The main takeaway points are that: podcasting is booming recently, like a lot of social media has been. Similar to social media, in the early days of Facebook and Myspace, you would just go onto a friend’s page to see how cool it looked or poke them or post on their wall. Now, it’s all professional photographs and sponsored posts for anyone with a decent following. Podcasting is following a similar route: in the early days, it was a bunch of people just talking about stuff, kind of amateur, nothing really professionally done. Since then, production quality has gone up significantly, with people having easy access to editing software and studio-quality microphones. Now, the market is also very saturated with different types of podcasts, and in order to appeal to people they generally have to have good production quality and something worth listening to, whether it be professional advice or some sort of comedy. In order to avoid “podfade,” our group would have two choices: either never start a podcast (which we can’t do anymore) or to keep the same podcast going. With the format of our podcast, since we interview different people about different aspects of the pandemic, we would have quite a few stories to cover before running out of content.
Three True-False Statements
- Between 2014 and 2019, the number of podcast listeneres nearly tripled.
- Spotify is trying to catch up to Apple in the podcasts ecosystem by acquiring high-profile podcast networks, like Joe Rogan or The Ringer
- It is easy to start a podcast and get listeners.