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Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. Subscriptions are good if you have either massively popular content or massively impactful and

by yoz-y 7y ago

Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. Subscriptions are good if you have either massively popular content or massively impactful and insightful content for professionals who can expense it. I think in current day and age it is possible to start making the latter. But you will not become popular without being free.

coldtea 7y ago
>Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. And many which are just thin excuses for the promotional break...
chimi 7y ago
These types of podcasts are almost always side money for people with a real job.
JohnFen 7y ago
> Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. There are also many good quality podcasts that don't use advertising.
DannyB2 7y ago
Advertising starts out okay. But the endpoint is all ads, no content. And the content is very low quality. An excellent ongoing example is Cable TV. Content is now about 50 % of the time. When a long string of ads are completed, then characters and other bugs and gizmos walk out onto the screen, on top of the content, obscuring the content, sometimes even important plot elements. Or remember how BYTE magazine gradually became pregnant with ads, then eventually became what I would call the forerunner of Computer Shopper. All ads, no content. And the web. Sites now have more ads than content. Especially some "news" sites. And the ads are obnoxious. Pop up, flashing, blinking, jumping, scrolling, in your face, making the content impossible to read.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  But consumers now have the power to block ads, that's something we never really had before (other than fast forwarding through them on TV). This massively evens the power imbalance - if websites keep abusing their customers, bye bye revenue. We're slowly seeing that happen today.

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Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. Subscriptions are good if you have either massively popular content or massively impactful and

by yoz-y 7y ago

coldtea 7y ago
>Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. And many which are just thin excuses for the promotional break...
chimi 7y ago
These types of podcasts are almost always side money for people with a real job.
JohnFen 7y ago
> Podcasts run on advertising and there are many good quality ones. There are also many good quality podcasts that don't use advertising.
DannyB2 7y ago
Advertising starts out okay. But the endpoint is all ads, no content. And the content is very low quality. An excellent ongoing example is Cable TV. Content is now about 50 % of the time. When a long string of ads are completed, then characters and other bugs and gizmos walk out onto the screen, on top of the content, obscuring the content, sometimes even important plot elements. Or remember how BYTE magazine gradually became pregnant with ads, then eventually became what I would call the forerunner of Computer Shopper. All ads, no content. And the web. Sites now have more ads than content. Especially some "news" sites. And the ads are obnoxious. Pop up, flashing, blinking, jumping, scrolling, in your face, making the content impossible to read.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  But consumers now have the power to block ads, that's something we never really had before (other than fast forwarding through them on TV). This massively evens the power imbalance - if websites keep abusing their customers, bye bye revenue. We're slowly seeing that happen today.