a couple hours of podcasts every day for a couple years now and have never heard one (beyond the podcast itself asking for patreon support).
I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio, they're not that annoying and usually relevant to the podcast subject matter. If they started playing multiple irrelevant adverts back to back, with accompanying audio compression, then I'd be upset about it.
I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…
If you use the Apple Podcast app you can listen on 1.5x or 2x speed which is useful.
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I used to feel the same way until I realised listening to podcasts was more a passive activity. Reading is active - as in you have to take time away from other things to do it - listening to podcasts is more akin to listening to music. It's possible to do actively of course, I know there are people out there that listen to music without any interruptions. The primary market for podcasts however are likely to be peopl…
I have the same "problem" as the GP. If I just let a podcast play on the backgrond, I'll certainly learn nothing at all from it.
Not a bad thing on either side of course, just differing use cases.
My biggest problems are that there's too many of them and it's easy to miss the one or two really interesting episodes in a sea of monthly/weekly content. Even more so if you listen to them at 2x speed and rarely have the time to stop and actively pay attention.
It's more of a form of pleasant background noise with the occasional glimpse of really interesting information. Like overhearing a conversation between colleagues.
I used to have a serious podcast habit - one of which used to run adverts for Audible. Now I listen to audiobooks and hardly ever listen to podcasts and never listen to the podcast where I learned about Audible.
Rogan? So many ads for Audible.