Unlocking the Potential of Fiction Podcasts: A Call to Podcast App Developers
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Unlocking the Potential of Fiction Podcasts: A Call to Podcast App Developers
three themes will emerge: innovation in the content format, the evolution of the business model, and the growing ubiquity of audio.
Andrew Chen • The Next Phase of Social? Listen Closely | Andreessen Horowitz
Before I ever heard of Breaker, I wanted someone to build a “socially-sorted” podcast app that would help me listen to a wider variety of shows based on episode-level recommendations from friends
Nathan Baschez • A Post-Mortem for Social Podcast Discovery
I’m more optimistic about paid audio content that’s differentiated from typical podcast concepts — and that can be successful on a smaller scale.
Dan Frommer • Subscription podcasting is not a breakout success
Will podcasts go away?
In a world where every podcast includes video, every platform supports video, and video-first shows are more engaging for users (and therefore more valuable for creators), it’s fair to wonder if people will stop making “podcasts” as we know them today. Today a podcast is an episode of audio content featuring people talking. T... See more
In a world where every podcast includes video, every platform supports video, and video-first shows are more engaging for users (and therefore more valuable for creators), it’s fair to wonder if people will stop making “podcasts” as we know them today. Today a podcast is an episode of audio content featuring people talking. T... See more
Michael Mignano • All Podcast Roads Lead to Video
Every assumption about the purpose of fiction so far—opiate for the democratic masses, healthy snack, empathy dumbbells, propaganda viruses that can infect for good or evil--has rested on the same assumption: fiction must do something; it must demonstrate value.