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Why there aren’t 2M podcasts
- chrisseaton 6y agoThat's the strangest way to show a histogram I've ever seen. Sort of cumulative in both directions at the same time.
- empiko 6y agoMy thoughts exactly. There are articles that can be summarized in few paragraphs, but this is a whole article with infographics included that can be summarized with a single graph.
- timerol 6y agoThis is a long and poorly written article to point out that the 2M podcasts on Apple Podcast follow a power law. 26% of podcasts have only produced one episode, 37% have produced 2 or fewer episodes, 44% have produced 3 or fewer episodes. Then the article fails to do math for a bit. 44% of podcasts producing 3 or fewer episodes means 56% did 4 or more. So 880k have 3 or fewer, 1.12 M have 4 or more. But the article mixes that up: > 44% of all podcasts have produced three or fewer episodes. > If a 'real podcast' is a series of at least four episodes, that effectively reduces the total of two million podcasts to 880,000.
- pratio 6y agoThank you for pointing that out and I agree, it is a poorly written article
- probably_wrong 6y agoOff topic: "subscribe" popups are annoying enough as they are, but this is the first time one of them asks me to solve a captcha before I'm granted the privilege of receiving their emails.
- stnmtn 6y agoWeird, I would think that if were writing something like that I would be completely fine with bots filling up the list because it would make the numbers look better
- minikites 6y agoI wonder if these percentages hold for other types of "low-barrier to entry" media (e.g. Bandcamp/SoundCloud musicians, YouTube channels)?
- pratio 6y agoTo summarize, The article asks the question, Why there really aren’t 2 million podcasts? and goes on to say, 1/4th of all podcasts are out of business, or more likely, were never really in it. The rest of it is filled with incoherent bullet points? it has been difficult to follow. Honestly, this feels like someone was taking notes on a napkin about an article that they'd wish to write and what's with the author's picture and name in an image? There are better ways to stop scalpers to get an email address. I don't want to be too harsh here but the data sources, graphs and charts are of poor quality.
- tracybrinkmann 6y agotaking notes on a napkin what a great analogy :D taking notes on a napkin say AFTER a few drinks ;)
- readflaggedcomm 6y agoInactive isn't not "real", it's just a slow or aborted attempt. The Podcastindex.org site shows over 400k podcasts updated in the last two months out of a total of 2.5m (they do some de-duplication, discussed in their own podcast).
- mooneater 6y agoI think 700k (or even 400k+ as estimated in these comments) is still huge
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- reaperducer 6y agoHonestly, we're lucky there aren't 2M podcasts. I used to work in radio, and for many years of that part of my job was to listen to all of the resume tapes that potential talk show hosts and documentarians sent in. (A couple of times forcibly, barging past the receptionist and insisting everyone listen to their tape before being escorted out.) The bottom line is that while almost everyone thinks they have an important story to tell, very few people really do have anything compelling to say. It's important to them, but isn't all that interesting to the rest of the world. And for those few people in the world with something truly interesting or important to say, even fewer are actually good storytellers. They'd be better off writing their compelling stories for other people to voice, which is what a lot of professional podcasts do. The internet made it easier for everyone to have an equal voice. But all that did was teach us that not everyone is worth listening to, so we mostly just hear the loudest voices.
- paulpauper 6y agoeveryone is complaining in the comments about this article yet it got to the font page somehow ..hmmm..