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"We are living through a great flowering of the podcast industry, whose province of iTunes is something like a frontier boomtown right now, teeming with hastily

by camtarn 10y ago

"We are living through a great flowering of the podcast industry, whose province of iTunes is something like a frontier boomtown right now, teeming with hastily erected new storefronts. The podcast form has been around since about 2004—it is kissing cousins with the iPod, in that way—but it was only in 2014 that the idea struck gold." Uhhh... what? https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=podcast https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=podcas... A re-flowering perhaps, looking at the trend's rise since 2014 - but certainly not as popular as it was around 2005-2006.

CharlesW 10y ago
> A re-flowering perhaps, looking at the trend's rise since 2014 - but certainly not as popular as it was around 2005-2006. FWIW, that chart doesn't correlate with any measurements of podcasting popularity (e.g. downloads, research) that I'm aware of. For example, Edison Research notes that general familiarity with the term "podcasting" has gone up 22% with Americans in the last two years. Saturday Night Live's satire of Serial is an example of how podcasting has broken into mainstream awareness in a way that it definitely had not even three years ago.