podcasts: past, present and future
According to an advertising agency I consulted, for example, a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a year in income. Earning a middle-class salary by talking through a digital microphone to a fiercely loyal band of supporters around the w... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
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
“I think of those Vanity Fair days as the dinosaur days. They were the great days of Condé Nast, and they were so much fun. It wasn't just about the expense accounts, it was about the freedom and joy of only having to really think about the content, the hiring of the writers, how your cover was going to look, and what was going to be in the magazin... See more
Tina Brown on intellectual serendipity, the Elon Musk era and why "magazines are mostly done"
Finding extraordinary stories on park benches
Tom Rosenthal wanders London's parks with a simple mission: find someone sitting alone on a bench and ask if they'll chat for his podcast, his podcast "Strangers on a Bench." He keeps his guests anonymous - no names, no workplaces. Listening to a few episodes hammered home the realization that there's n... See more
Tom Rosenthal wanders London's parks with a simple mission: find someone sitting alone on a bench and ask if they'll chat for his podcast, his podcast "Strangers on a Bench." He keeps his guests anonymous - no names, no workplaces. Listening to a few episodes hammered home the realization that there's n... See more
Best TV streamer/Save Wisdom/Portable $50 Record Player
It would be too easy to blame this entirely on podcasts, so I won’t. I’m going to blame it mostly on podcasts, partly on audiobooks and partly on devices that allowed you to carry TV round the house with you.
Lauren Bravo • Hey Mr DJ, put a podcast on
did podcasts kill music?
- The live stream for The Rest is Politics ▸ during the presidential election saw 2mn views over an 18-hour period. The podcast got an additional 600,000 downloads during that time. You can catch up with part one and part two; and on Spotify. It was produced by Dizplai at Spotify’s NYC studios.
Podcast ads are “too difficult to buy”
The podcast Kiln, for example, is an "audio horror story" featuring Scandinavian mythological creatures, but it’s geo-restricted: you can only listen to it in certain Swedish forests.
