All Podcast Roads Lead to Video

So an episode of The Vergecast looked at the past, present, and future of podcasting, and host David Pierce (who was recording from his car ala the style of many early podcasters) talked to James Cridland about what a podcast even is and what on earth we should do about YouTube. I really liked James’ definition (“on demand audio-first content, some... See more

Podcasting is the printing press for the spoken word,. The revolution that Gutenberg unleashed when he invented the printing press, may have taken 40, 50 years, 60 years, 100 years to gain steam, even goes faster now, but that is exactly what podcasting is. Everybody's like, "Oh, we have too many podcasts." That's like saying you have too many movi... See more

I can see a similar future for podcasts: Spotify, if they are successful, may end up being the biggest player, but that doesn’t mean new and different business models that directly link suppliers and consumers won’t emerge. It will, in other words, look like everything else touched by the Internet: very large winners on one end, and small niche win... See more