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A lot of the tech podcasts I listen to - e.g., Arrested Devops, Talk Python to Me, Software Engineering Daily, Re/Code Decode - have fairly prominent adverts.

by Leynos 11y ago

A lot of the tech podcasts I listen to - e.g., Arrested Devops, Talk Python to Me, Software Engineering Daily, Re/Code Decode - have fairly prominent adverts. Sometime read out by the presenter themselves, other times presented as a piece of pre-recorded audio. In the former cases, they'll sometimes do their best to make reference to the content of the podcast in the advertising message. 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.

gnrme 11y ago
I'm the other way around. I immediately lose trust in a host as soon as they start reading an ad - it shows that the production doesn't have a strict separation of content and sales.
bane 11y ago
Interesting, I wonder how much of this is an artifact of podcasts oriented more towards a hobbyist audience vs. a professional audience? Podcasts aren't expensive to produce at a basic level, it's mostly just the hosts sitting around and chatting on skype for an hour every week or two. I'm only aware of one podcast I listen to that frequently asks for contributions, and that's mostly because the hosts have found they work best when they're physically co-present and have to fly one of the hosts out every month to record a bunch of shows all at once. > I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio Yeah, I agree. When the parent discussed adverts before I was thinking of the more commercial radio type. I think it's an effort to try to monetize podcast audiences, but at least for me I'm able to find more content than I can listen to, run by hosts that aren't all that interested in turning their hobby into a money making venture.

by Leynos 11y ago

gnrme 11y ago

I'm the other way around. I immediately lose trust in a host as soon as they start reading an ad - it shows that the production doesn't have a strict separation of content and sales.

bane 11y ago

Interesting, I wonder how much of this is an artifact of podcasts oriented more towards a hobbyist audience vs. a professional audience? Podcasts aren't expensive to produce at a basic level, it's mostly just the hosts sitting around and chatting on skype for an hour every week or two. I'm only aware of one podcast I listen to that frequently asks for contributions, and that's mostly because the hosts have found they work best when they're physically co-present and have to fly one of the hosts out every month to record a bunch of shows all at once. > I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio Yeah, I agree. When the parent discussed adverts before I was thinking of the more commercial radio type. I think it's an effort to try to monetize podcast audiences, but at least for me I'm able to find more content than I can listen to, run by hosts that aren't all that interested in turning their hobby into a money making venture.