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The data only include publicly accessible RSS-based podcasts, which is a very narrow definition of podcasts. There are exclusive "podcasts" on Spotify that are
by wenbin 6y ago
The data only include publicly accessible RSS-based podcasts, which is a very narrow definition of podcasts.
There are exclusive "podcasts" on Spotify that are not publicly accessible and not distributed via rss.
There are other forms of spoken audio contents that are publicly accessible but not distributed via rss.
Open RSS-based podcast ecosystem is less developed outside US, for countries with comparable (or larger) population.
There are many walled garden audio platforms in countries like China. For example, probably most of you haven't heard of Lizhi FM [0], a "podcasting" platform from China that just went public early this year. Most of its audio contents are not distributed via RSS.
[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783407/000119312519276047/d762894df1.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1783407/000119312519...
- WoodenChair 6y agoEven if all of what you wrote is true, in the Listener Notes statistics the US still makes up 10X as many as the next largest country (~800,000 vs 80,000), and would be the highest per capita by a significant margin of any large country. Assuming it's not a data problem (which I think is actually likely due to hosting), let me offer an unpopular possibility—Americans are just the most productive creatives on Earth. A culture full of side hustle.
- scarface74 6y agoThere are exclusive "podcasts" on Spotify that are not publicly accessible and not distributed via rss. An audio program that isn’t published via an RSS feed is no more a podcast than the proprietary pages that AOL use to host are “web pages.”