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The number of new podcasts launched fell by nearly 80% between 2020 and 2022
- dokem 4y agoI’m failing to think of a less important statistic.
- jtokoph 4y agoBut are they including YouTube? Most of the podcasts I listen to or watch are on YouTube
- giuliomagnifico 4y agoAre they podcast? I would call them informative videos if they are YouTube but they don’t publish them as an audio podcast.
- 1123581321 4y agoHighly produced, short run podcasts that are not tied to another property are too expensive and too risky as hits were increasingly far from guaranteed. There was only a brief window when large numbers of listeners were willing to try all of them. The last season of Serial covered some of these issues at Gimlet leading up to the Spotify sale; the rest of the market took longer to catch on, bet hard on TV license deals or simply had VC money to burn through first.
- hoppyhoppy2 4y agoPreviously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34484986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34484986 2 days ago
- akeck 4y agoThe McSweeney's author from this morning's front page article has a take: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/baby-shoes-never-worn-the-twenty-episode-podcast https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/baby-shoes-never-worn-th...