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Stern had bonuses to grow the sirius audience if I remember correctly. Amazing considering Sirius had like 600k subscribers at the time! Stern was at his heigh
by dpweb 6y ago
Stern had bonuses to grow the sirius audience if I remember correctly. Amazing considering Sirius had like 600k subscribers at the time!
Stern was at his height in 2001-2004 I think was peaking at 25m listeners in the mornings on terrestrial radio. Which was fucking massive. Dropped off huge on day 1 at Sirius and I don't think ever recovered most of his audience.
Interesting that audience size != what's a good deal for the broadcaster. Like music however I suspect the REAL value is in the 'back catalog'.
- ramblerman 6y ago> Like music however I suspect the REAL value is in the 'back catalog'. Really? As a semi frequent JRE listener, if I missed an interesting guest I'll still go back and listen, but I'm not particularly motivated to go and listen to an interview from 1 year ago, or any historical one for that matter. It needs to be current for me, I'm not convinced it has the replayability of music, or a tv show like friends say.
- manigandham 6y agoThere's a 3rd option between latest vs replay called older episodes you haven't watched yet. He has almost 1500 episodes covering thousands of hours. Many people listen to the back catalog while waiting for the latest episodes or more content from the interesting guests and topics.
- S_A_P 6y agoAgreed. Most of what he talks about is timely/topical. I suspect maybe in 5-10 more years it could get interesting again.
- ambicapter 6y agoReally? If a guest I'm interested in did an interview two years ago and none since, I don't really have a choice, I'm going to listen to that interview.
- oblio 6y agoIf Reddit, HN and similar sites are any indication, you're right. Views, clicks, comments, etc., fall of a cliff for content older than N units of time.
- cableshaft 6y agoThe ones with Duncan Trussell are highly rewatchable if you like him. He's always talking about philosophy and mysticism and other crazy shit he reads/talks about with others on his podcast. He just teamed up with the creator of Adventure Time to animate some of his podcasts for a show called The Midnight Gospel on Netflix, so they age pretty well.
- psweber 6y agoIs the back catalog valuable without a system like YouTube's? There are countless small clips of the Joe Rogan show that are constantly recommended by the algorithm. Is there any indication that Spotify is capable of replacing that?
- simlevesque 6y agoThe clips stay on YouTube.